For the first time, geolocation—the identification of the location of an individual or an object using technology—will see its day in court. The named plaintiff representing the class, Guillermo Mata, ...

Groundbreaking Illinois legislation meant to protect mobile phone users from having their location information trafficked by companies without their permission is ...

Microsoft has restricted its Wi-Fi-powered geolocation database after a researcher investigating Wi-Fi geolocation and position tracking raised privacy concerns about the information recorded. This ...

Facebook wants to know “What’s on your mind?” Twitter asks “What’s happening?” But that’s getting old already. The burning question for the next wave of social networking is “Where are you?”–and ...

(TNS) -- Groundbreaking Illinois legislation meant to protect mobile phone users from having their location information trafficked by companies without their permission is going nowhere, at least for ...

One day after congressional lawmakers grilled the FBI chief and Apple's top lawyer about government's access to encrypted data, another smaller, less spotlighted panel convened on Capitol Hill — to ...

At the W3C Workshop on Privacy for Advanced Web APIs, one of the topics was the Geolocation API Specification. Experts from Google (news, site), Opera Software (news ...

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U.S. legislators have reintroduced bills that would place curbs on warrantless access by the government to electronically generated geolocation information of Americans, including on the use of ...