Of all of the recent technological developments that have expanded the surveillance capabilities of law enforcement agencies at the expense of individual privacy, perhaps the most powerful is cell ...

It should come as no surprise that tech companies use the location services on your smartphone to track your comings and goings. That’s how they give you up-to-date traffic and weather reports, ...

The Federal Trade Commission sued an app analytics company on Monday for selling cell phone location data that the agency said could be used to track people to sensitive locations like abortion ...

Massachusetts lawmakers are weighing a near total ban on buying and selling of location data drawn from consumers’ mobile devices in the state, in what would be a first-in-the-nation effort to rein in ...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) used mobile location data to track people’s movements on a much larger scale than previously known, according to new documents unearthed by the American Civil ...

A teenage boy's fatal car crash on Cape Cod has sparked a debate over when cell phone companies should get involved in tracing the location of phones. Since no crime appeared to have happened, ...

While some states have taken steps to protect cell phone information, Massachusetts could become the first state to outright ban the sale of location data from cell phones. A bill making its way ...

Prosecutors are fighting to prevent the dismissal of key cell phone location evidence from the upcoming trial of William Long ...

Google is set on Wednesday to launch a new feature in its Google Maps for Mobile program that automatically sets your location even in phones that lack a global positioning system (GPS) device. Until ...