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location data

Location points on the globe

Report: U.S. military using apps popular with Muslims to purchase location data

Hundreds of millions of cell phone users are affected.

On Nov 16, 2020 by Mikael Thalen

Tech
handcuffs made from location data over city background

What are geofence warrants and how can police use them against protesters?

A bill in New York seeks to prohibit them.

On Jul 5, 2020 by Libby Cohen

Tech
A map of the U.S. with blue lines representing cell phone travel

Cellphone heat map shows how a Tyson Foods plant can spread coronavirus

The data shows how the very industries helping keep America fed could inadvertently be helping spread the virus.

On May 6, 2020 by Mikael Thalen

Tech
Google Coronavirus Mobility Trends Report

Google launches site to show people’s movements during coronavirus

The new site shows how much people are going to various places.

On Apr 3, 2020 by Andrew Wyrich

Tech
A man taking a picture of people with his cell phone

Here’s how feds might be using your cellphone data to aid coronavirus response

Feds will be able to use cellphone data to tell whether people are social distancing.

On Mar 29, 2020 by Mikael Thalen

Tech
A map of the U.S. with cell phone locations highlighted

Terrifying cellphone ‘heat map’ shows just how much people are still traveling

Want to know where all those Florida spring breakers are now?

On Mar 26, 2020 by Mikael Thalen

Tech

Senators demand White House exercise caution if using phone location data to track coronavirus

Lawmakers have been sending letters to the White House.

On Mar 20, 2020 by Andrew Wyrich

Tech
Shadows of people looking at their phone against a wall

U.S. government may use phone location data to fight coronavirus

The anonymized data would give health professionals insight into the disease's spread.

On Mar 17, 2020 by Mikael Thalen

Tech
ice dhs phone data tracking

Feds are buying phone location data to enforce immigration laws

They've been doing it for years.

On Feb 7, 2020 by Claire Goforth

IRL Layer 8
FCC report phone carriers illegal location sharing

FCC: ‘One or more’ phone carriers illegally shared customer location data

Customers' real-time location made its way into the hands of bounty hunters and stalkers.

On Jan 31, 2020 by Mikael Thalen

Layer 8 Tech

Google Maps Incognito Mode is here and this is how to turn it on

Here's what Incognito Mode can and can't do in Google Maps.

On Oct 4, 2019 by Mikael Thalen

Tech

These dating apps were found to be leaking users’ exact locations

Security firm says as many as 10 million users of Grindr, Romeo, Recon, and 3fun were at risk.

On Aug 13, 2019 by Mikael Thalen

Tech

Startup secretly collected millions of Instagram users’ location data, stories

The marketing firm is said to have gathered information on 1 million users each month.

On Aug 8, 2019 by Mikael Thalen

Tech
twitter-kills-geotagging

RIP to the Twitter geotagging feature that no one actually used

You can still add precise locations to pictures through Twitter's camera.

On Jun 19, 2019 by Mikael Thalen

Tech

Twitter bug shared some user’s location data without their consent

Users running multiple accounts on iOS could have unknowingly given up data.

On May 13, 2019 by Mikael Thalen

Layer 8 Tech

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