United States Central Command has disclosed that commercially available location data was used to track deployed U.S. military personnel across various theatres of operation.
A Cloudflare CDN flaw that can expose some location data to an attacker was patched before being ethically disclosed, but the security researcher that discovered it says that the trick still works with the use of a VPN service and some extra steps.
Google's argument to dismiss the privacy lawsuit was that the plaintiffs should have been aware that third-party apps that make use of Google Analytics tools might continue to collect location data about them independently. The judge determined that a "reasonable user" could not be expected to know that.
German automaker Volkswagen suffered a massive data leak, affecting over 800,000 electric vehicle owners, with over half of EVs leaking precise location data.
The FTC placed collection bans on Mobilewalla Inc. and Gravy Analytics, both US-based data brokers that process huge amounts of information. Mobilewalla has tracking profiles on over 1.6 billion devices across more than 35 countries.
The market for location data is staggering, surpassing $12 billion annually. Yet, it's riddled with privacy pitfalls. Precise location is particularly concerning among the trove of personal data brokers collect.
Forbes report indicated that the TikTok app may have been used to track location data of specific American citizens. ByteDance denies there was any wrongdoing.
Dating app Grindr quietly sold user location data to a third-party ad network from "at least" 2017 until early 2020, making it available to thousands of parties.
A new study of privacy concerns upends the notion that traditional "reasonable expectation of privacy" models also apply to digital tracking and data collection.
Four of the largest U.S. wireless carriers, T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon and Sprint, face a potential collective fine of $200 million for failing to secure location data sold to third parties.
