location tracking
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How Your Weather App Became a Surveillance Machine — And How to Escape It
The forecast is free, but you’ve been paying for it with every place you’ve ever visited.
TikTok’s New US Joint Venture Expands Data Collection to Include Precise Location Tracking
TikTok’s new era comes with a sharper eye on users’ exact whereabouts.
EU Revives Plan for Year-Long Data Retention Across Digital Services, Including Encrypted Apps
A rewrite of Europe’s privacy rules could turn every click, call, and login into a year-long entry in a government ledger.
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Use the Website. Ditch the App.
It’s not the features they want you using, it’s the data you don’t know you’re giving.
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Silicon With a Side of Surveillance
A tracker for high-end processors could trickle down to the blender on your counter.
Google Reaches $1.375 Billion Settlement With Texas Over Privacy Violations Involving Location Tracking and Biometric Data
Google settles with Texas for $1.375 billion over claims of unauthorized data collection via Incognito mode, biometrics, and location tracking.
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Your Phone Didn’t Snitch but Your Photo Did
Your digital trail doesn’t need GPS when the streetlamp in frame does the talking.
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Secret Service Claims You Consented to Location Tracking
They think they don’t need a warrant for your data.
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How 5G Threatens Your Privacy, Allowing Your Exact Locations to Be Recorded as You Move
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Brazil Had a Secret Program to Track People’s Location via Cell Phone
Used by the ABIN intelligence agency.
