Slashdot Items Tagged "location"

Date / Time Story
Friday February 09, 2024 @05:32PM Security Flaw In a Popular Smart Helmet Allowed Silent Location Tracking
Thursday January 11, 2024 @02:21PM A Geofence Warrant Typo Cast a Location Dragnet Spanning Two Miles Over San Francisco
Wednesday December 13, 2023 @07:40PM Low-Frequency Sound Can Reveal That a Tornado Is On Its Way
Wednesday December 13, 2023 @07:30PM Google Maps Ditches Cloud-Based Location History
Thursday October 05, 2023 @06:08PM ICE, CBP, Secret Service All Illegally Used Smartphone Location Data
Friday September 15, 2023 @03:38PM Google To Pay $155 Million In Settlements Over Location Tracking
Thursday July 27, 2023 @03:57PM Android Phones Can Now Tell You If There's an AirTag Following You
Monday July 17, 2023 @08:51PM FBI Used Nintendo Switch To Locate Abducted Child
Friday March 10, 2023 @06:04PM FBI Admits It Bought US Location Data
Tuesday January 17, 2023 @05:30PM Google Reportedly Working On 'Grogu' Tracker To Compete With Apple's AirTags
Tuesday January 10, 2023 @11:03AM Flats for sale in Kokapet hyderabad at a Prime location
Friday January 06, 2023 @12:02PM The Importance of a Good Location in Real Estate Investment
Monday January 02, 2023 @12:36PM Google to Pay $29.5 Million to Settle Lawsuits Over User Location Tracking
Thursday December 22, 2022 @01:35PM 2022 fifa world cup location
Thursday December 15, 2022 @11:28AM What is Prime Location Public Housing Model ?
Tuesday December 13, 2022 @12:21PM How to Link Google My Business and Google Ads Using Location Extensions
Tuesday November 29, 2022 @01:57PM Geocoding & Location Intelligence
Thursday November 17, 2022 @05:26PM Smartphone Location Tracking
Friday October 21, 2022 @10:16AM ByteDance Planned to Use TikTok to Monitor Physical Location of US Citizens
Friday October 21, 2022 @03:29AM TikTok Parent ByteDance Planned to Monitor the Physical Location of Americans
Monday August 08, 2022 @05:10PM A Phone Carrier That Doesn't Track Your Browsing Or Location
Monday July 18, 2022 @04:07PM Homeland Security Records Show 'Shocking' Use of Phone Data, ACLU Says
Friday June 03, 2022 @04:22PM Google Is Killing Location-Based Reminders
Thursday May 12, 2022 @05:00PM Anonymous Social Media App Yik Yak Exposed Users' Precise Locations
Monday May 09, 2022 @05:58PM Facebook To Discontinue 'Nearby Friends' and Other Location-Based Features
Monday May 02, 2022 @05:10PM Grindr User Data Was Sold Through Ad Networks
Friday April 15, 2022 @05:17PM Class-Action Lawsuit Targets Company That Harvests Location Data From 50 Million
Monday January 24, 2022 @05:27PM Google Gets Hit With a New Lawsuit Over 'Deceptive' Location Tracking
Friday December 03, 2021 @06:08PM Apple AirTags Being Used By Thieves To Track High-End Cars To Steal
Friday June 11, 2021 @04:23PM Potential Sites For UK's First Prototype Fusion Power Plant Identified
Friday January 22, 2021 @05:58PM Intelligence Analysts Use US Smartphone Location Data Without Warrants, Memo Says
Tuesday January 05, 2021 @11:19PM Telegram Feature Exposes Your Precise Address To Hackers
Tuesday October 06, 2020 @04:09PM The IRS Is Being Investigated For Using Location Data Without a Warrant
Thursday September 03, 2020 @04:00PM Private Intel Firm Buys Location Data To Track People To Their 'Doorstep'
Wednesday August 26, 2020 @10:28AM Unredacted Suit Shows Google's Own Engineers Confused By Privacy Settings
Monday August 17, 2020 @08:40PM Secret Service Paid To Get Americans' Location Data Without a Warrant, Documents Show
Monday July 20, 2020 @06:37PM Google Promises Privacy With Virus App But Can Still Collection Location Data
Friday June 26, 2020 @04:35PM Mobilewalla Used Cellphone Data To Estimate the Demographics of Protesters
Wednesday June 24, 2020 @04:30PM Google Says It Will Keep Less Browser History and Location Data By Default
