Law enforcement officials frequently draw virtual fences around areas of interest and require Google to identify every cellphone in the area using cell location history. Dubbed a “geofence search,” ...

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The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that people have an expectation of privacy from the government as their mobile devices track them throughout their daily activities, even when that information is ...

AT&T and Verizon lost an attempt to overturn fines for selling users’ real-time location data without consent, as the Supreme Court ruled today that the Federal Communications Commission process for ...

U.S. service members deployed overseas have been targeted or surveilled using commercially available location data, federal lawmakers said in a Thursday letter to the Pentagon demanding stronger ...

U.S. Central Command said it had “received multiple threat reports concerning adversary exploitation of commercial location data." (DOD) U.S. forces deployed to war zones have been targeted using ...

The FTC has reached a proposed settlement with data broker Kochava and its subsidiary, Collective Data Solutions, that would bar them from selling sensitive location data without consumers’ explicit ...

Europe’s data center markets need more energy. Demand for energy to power the data centers is projected to grow from 10 gigawatts in 2024 to 35 gigawatts by 2030. The only place on the Continent with ...

Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger on Monday signed a privacy law that will prohibit businesses from selling data that can pinpoint people's locations within a 1,750-foot radius. The measure (SB 338 ...

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We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The FBI has confirmed to the Senate it is once again buying data which can be used to track the locations of US citizens. That may have ...

The FBI is once again buying location data on Americans, confirming a surveillance method that had largely faded from public view. During a Senate hearing this week, Director Kash Patel said the ...