location services

The body of Mackenzie Lueck has been recovered in Utah, weeks after the Southern California college student went missing after returning to school.

Using the latest high-tech tactics in digital marketing, some companies are quietly hiring geofencing advertisers to send Ads to targeted groups.
Privacy groups say there is nothing stopping these advertisers or anyone from geofencing sensitive areas, such as hospitals, polling places, schools and beyond. The upcoming 2020 elections may find geofencing a tool to target voters.

Google has changed a help page that erroneously described how its “Location History” setting works, clarifying for users that it still tracks their location even if they turn the setting off.

An Associated Press investigation found that many Google services on Android devices and iPhones will store your location data even if you’ve used privacy settings that say they will prevent it from doing so.

Google wants to know where you go so badly that it records your movements even when you explicitly tell it not to. An Associated Press investigation found that many Google services on Android devices and iPhones store your location data even if you’ve used privacy settings that say they will prevent it from doing so. Computer-science researchers at Princeton confirmed...

Yahoo Sports will livestream all four divisional playoff games this weekend and the conference championships as an appetizer for next season when every game from the preseason to the Super Bowl will be livestreamed on its sports app.

Social media is a means for millions of Floridians affected by Hurricane Irma to keep in touch. Many took to social media to send status updates to loved ones and to share their experiences with the world.

Illinois has become the first state where a groundbreaking internet privacy bill has reached the governor’s desk, according to data privacy experts, and advocates are urging Gov. Bruce Rauner to sign it into law.