As consumers and regulators become more skeptical of how companies collect user data, one startup has raised another round to build out ways to help brands become more relevant with how they use ...

Phone location data collected by advertisers doesn't show the whole picture and is vulnerable to mass fraud, researchers warn. Alfred Ng Senior Reporter / CNET News Alfred Ng was a senior reporter for ...

A federal judge has dismissed a class-action privacy complaint claiming the company wrongly collected location data about Facebook users via tracking software embedded in mobile apps.

The alarm bells have been sounding about location tracking, and the state legislatures have been responding. Perhaps the loudest ringing in 2020 is from the ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) -Have you ever considered how long cellphone companies hold on to your location data? Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Charter Communications are some of the country’s largest wireless ...

Chances are, your phone is sending location data to several companies right now. Many apps on your smartphone keep track of where you are, often for obvious-sounding reasons. Your weather app wants to ...

In an age when privacy concerns are at the forefront of technological discussions, many smartphone users believe that turning off their location services ensures their movements remain private.

There is an estimated $12 billion market of companies that buy and sell location data collected from your cellphone. And the trade is entirely legal in the U.S. TNW City Coworking space - Where your ...

In the midst of an uproar over ways that Apple and Google collect and store location information from mobile phones, Microsoft has laid out details about its Windows Phone 7 data collection policies.

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 ...

A federal judge has dismissed a class-action privacy complaint claiming the company wrongly collected location data about Facebook users via tracking software embedded in mobile apps.