The ad-tracking industry is exposing US soldiers on the battlefield
The Pentagon knew phone tracking could expose troops, now it says enemies are doing it
Meta is using its own employees' activity to train AI, and laying off 8,000 of them at the same time
Employees are calling the changes "incredibly demoralizing"
Google's Fitbit Air is a Whoop-like screen-less fitness tracker built around AI
The minimalist device tracks sleep, heart rate, and activity while Google Health and Gemini handle the analysis
A Supreme Court case could decide whether your phone can be used to find you first and suspect you later
A robbery case tied to Google data could set nationwide rules for how investigators use reverse searches to identify suspects
A $5 Bluetooth tracker hidden in a postcard exposed a warship's movements
A journalist slipped the device into the mail and mapped a Dutch frigate during deployment
Court says continued use of tracking app counts as consent, even if users never read the new TOS
Even though the TOS amendment wound up in a spam-folder, it is still valid in Tile stalking suit
Hackers can now track your car's location through tire pressure sensors
$100 DIY device can intercept TPMS data from 50 meters away
Apple launches new AirTag with longer range and improved "Find My"
Better performance, same price
TikTok quietly expands location tracking and ad targeting for US users
TikTok reshapes US data rules after spinout
Google pulls the plug on Privacy Sandbox, leaving cookies in place
Google's post-cookie vision for the web has collapsed
San Francisco shuts down website that helped drivers avoid parking tickets – four hours after launch
Leaderboard showed five officers racking up over $15,000 in daily parking fines
What just happened? A website that helped San Francisco residents avoid parking tickets has been effectively killed off by the city, just hours after it went live and was in the process of going viral. Find My Parking Cops stopped working after the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) changed the government site where the tool was scraping its data, blocking its access to the information.
Court rejects Verizon claim that selling location data without consent is legal
AT&T won its appeal using a stronger defense than "But it's legal"
Jury orders Google to pay $425 million for unlawfully tracking millions of users
Google's analytics tracked usage from partner apps even when account activity settings were turned off
Nvidia says no backdoors, kill switches, or spyware in its chips after China accusations
"That's not how trustworthy systems are built - and never will be"
Skechers unveils kids' sneakers with hidden Apple AirTag compartment
Track your kids with new Skechers 'Find My' sneakers
Meta and Yandex bypassed Android privacy to link anonymous web browsing to app users
Millions of Android users are discovering their online identities are not as private as they thought
A hot potato: For years, the privacy of Android users browsing the web has been quietly compromised by a sophisticated tracking method employed by two of the world's largest tech companies: Meta and Yandex. According to recent research, both companies have exploited legitimate browser-to-app communication protocols to covertly link anonymous web activity with the identities of users logged into native apps like Facebook, Instagram, and various Yandex services on Android devices.
Researchers find billions of browser cookies for sale on the dark web
Cybercriminals exploiting traditional web standards to commit fraud -- or worse
US politicians want to track Nvidia chips smuggled to China
Are microchip smugglers bypassing US export bans en masse?
"MyTerms" draft standard wants to fix what Do Not Track couldn't
A new IEEE standard proposes machine-readable contracts for digital consent
Google's reCAPTCHA is not only useless, it's also basically spyware
reCAPTCHA v3's checkbox test doesn't stop bots and tracks user data
Amazon faces class action for covert geolocation tracking through third-party mobile apps
Lawsuit claims Amazon Ads SDK harvested sensitive user data without consent
Subaru vulnerability exposed millions of cars to remote hacking and tracking
"You can retrieve at least a year's worth of location history for the car, where it's pinged precisely"
Mobile apps exploited to harvest location data on massive scale, hacked files reveal
"There's some company out there acting like a global honey badger, doing whatever it pleases with every piece of data that comes its way"
A hot potato: Thousands of popular mobile apps across Android and iOS are allegedly being exploited to harvest sensitive location data on an unprecedented scale. This data collection, occurring through the advertising ecosystem, is likely happening without the knowledge of users or even app developers themselves.
Time Capsule turns Apple's AirTag into a rugged tracker with 10 years of battery life
Powered by two AA batteries
Android ramps up anti-stalking measures with improved tracking alerts
Google is committed to people's safety... and to avoid class action lawsuits