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Tag: location tracking

  1. New emails reveal U.S. Feds not ‘forthright’ about false ‘stingray’ cell towers used to track location of mobile phones

    Thursday, March 28, 2013 · 12:02 pm · 14 Comments

    According to new Justice Department e-mails obtained by the ACLU…

  2. Apple to release new tracking tool for iOS app developers

    Friday, June 8, 2012 · 4:38 pm · 2 Comments

    Apple Inc. is planning to release a new way for mobile app developers…

  3. Judge rules Apple must face lawsuit over iPhone location data collection claims

    Friday, May 4, 2012 · 2:02 pm · 12 Comments

    Apple Inc. must face a lawsuit over claims it collected data from customers…

  4. Apple wins iPhone patents for location tracking, hybrid antenna, and more

    Tuesday, January 31, 2012 · 2:05 pm · 3 Comments

    Today, the US Patent and Trademark Office officially published…

  5. Lawsuit says Microsoft tracks customers without consent

    Thursday, September 1, 2011 · 9:27 am · 7 Comments

    Microsoft allegedly tracks the location of its mobile customers even after users…

  6. Google Street View cars grabbed locations of cellphones, computers

    Tuesday, July 26, 2011 · 3:33 pm · 36 Comments

    Google’s Street View cars collected the locations of millions of laptops, cell phones, and other Wi-Fi devices…

  7. Apple pays South Korean iPhone user 1 million won over iPhone location data collection

    Thursday, July 14, 2011 · 9:01 am · 25 Comments

    Apple Inc’s Korean unit has paid compensation to a user of its popular iPhone…

  8. U.S. Senate Democrat Rockefeller: Totally unregulated apps have to be regulated

    Friday, May 20, 2011 · 11:01 am · 46 Comments

    Apple and Google yesterday made a repeat appearance in front of the U.S. Senate…

  9. Scoble: Apple has nothing over Google when it comes to knowing where you really are

    Monday, May 2, 2011 · 3:02 pm · 15 Comments

    Android apps can talk to your pretend iPhone’s radios and those same APIs are not available on Apple’s iOS platform…

  10. Apple, Google set to testify at U.S. Congressional hearing on location data to begin May 10th

    Monday, May 2, 2011 · 9:31 am · 12 Comments

    Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) issued statements…

  11. Android phone settlers sue Google for $50 million over location tracking

    Friday, April 29, 2011 · 2:02 pm · 8 Comments

    Google is being accused of excessively-detailed tracking…

  12. U.S. Senate Democrat Franken to hold mobile privacy hearing; Apple, Google summoned

    Tuesday, April 26, 2011 · 10:00 am · 72 Comments

    U.S. Senate Democrat Al Franken, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, will hold the hearing…