Friday June 19, 2020 @04:16PM IRS Used Cellphone Location Data To Try To Find Suspects
Tuesday June 16, 2020 @07:18PM 'Hey Siri, I'm Getting Pulled Over': iPhone Feature Will Record Police Interaction, Send Location
Tuesday June 02, 2020 @05:42PM Apple Warns Looters With Stolen iPhones: You Are Being Tracked
Friday May 22, 2020 @03:31PM Just Turning Your Phone On Qualifies As Searching It, Court Rules
Monday May 11, 2020 @04:51PM Slack Now Strips Location Data From Images
Monday May 04, 2020 @09:28PM Apple, Google Ban Use of Location Tracking in Contact Tracing Apps
Friday April 03, 2020 @10:25AM Google Is Publishing Location Data From 131 Countries To Show How Coronavirus Lockdowns Are Working
Wednesday March 25, 2020 @12:51PM Singapore Government To Make Its Contact-Tracing App Freely Available To Developers Worldwide
Friday February 21, 2020 @01:30PM Google To Put a Muzzle on Android Apps Accessing Location Data in the Background
Thursday February 20, 2020 @10:14PM New Mexico AG Sues Google For Allegedly Collecting Location Data, Contact Lists From Students
Tuesday February 04, 2020 @06:18PM Ireland's Data Privacy Watchdog Opens Probes Into Google, Tinder
Tuesday January 28, 2020 @06:47PM US Colleges Are Trying To Install Location Tracking Apps On Students' Phones
Friday January 24, 2020 @02:32PM Air-Traffic Control Is in the Midst of a Major Change
Wednesday December 18, 2019 @05:56PM Facebook Fails To Convince Lawmakers It Needs To Track Your Location At All Times
Friday December 13, 2019 @12:49PM City Planners Zero in on Cyclists Through Exercise App
Thursday December 12, 2019 @05:39PM Google Hands Feds 1,500 Phone Locations In Unprecedented 'Geofence' Search
Monday November 25, 2019 @06:29PM Smartphone Videos Can Now Be Analyzed To Locate a Shooter
Tuesday November 19, 2019 @01:42PM Senators Ask Zuckerberg To Explain Why Facebook Still Tracks Users' Location Even When They Have Asked it Not To
Thursday September 19, 2019 @04:35PM AT&T Says Customers Can't Sue the Company For Selling Location Data To Bounty Hunters
Thursday September 12, 2019 @02:11PM Spotify Wants To Know Where You Live and Will Be Checking In
Thursday August 29, 2019 @02:51PM Ten Years On, Foursquare Is Now Checking In to You
Friday August 16, 2019 @02:37PM What3Words: The App That Can Save Your Life
Thursday July 18, 2019 @05:49PM EFF Hits AT&T With Class-Action Lawsuit For Selling Customers' Location To Bounty Hunters
Tuesday July 09, 2019 @06:12PM T-Mobile Says It Can't Be Sued By Users Because of Forced-Arbitration Clause
Friday June 28, 2019 @03:39PM Technology is Eroding the Ability To Move Around the Physical World Anonymously
Wednesday June 26, 2019 @01:30PM Google Now Allows Users To Auto-Delete Their Location History
Wednesday June 19, 2019 @05:11PM Twitter Will Remove Precise Location Tagging In Tweets, Citing Lack of Use
Monday May 06, 2019 @04:03PM Refunds For 300 Million Phone Users Sought In Lawsuits Over Location-Data Sales
Wednesday May 01, 2019 @01:17PM Google To Roll Out Auto-Delete Controls For Location History and Activity Data
Thursday April 25, 2019 @04:35PM LG Halts Phone Manufacturing In South Korea For 2019, Relocating To Vietnam
Wednesday April 24, 2019 @06:22PM Amazon's Alexa Team Can Access Users' Home Addresses
Wednesday April 24, 2019 @01:10PM Hacker Can Monitor Cars And Kill Their Engines After Breaking Into GPS Tracking Apps
Monday April 15, 2019 @06:43PM TicTocTrack Smartwatch Flaws Can Be Abused To Track Kids
Friday April 12, 2019 @04:51PM Russia Fines Facebook $50 For Failing To Comply With Local Data Privacy Law
Thursday March 21, 2019 @05:46PM The Majority of Scooters in LA Are Going To Share Your Location With the City
Monday March 18, 2019 @05:10PM Uber Used Secret Spyware To Try To Crush Australian Startup GoCatch
