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Bluetooth wireless communication makes it possible to track when people have been exposed to people infected with the coronavirus. The right cryptography scheme keeps alerts about exposures private.
Location data on your smartphone is giving law enforcement new surveillance tools
The use of geofence warrants has increased sharply in recent years
It says it rarely uses the data.
Revelation has led to fears the information could be abused
You may have never heard of X-Mode, but it could know a lot about you.
New documents show how Venntel, which sells some of its location data to ICE, CBP, and the FBI, obtains the information from ordinary apps.
Inspector general audits purchases of data that would otherwise require warrants.
A Muslim prayer app with over 98 million downloads is one of the apps connected to a wide-ranging supply chain that sends ordinary people's personal data to brokers, contractors, and the military.
For many of us, cartography day in geography or history class meant a quick nap. With our eyes open, we’d dream of all the delicious stuff we were gonna eat after school, of music we’d play on the Walkman, of a message we received the other day from that cutie…
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The data comes from hundreds of ordinary apps installed on peoples’ phones around the world.
Geofencing.
There are ways to protect privacy in contact-tracing apps... and then there's Albion's.
Agencies' ability to purchase any data on the open market is a big loophole.
a free introduction to geo
The Atlas of Surveillance shows which tech law enforcement agencies across the country have acquired. It's a sobering look at the present-day panopticon.
Activists want demonstrators to stay active—but privacy implications abound.
Tim Hortons is logging detailed location data of customers through its app — and many may not realize it’s happening at all