For many years, the use of location data emanating from our mobile devices has been viewed in the context of privacy and civil liberties trade-offs. Many people have agreed to trade data showing where ...

You can change your primary location on Yelp to customize your profile as well as search results for events in your area.

(StudyFinds.org) – Mobile phones give users a reassuring button that tells them they can keep apps and companies from tracking their location. Unfortunately, researchers at the University of Southern ...

The Federal Trade Commission sued an app analytics company on Monday for selling cell phone location data that the agency said could be used to track people to sensitive locations like abortion ...

The state Senate approved a "first-in-the-nation" ban on the sale of cellphone location data as part of a sweeping electric ...

In March 2020, federal officials declared the COVID-19 outbreak a national emergency. Around the same time, most states implemented stay-at-home advisories - to different degrees and at different ...

Right now, there is a good chance your phone is tracking your location -- even with GPS services turned off. That's because, to receive service, our phones reveal personal identifiers to cell towers ...