Google's Find My Device Network Edges Closer to UWB Precision Tracking
#Google #Android #FindMyDevice #UWB #UltraWideband #AirTag #LocationTracking #BluetoothTracker #TechNews #MobileTech #Pebblebee #Chipolo #MotoTag
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New Tool Exposes How Ads in Apps Use Network Data Tracking to Trace Your Location
#MobilePrivacy #AppSec #DataPrivacy #AdTech #Privacy #Cybersecurity #InfoSec #LocationTracking #DataBroker #Surveillance #Android #iOS #PrivacyTools #SecurityResearch
"Your location data isn't just a pin on a map—it's a powerful tool that reveals far more than most people realize. It can expose where you work, where you pray, who you spend time with, and, sometimes dangerously, where you seek healthcare. In today’s world, your most private movements are harvested, aggregated, and sold to anyone with a credit card. For those seeking reproductive or gender-affirming care, or visiting a protest or a immigration law clinic, this data is a ticking time bomb.
Last year, we sounded the alarm, urging lawmakers to protect individuals from the growing threats of location tracking tools—tools that are increasingly being used to target and criminalize people seeking essential reproductive healthcare.
The good news? Lawmakers in California, Massachusetts, Illinois and elsewhere are stepping up, leading the way to protect privacy and ensure that healthcare access and other exercise of our rights remain safe from invasive surveillance."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/privacy-map-how-states-are-fighting-location-surveillance
Electronic Frontier Foundation · Privacy on the Map: How States Are Fighting Location SurveillanceLocation data is highly sensitive, and without proper protections, it can be used to harm those who are already vulnerable. The digital trail we leave behind can reveal far more than we think, and without laws in place to protect us, we are all at risk.
Geofency 9.3 is here!
• Edit POIs manually 
• New language support: Dutch & Polish 
• Smarter POI handling + clearer monument icons 
Update now and make your location tracking even better!
#iOS #Geofency #Update #Productivity #LocationTracking http://itunes.apple.com/app/id615538630
App StoreGeofency - Time TrackingGEOFENCY enables fully automatic location-based time recording on iPhone, iPad, Mac & Apple Watch, where manual clock-in and clock-out becomes an absurdity of the past. Arrival and departure times are automatically recorded as soon as you enter or leave an interesting place – it works like magic! Of…
Oh joy, another thrilling installment of "Let's All Be Terrified By Location Tracking"—because clearly, the first one wasn't anxiety-inducing enough. 
This time, our intrepid hero invites us all to become amateur spies by conducting a DIY location data experiment, because who needs privacy when you can panic together? 
https://timsh.org/everyone-knows-your-location-part-2-try-it-yourself/ #LocationTracking #PrivacyConcerns #DIYExperiment #AmateurSpies #DataAnxiety #HackerNews #ngated
tim.sh · Everyone knows your location, Part 2: try it yourself and share the resultsLearn how to record and analyse your mobile device traffic, take an app from the list of "shady" apps and share the results.
Think your devices are private? Think again. In this episode, we explore the often-overlooked dangers of Wi-Fi tracking and how your phone or laptop could be silently sharing your location.
#WiFiTracking #CyberPrivacy #LocationTracking #DigitalSecurity #PrivacyMatters #TechAwareness #CyberSafety #PodcastAlert
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5LeNn2Wy4RqN1twjCmJnEg?si=CvgzlQzARASIq91XCAcnaw
SpotifyThe Hidden Threat of Wi-Fi Tracking: How Your Devices Reveal Your LocationDaily Security Review · Episode
This week in the Weekly News Roundup, a location service went rouge, phones come with pre-installed malware, and AI is scraping through bandwidth. Also, Garmin unleashes a new subscription model for watches, then we visit SillyVille.
#weeklynewsroundup #locationtracking #subscriptions
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https://switchedtolinux.com/news/a-warning-about-location-services
#Location Data Firm Offers to Help #Cops Track Targets via #Doctor Visits
#FogDataScience is a #locationtracking company that takes data harvested from #smartphones and makes it accessible to #LawEnforcement. A document obtained by 404 Media shows the company explicitly says it will use doctors visits to unmask a target if needed. In its 2022 investigation, the EFF found Fog claimed to have “billions” of data points concerning more than 250 million devices
https://www.404media.co/location-data-firm-offers-to-help-cops-track-targets-via-doctor-visits/
404 Media · Location Data Firm Offers to Help Cops Track Targets via Doctor VisitsFog Data Science is a location tracking company that takes data harvested from smartphones and makes it accessible to cops. A document obtained by 404 Media shows the company explicitly says it will use doctors visits to unmask a target if needed.
https://www.europesays.com/1630711/ Walton County Sheriff’s Office using new technology to help locate distressed callers #911Dispatchers #america #CommunicationOfficers #DistressedCallers #EmergencyAssistance #LocationTracking #RapidDeploy911 #science #technology #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USA #VideoCall #WaltonCounty
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"Even Google staff complain that they can't figure out how to turn off location tracking [in Android]. Now, in any kind of sane world, this would be a prohibited activity. Section Five of the Federal Trade Commission Act gives the agency broad latitude to intervene to prevent ‘unfair and deceptive’ practices... And yet governments have taken no action."
#CoryDoctorow, 2023
https://www.tni.org/en/article/seizing-the-means-of-computation
Transnational InstituteSeizing the means of computation – how popular movements can topple Big Tech monopolies | Transnational InstituteCory Doctorow is a prolific writer and a brilliant science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist. He is a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards and treaties. His most recent book is Chokepoint Capitalism (co-authored with Rebecca Giblin), a powerful expose of how tech monopolies have stifled creative labour markets and how movements might fight back. Nick Buxton, editor of TNI’s State of Power report and Shaun Matsheza, host of the State of Power podcast, chatted to Cory in the wake of floods in his hometown of Burbank, California. This is an edited excerpt of the interview.