Security News

Google Helps Police Identify Devices Close to Crime Scenes Using Location Data
2019-04-15 12:03

It's no secret that Google tracks you everywhere, even when you keep Google's Location History feature disabled. As revealed by an Associated Press investigation in 2018, other Google apps like...

Family tracking app spilled pics, names and real-time location data
2019-03-26 10:37

A journalist/researcher team got a sensitive database taken down after the vendor responsible failed to acknowledge a problem.

What was that P word? Ah. Privacy. Yes, we'll think about privacy, says FCC mulling cellphone location data overhaul
2019-03-15 20:57

Commissioners still doing their best to ignore bounty hunter stalking scandal Analysis America's comms regulator has finally pinky-promised to at least consider people's privacy when it looks into...

US lawmakers furious (again) as mobile networks caught (again) selling your emergency location data to bounty hunters (again)
2019-02-08 00:00

Privacy advocates stunned that explicit rules ignored, blame head of FCC US lawmakers have again called for an investigation into mobile companies after it emerged that they have been selling...

EU Recalls Children’s Smartwatch That Leaks Location Data
2019-02-05 15:15

The children's smartwatch allows bad actors to track their location and communicate with them, according to the alert.

Bicycle-riding hitman convicted with Garmin GPS watch location data
2019-01-22 11:28

Location data extracted from the athletic hitman's Garmin GPS watch and TomTom sat nav led to his conviction in two gangland murders.

Senator Wyden goes ballistic after US telcos caught selling people's location data yet again
2019-01-08 19:04

Rights warrior ticked off after yet another report of whereabouts being flogged to dodgy geezers US Senator Ron Wyden is renewing his calls for legislation banning the sale of people's private...

LA sues The Weather Channel over selling users’ location data
2019-01-08 11:00

The app is accused of being a “location data company powered by weather” and profiting from users' data without being upfront about it.

Stormy times ahead for IBM-owned Weather Channel app: LA sues over location data slurp
2019-01-04 21:02

'Privacy in the digital age is one of the most fundamental issues' says city attorney The Weather Channel app duped users into providing location data that the company then sold for advertising...

Phones are selling location data from “trusted” apps
2018-12-12 11:55

Data brokers are tracking 200 million mobile devices in the US, updating locations up to 14,000 times a day, the New York Times has found.