Spare a thought, if you will, for the digital advertisers who have grown dependent on knowing your exact whereabouts at any instant. New information shows that the biggest source for all this location ...

An international group of researchers has developed an algorithmic tool that uses Twitter to automatically predict exactly where you live in a matter of minutes, with more than 90 percent accuracy. It ...

Apple has updated its privacy policy to include location-based services. In a nutshell, Apple and partners may "collect, use, and share precise location data, including the real-time geographic ...

In the wake of News of the World’s phone-hacking scandal, we’re all considering the price that technology takes on our privacy. It isn’t a new development, nor is it all that surprising ethical ...

Sharing your location has always carried some risk, but a recent survey conducted by Microsoft shows that less than half of the sample group had ever used it. Josh Lowensohn Former Senior Writer Josh ...

On Wednesday, Facebook introduced a new privacy setting for Android users. Previously, if you had Location History turned on, the app could track you in the background. In other words, even if you ...

Following another year of concerted activity in state capitals around the country, 18 states now require law enforcement to get a probable cause warrant before obtaining people’s cell phone location ...

The three most important keys to retail success are also the most important ones to your privacy in the 21st century. Which is why you should be keeping a watchful eye on all those big corporations ...

The Apple iPhone 11 Pro and possibly the iPhone 11 appear to be suffering from a mysterious location privacy flaw. The issue was discovered by security researcher Brian Krebs, who found that Apple’s ...

iPhone and iPad owners will have much more fine-grained control over their location privacy in iOS 8 thanks to new Location Services options that allow users to determine exactly when — and if — an ...