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Tech Giant Clarifies: Pausing 'Location History' Alone Won't Stop All TrackingA lawsuit accuses Google of "the surreptitious location tracking of millions of mobile phone users." The legal action...

After a report said Google tracks users even when they opt out, the company is under fire from activists and has been slapped with a lawsuit.

Google was in the news last week for a misleading claim that "with Location History off, the places you go are no longer stored," which is not true. Now, the search engine giant is once again in...

Researchers have identified a number of online user tracking techniques that can’t be blocked by browsers’ built-in anti-tracking defenses and existing anti-tracking and ad-blocking extensions....

Internet boxes blab coordinates on login pages Black Hat If you want to avoid the cops, or watch deliveries and call-outs by trucks and another vehicles in real-time, well, there's potentially not...

For 2 years, welfare investigators used a huge database of automated license plate reader images to sniff out fraud, without audit or policy.

Web Security says there's nothing nefarious to its URL collection A security plug-in for the Firefox browser is under fire after users discovered it was collecting and uploading their online activity.…

Shock! It appears Google can track the location of anyone using some of its apps on Android or iPhone even when they’ve told it not to.

Google is tracking you, even if you turn off tracking: Google says that will prevent the company from remembering where you've been. Google's support page on the subject states: "You can turn off...

With the rise of the industrial internet of things comes a far broader attack surface in the manufacturing sector. Chris Morales of Vectra outlines findings of a new report on cyberattack trends...