South Korea is placing public health concerns over patient privacy in the growing COVID-19 outbreak by publicly publishing location details about patients’ movements. Read More
Without your knowledge or consent, the leading mobile phone carriers in the United States may be actively selling your location data to third-party vendors. And, in turn, these vendors are re-selling this data to an expanding network of shady middlemen. Read More
Social fitness apps such as Strava need to be doing more to enhance user privacy and safety. The recent snafu involving the disclosure of U.S. military personnel location data has increased awareness of the perils created by tracking apps. Learn more about how these apps are collecting data, and how they are using it. Read More
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. Read More
As location-based services become ubiquitous and the rise of selfie soldiers, the Strava heat map incident shows the difficulty in governing civilian technology in military settings. Read More
New feature in iOS 13 that will inform users when apps on their iPhone are trying to collect location data may be bad news for tech giants like Facebook who use the information to serve up targeted ads. Read More
Uber refused to share their mobility data with Los Angeles Department of Transportation as they think the agency plans to monetize it and control the movement of vehicles on LA streets. Read More
While location services are inherently useful, it is how organizations that gather and use the data that may be a cause of concern for location privacy. Read More
Securus data scandal exposes cavalier attitude of location aggregators and mobile carriers towards location data and consumer privacy. Read More
DPC has opened a privacy investigation against Google over location tracking and its capacity to collect massive location data that could be in breach of GDPR regulations. Read More