Tuesday March 12, 2019 @07:46PM You May Have Forgotten Foursquare, But It Didn't Forget You
Saturday February 09, 2019 @12:48AM Tesla Hacker Launches Open-Source Project 'FreedomEV' To Run On Rooted Teslas, Bring New Wi-Fi Hotspot and Anti-Tracking Features
Wednesday February 06, 2019 @10:48PM NYPD To Google: Stop Revealing the Location of Police Checkpoints
Monday January 28, 2019 @08:50PM Google's Sidewalk Labs Plans To Sell Location Data On Millions of Cellphones
Tuesday January 15, 2019 @06:50PM Apple Maps Gooses DuckDuckGo In Search Privacy Partnership
Wednesday January 09, 2019 @05:49PM Senators Call On FCC To Investigate Carriers Selling Location Data To Bounty Hunters
Tuesday December 11, 2018 @03:29AM Facebook Filed a Patent To Calculate Your Future Location
Monday December 10, 2018 @08:56AM Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They're Not Keeping It Secret
Friday November 30, 2018 @08:19PM Automakers Give the Chinese Government Access To Location Data of Electric Cars
Wednesday November 21, 2018 @04:08PM Google's Find My Device Tool Can Now Map Out Exactly Where You Left Your Phone Inside Some Buildings
Monday November 19, 2018 @09:30PM NASA Chooses the Landing Site For Its Mars 2020 Rover Mission
Tuesday November 13, 2018 @11:15AM Amazon Picks New York, Northern Virginia For HQ2 [Update: Confirmed]
Sunday November 11, 2018 @06:09PM What Your Phone is Telling Wall Street
Saturday October 06, 2018 @12:34AM Instagram Tests Sharing Your Location History With Facebook
Monday September 10, 2018 @08:53PM Free Municipal Wi-Fi May Be the Next Front In the War Against Privacy
Saturday September 08, 2018 @11:08PM Facebook Chooses Singapore For $1 Billion Data Center
Thursday August 30, 2018 @06:26PM Google Bought Mastercard Data To Link Online Ads To Store Purchases, Says Report
Monday August 20, 2018 @05:07PM Man Sues Over Google's 'Location History' Fiasco, Case Could Affect Millions
Sunday August 19, 2018 @06:19PM Google Is Poised To Open Its First Permanent Retail Store
Monday August 06, 2018 @10:47PM Pentagon Restricts Use of Location-Logging Fitness Trackers
Monday June 18, 2018 @08:08PM iOS 12 Will Automatically Share Your iPhone Location With 911 Centers
Friday May 18, 2018 @08:49PM FCC Investigating LocationSmart Over Phone-Tracking Flaw
Thursday May 17, 2018 @02:25PM Faster Flights Are Coming With New Satellite Tracking Technology
Wednesday May 16, 2018 @06:56PM NASA Says Humans Are Causing Massive Changes In Location of Water Around the World
Monday May 14, 2018 @08:47PM Should the FTC Investigate Google's Location Data Collection?
Wednesday April 25, 2018 @06:35PM Amazon Will Now Deliver Packages To the Trunk of Your Car
Sunday April 22, 2018 @02:28PM Who Has More of Your Personal Data Than Facebook? Try Google
Monday April 02, 2018 @05:38PM Gay Dating App Grindr Is Letting Other Companies See User HIV Status, Location Data
Tuesday March 13, 2018 @07:14PM Google's New 'Plus Codes' Are An Open Source, Global Alternative To Street Addresses
Monday March 12, 2018 @03:59PM University of Arizona Tracks Student ID Card Swipes To Detect Who Might Drop Out
Tuesday March 06, 2018 @12:05AM MoviePass CEO Proudly Says App Tracks Your Location Before, After Movies
Sunday February 18, 2018 @02:43AM Google is Making it Easier For 911 To Find You in an Emergency
Tuesday February 06, 2018 @04:21PM A Flaw In Hotspot Shield Can Expose VPN Users, Locations
Friday February 02, 2018 @01:40AM DuckDuckGo CEO: 'Google and Facebook Are Watching Our Every Move Online. It's Time To Make Them Stop'
Thursday February 01, 2018 @05:27PM Amazon Patents Wristbands Designed To Track and Steer Employees' Movements
Monday January 29, 2018 @05:16PM Pentagon Reviews GPS Policies After Fitness Trackers Reveal Locations
Thursday January 25, 2018 @06:30PM Former Employees Say Lyft Staffers Spied On Passengers
