Social Media How Facebook tracks when you turn off location tracking Dec 28, 2018 A new report has found that even if users turn off location tracking on Facebook, the firm will still use their IP address, as well as other…
Digital Marketing Gravy’s ‘location data forensics’ seeks to identify, minimize fraud in programmatic bidstreams Dec 25, 2018 Location intelligence company Gravy Analytics is introducing what it’s calling “location data forensics.” Its purpose is to filter out…
Tech and Gadget Automakers give the Chinese government access to location data of electric cars Dec 2, 2018 China’s government has spent the last few years pressuring automakers and citizens to adopt hybrid and electric vehicles to cut into the country’s…
Cyber Security Europe wants privacy regulators to act against Google’s location tracking Nov 28, 2018 Consumer agencies in the Netherlands, Poland and five other European Union countries asked privacy regulators on 27 November to take action against…
Cyber Security FCC lets U.S. phones access EU satellites for 3-foot location accuracy Nov 26, 2018 Until now, consumer devices sold in the United States have relied on imprecise data from U.S.-developed GPS and Russian GLONASS satellites for …
Tech and Gadget Instagram Testing Feature That Shares Your Location History With Facebook; Launches ‘Nametags’ to… Oct 6, 2018 Instagram is testing a feature that would allow users’ location data collected by the social media platform to be shared with its parent company…
Advertising Here’s the latest scary example of just how detailed Google location data really is | Advertising Sep 19, 2018 ICYMI: In the latest New York Times Magazine, John Herrman offers a particularly harrowingand deeply personaltake on just how detailed Google’s…
Tech News update Amazon’s HQ2 location will be announced this year | Industry Sep 15, 2018 Things have been pretty quiet on the Amazon HQ2 front. Earlier this year, the online retail giant announced that it had whittled the list of…
Cyber Security Google under investigation for tracking users’ location without consent Sep 12, 2018 Arizona is investigating Google’s practices when it comes to tracking user location. If the investigation finds evidence Google has violated user…
Cyber Security Hacked stalking app reveals victims’ photos, texts and location info | Cyber Security Sep 1, 2018 Another mobile stalking app has been hacked, endangering both its customers and the victims that they spy on. According to Motherboard, an anonymous…