State legislatures are weighing a wave of protections for sensitive geolocation data that would redefine comprehensive ...

Gravy tracked some people going into government buildings, health clinics, places of worship and other sensitive locations, the FTC said. Russian cybercriminals have hacked one of the largest ...

The Federal Trade Commission’s December 2024 crackdown on three major data brokers exposed how location data from roughly ...

Smartphone apps secretly track seniors' daily routines through hidden permissions, selling location data to brokers who map ...

A misconfiguration in a cloud environment made data from hundreds of thousands of Volkswagen AG vehicles available online, multiple publications reported today. The issue was brought to the attention ...

Journalists in Europe found it was “easy” to spy on top European Union officials using commercially obtained location histories sold by data brokers, despite the continent having some of the strongest ...

A South Korean regulator has said that Apple collected user location data without consent, and fined the company 210 million won (around $153k) for a privacy violation. Apple was one of 188 companies ...

Geoff Michener is the CEO of dataplor, a startup focused on helping companies succeed abroad through high quality geospatial data. In April 2024, California's new minimum wage law for fast food ...

Amid the ongoing evolution of digital privacy laws, one California proposal is drawing heightened attention from legal scholars, technologists, and privacy advocates. Assembly Bill 1355, while ...

States are looking at how grocery stores, hotel chains, and retailers are using personal consumer information—from browsing history to location data—to dictate prices.

At this point, unless you’ve been living under a digital rock, everyone knows that Apple is collecting data from your iPhone. But why are they doing it? (More: How to Encrypt Your iPhone’s Location ...