Thursday January 18, 2018 @06:17PM Amazon Picks 20 Finalists For 'HQ2' Second Headquarters Location
Wednesday January 03, 2018 @05:22PM 2 Years Later, Security Holes Linger In GPS Services Used By Millions of Devices
Monday December 18, 2017 @09:12PM Venezuela Will Force Bitcoin Miners To Register With the Government
Friday December 01, 2017 @04:34PM Homeland Security Claims DJI Drones Are Spying For China
Thursday November 30, 2017 @06:15PM Australian Man Uses Snack Bags As Faraday Cage To Block Tracking By Employer
Tuesday November 28, 2017 @06:39PM A Supreme Court Case This Week Could Change US Digital Privacy Standards
Friday September 22, 2017 @04:55PM Super-Accurate GPS Chips Coming To Smartphones In 2018
Monday September 11, 2017 @05:46PM The New Corporate Recruitment Pool: Workers In Dead-End Jobs
Friday September 08, 2017 @04:09PM UN Aviation Agency To Call For Global Drone Registry
Wednesday August 30, 2017 @06:00PM Uber Says It'll Stop Tracking Riders After They're Dropped Off
Thursday August 10, 2017 @12:58PM Apple Refuses To Enable iPhone Emergency Settings that Could Save Countless Lives
Wednesday June 21, 2017 @02:00PM Snapchat's New Snap Map Lets You Share Your Location With Friends
Thursday June 15, 2017 @10:32PM Amazon Granted a Patent That Prevents In-Store Shoppers From Online Price Checking
Monday June 12, 2017 @06:45PM Hackers Can Spoof Phone Numbers, Track Users Via 4G VoLTE Mobile Technology
Tuesday April 25, 2017 @04:18PM EU Lawmakers Include Spotify and iTunes In Geoblocking Ban
Friday April 21, 2017 @03:53PM LinkedIn Apologizes For Trying To Connect Everyone In Real Life
Tuesday April 18, 2017 @04:42PM Malaysia Air Is First Airline To Track Fleet With Satellites
Monday March 20, 2017 @04:00PM Google Maps Lets You Record Your Parking Location, Time Left At the Meter
Monday March 06, 2017 @07:06PM Poachers Are Trying To Hack Animal Tracking Systems
Tuesday February 21, 2017 @04:20PM UPS Develops 'Rolling Warehouse' System In Which Drones Are Launched From Atop Trucks
Thursday February 02, 2017 @07:01PM Windows DRM-Protected Files Used To Decloak Tor Browser Users
Tuesday January 24, 2017 @04:11PM Apple Is Releasing a Find My AirPods Feature
Tuesday December 27, 2016 @07:56PM Amazon Patents System To Defend Drones Against Hackers, Jammers and Arrows
Monday December 26, 2016 @09:09AM Uber Says App Doesn't Keep Track of Location; iOS Maps Extension to Blame
Monday December 19, 2016 @04:50PM Filmmaker Installed Security Software On a Decoy Phone To Spy On Smartphone Thieves
Wednesday November 30, 2016 @04:42PM Uber Wants To Track Your Location Even When You're Not Using the App, Here's Why
Thursday November 17, 2016 @07:50PM ESA Launches Four Galileo Satellites
Tuesday November 15, 2016 @05:36PM DJI Unveils Phantom 4 Pro and Inspire 2 Drones
Tuesday November 01, 2016 @04:07PM Montreal Police Monitored iPhone of La Presse Journalist Patrick Lagace
Saturday October 22, 2016 @12:33AM Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban On Personally Identifiable Web Tracking
Tuesday October 18, 2016 @07:00PM CIA-Backed Surveillance Tool 'Geofeedia' Was Marketed To Public Schools
Wednesday September 28, 2016 @04:52PM Verizon Technician Is Accused of Selling Customers' Call Records and Location Data To Private Investigator
Thursday September 22, 2016 @02:19PM Cops Are Raiding Homes of Innocent People Based Only On IP Addresses
Tuesday September 13, 2016 @12:34PM Android Users Need To Delete Google Maps and Google Play If They Don't Want Their Locations Tracked
Wednesday September 07, 2016 @04:34PM Apple Announces Apple Watch Series 2 With GPS, Water-Resistance and Faster Performance
Tuesday August 30, 2016 @06:42PM Researchers Map Locations of 4,669 Servers In Netflix's Content Delivery Network
