Showing posts with label location. Show all posts
Showing posts with label location. Show all posts

Sunday, February 9, 2020

Saturday, December 21, 2019

Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy - NYTimes

EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY DAY, everywhere on the planet, dozens of companies — largely unregulated, little scrutinized — are logging the movements of tens of millions of people with mobile phones and storing the information in gigantic data files. The Times Privacy Project obtained one such file, by far the largest and most sensitive ever to be reviewed by journalists. It holds more than 50 billion location pings from the phones of more than 12 million Americans as they moved through several major cities, including Washington, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. ....
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html

Saturday, December 14, 2019

Trump Campaign Deploying Phone Location-Tracking Technology

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S reelection effort has retained the services of a technology company that specializes in the mass collection of smartphone location data, which can be used to track voters for political targeting purposes.
https://theintercept.com/2019/12/11/the-donald-trump-campaign-is-deploying-phone-location-tracking-technology/

Monday, July 8, 2019

These are the sneaky new ways that Android apps are tracking you - Fast Company

You could admire the tenacity if it didn't come with such trickery: After years of effort by Google to stop Android apps from scanning users' data without permission, app developers keep trying to find new work-arounds to track people. A talk at PrivacyCon, a one-day conference hosted by the Federal Trade Commission last Thursday, outlined a few ways apps are prying loose network, device, and location identifiers. ....
https://www.fastcompany.com/90372033/these-are-the-sneaky-new-ways-that-android-apps-are-tracking-you

Wednesday, December 19, 2018

How to view which apps have location permissions on iOS - 9to5Mac

A recent report noted that some apps are mining your location to send to advertisers. Follow along to learn how to view which apps have location permissions on iOS. .....
https://9to5mac.com/2018/12/10/view-which-apps-have-location-permissions-on-ios/








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