Of all of the recent technological developments that have expanded the surveillance capabilities of law enforcement agencies at the expense of individual privacy, perhaps the most powerful is cell ...

If you use a mobile phone with location services turned on, it is likely that data about where you live and work, where you ...

Getting lost indoors can be frustrating. Whether it’s finding your gate at an airport or navigating a large shopping mall, the struggle is real. Businesses and institutions face challenges in making ...

Massachusetts lawmakers are weighing a near total ban on buying and selling of location data drawn from consumers’ mobile devices in the state, in what would be a first-in-the-nation effort to rein in ...

While some states have taken steps to protect cell phone information, Massachusetts could become the first state to outright ban the sale of location data from cell phones. A bill making its way ...

VIRGINIA, Minn. (CN) — A man convicted of the beating death of a homeless man in 2021 argued before the Minnesota Supreme Court Thursday his privacy rights were violated the rural Minnesota murder ...

The Ohio Supreme Court ruled that location data voluntarily provided to apps is not protected by the Fourth Amendment. The ruling stems from a robbery case where police used location data from the ...

A deputy U.S. Marshal pleaded guilty today to misusing a law enforcement service to obtain cell phone location information for personal use. According to court documents, Adrian Pena, 49, of Del Rio, ...

Most Americans have a cell phone on them or nearby at all times and are concerned with the legality of cell phone location tracking. The courts have wobbled back and forth on Fourth Amendment rulings ...

Some 250 years after the Sons of Liberty threw chests of tea into the Boston Harbor, the State of Massachusetts could be about to lead the nation in a different sort of revolution. Lawmakers in the ...

North Carolina House lawmakers are moving ahead with a bill requiring wireless providers to cooperate with law enforcement. Providers would be required to quickly provide cell phone location data to ...

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