Smartphone owners who granted “always allow” location access to a weather widget or prayer-time app may have unknowingly fed their precise coordinates to a commercial data broker that sold the ...

Millions of smartphone users assume that closing an app stops it from watching where they go. Federal regulators have shown that assumption is wrong. In January 2024, the Federal Trade Commission ...

Imagine if a data broker knows your phone is on a nightstand next to another phone six nights a week and across town on the seventh night. That data broker also knows everywhere you go and how long ...

Should family members track each other's location? A therapist explains the risks, trust issues, and privacy concerns.

There’s no such thing as absolute privacy or absolute security when it comes to electronic information. The best way to keep something secret is not to capture and store it in the first place. And ...

Apple’s decision to be much more proactive in alerting users to background location tracking in iOS 13 has resulted in a 68% drop in the location data collected by apps. The issue has also seen ...

Google has worked its way into virtually every aspect of your life, and the search giant's network of interrelated apps and services capture, share, and rely on a great deal of personal information ...

The latest version of iOS offers some convenient ways to manage location tracking by apps. Tracking your location via your mobile device is something many apps and websites attempt to do. Developers, ...

Last year, on the car ride home after a teary parting from my eldest kid in a University of Maryland parking lot, I pulled out my phone and added a new “location” to my Life360 settings. “Sofia’s dorm ...