Two recent news stories about cellphone location services recently caught my eye. One was a positive development and the other quite negative, until it was at least partially fixed.
Security
Jun 29, 2018
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Verizon is pledging to stop selling information on phone owners' locations to data brokers, stepping back from a business practice that has drawn criticism for endangering privacy, The Associated Press has learned.
Business
Jun 19, 2018
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A California company confirmed that a flaw in its website allowed outsiders to pinpoint the location of mobile phones in the United States without authorization.
Security
May 19, 2018
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Location, location, location. Is Google tracking Android users' whereabouts without their permission?
Business
May 16, 2018
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Carrying your smartphone around everywhere has become a way of life. In doing so, you produce a surprising amount of data about your role in the economy—where you shop, work, travel, and generally hang out.
Computer Sciences
Mar 28, 2018
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If you open Google and start typing "Chinese cave gecko", the text will auto-populate to "Chinese cave gecko for sale" – just US$150, with delivery. This extremely rare species is just one of an increasingly large number ...
Ecology
May 26, 2017
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Police don't need a warrant to obtain mobile phone location data for a criminal investigation, a US appeals court ruled Tuesday in a case closely watched for digital-era privacy implications.
Security
May 31, 2016
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Researchers at MIT and Oxford University have shown that the location stamps on just a handful of Twitter posts—as few as eight over the course of a single day—can be enough to disclose the addresses of the poster's home ...
Computer Sciences
May 17, 2016
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Another computer-security firm raised concerns Monday about the potential for hackers to glean users' personal data from phone apps released by the campaigns of Republican presidential contenders Ted Cruz and John Kasich.
Software
Apr 25, 2016
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The text message Heidi Hurst received from her father contained only four words: "headed for higher ground." Sitting in a Harvard classroom, she felt helpless as her father frantically packed the car to escape floodwaters ...
Engineering
Nov 17, 2015
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