Tuesday August 16, 2016 @05:18PM FCC Complaint: Baltimore Police Breaking Law With Use of Stingray Phone Trackers
Friday July 29, 2016 @03:01PM Australia Has Moved 1.5 Metres, So It's Updating Its Location For Self-Driving Cars
Wednesday July 27, 2016 @11:20AM Android's New Feature Can Share Your Exact Location In Emergency Situation
Tuesday July 26, 2016 @06:18PM EU Plans To Create Database of Bitcoin Users With Identities and Wallet Addresses
Friday July 22, 2016 @04:32PM Edward Snowden At Comic-Con: 'I Live a Surprisingly Free Life'
Wednesday July 20, 2016 @07:14PM Saudi Arabia Revives 15-Year-Old Ban On 'Zionism-Promoting' Pokemon
Friday July 15, 2016 @04:30PM Cybercrime Overtakes Traditional Crime In UK, Says Report
Friday July 15, 2016 @02:04AM Null Island: The Land of Lousy Directional Data
Wednesday July 13, 2016 @07:08PM Ex-Google Engineer Launches Blockchain-Based System For Banks
Monday July 11, 2016 @05:29PM PSA: Pokemon Go Has Full Access To Your Google Account Data
Wednesday June 29, 2016 @04:38PM Google's My Activity Reveals How Much It Knows About You
Thursday June 23, 2016 @05:26PM HTML5 Ads Aren't That Safe Compared To Flash, Experts Say
Tuesday June 21, 2016 @06:15PM 3 Million Strong Botnet Grows Right Under Twitter's Nose
Thursday June 16, 2016 @11:18AM Facebook Will Track What Physical Stores You Go Into
Wednesday June 15, 2016 @04:57PM FBI Says Utility Pole Surveillance Cam Locations Must Be Kept Secret
Thursday June 09, 2016 @01:56PM Google's Nearby Feature Recommends Apps and Websites Based On Your Location
Monday June 06, 2016 @06:27PM Weary Homeowners Wage War On Waze
Friday June 03, 2016 @05:45PM FBI Developing Software To Track, Sort People By Their Tattoos
Thursday June 02, 2016 @04:30PM At Least 33 US Cities Used Water Testing 'Cheats' Over Lead Concerns
Tuesday May 24, 2016 @11:19PM Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Fitbit For 'Highly Inaccurate' Heart Rate Trackers
Thursday May 19, 2016 @07:02PM Google Is A Serial Tracker
Thursday May 12, 2016 @07:01PM Government Spy Truck Is Disguised As A Google Street View Car
Thursday May 05, 2016 @08:25PM Finger-Tracking Tech Turns Your Arm Into A Touchpad
Tuesday April 26, 2016 @06:49PM Millions Of Waze Users Can Have Their Movements Tracked By Hackers
Sunday March 06, 2016 @12:46PM No, Turning On Your Phone Is Not Consenting To Being Tracked By Police
Saturday February 27, 2016 @04:35PM Google Unveils Neural Network With Ability To Determine Location of Any Image
Tuesday July 07, 2015 @04:30PM A Real-Time Map of All the Objects In Earth's Orbit
Friday November 07, 2014 @08:11PM Florida-Based Magic Leap Builds Its Team With Bay Area Hires
Thursday June 05, 2014 @11:40AM AT&T To Use Phone Geolocation To Prevent Credit Card Fraud
Thursday December 13, 2012 @09:37AM Revamped Google Maps Finally Available On iOS
Thursday September 27, 2012 @01:36PM Apple Reportedly Luring Ex-Google Mappers With Jobs
Saturday September 01, 2012 @09:09PM High Tech Companies Becoming Fools For the City
Thursday October 20, 2011 @08:04AM Galileo To Be Europe's Answer To US GPS
Thursday September 22, 2011 @04:03PM Surveillance Case May Reveal FBI Cellphone Tracking Techniques
Thursday August 11, 2011 @11:29PM How Does GPS Change Us?
Monday August 01, 2011 @08:14PM Ground-Based GPS Mimic Is Inch Perfect
Saturday July 02, 2011 @01:39AM Researchers Track Cell Phones Indoors By Listening In
Tuesday May 10, 2011 @02:15PM Apple Discusses iOS Privacy Issues Before Congress
Friday April 29, 2011 @09:35AM GPS Maker TomTom Submits Your Speed Data To Police
Thursday April 21, 2011 @04:36PM iPhone and Location: Don't Panic
Tuesday September 07, 2010 @07:23PM The State of Mapping APIs, 5 Years On
Monday June 21, 2010 @11:18PM Apple Wants To Share Your Location With Others
Thursday February 11, 2010 @02:22PM Feds Push For Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking