Turning off GPS doesn’t completely hide your location. Google can still estimate where you are using Wi-Fi, mobile towers, ...

India's government is reviewing a telecom industry proposal to force smartphone firms to enable satellite location tracking ...

After Google made “geofence” data warrants on its users technically infeasible, feds are still making similar demands on telecoms giants, even if the location data is, by law enforcement’s own ...

In today's day and age, it can feel almost impossible to keep anything private, such as your whereabouts, and we're often at the mercy of companies to take actionable steps to do so. To that end, ...

Location history data in Google Maps will soon be stored directly on user devices. Google itself will no longer have access to the data. This also means law enforcement won't be able to request it ...

A man is shot dead on an empty street. There are no cameras, no witnesses. Could a detective just Google who was there when the fatal shot was fired? In some ways, yes. For the past several years, law ...

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