The next most commonly cited reason is emergencies (64%), followed by using location to determine whether it’s a good time to ...

Smartphone owners who granted “always allow” location access to a weather widget or prayer-time app may have unknowingly fed their precise coordinates to a commercial data broker that sold the ...

Imagine if a data broker knows your phone is on a nightstand next to another phone six nights a week and across town on the seventh night. That data broker also knows everywhere you go and how long ...

Should family members track each other's location? A therapist explains the risks, trust issues, and privacy concerns.

Apple has built a reputation on privacy and the security of its iPhone, so it comes as no surprise that it gives users a lot of control over location tracking settings. Location tracking can be ...

Apple’s decision to be much more proactive in alerting users to background location tracking in iOS 13 has resulted in a 68% drop in the location data collected by apps. The issue has also seen ...

The FBI’s Portland Field Office told phone users to decline a single in-app tracking prompt, the one that grants apps access ...

Last year, on the car ride home after a teary parting from my eldest kid in a University of Maryland parking lot, I pulled out my phone and added a new “location” to my Life360 settings. “Sofia’s dorm ...

The latest version of iOS offers some convenient ways to manage location tracking by apps. Tracking your location via your mobile device is something many apps and websites attempt to do. Developers, ...