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Feds ‘Pinged’ Sprint GPS Data 8 Million Times Over a Year
Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with customer location data more than 8 million times between September 2008 and October 2009, according to a company manager who disclosed the statistic...
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Bank Thieves Foiled by GPS-Spiked Cash
Forget exploding dye packs. Three thieves who made off with about $9,000 in cash from an Illinois bank were thwarted by a GPS device inserted in the cash that led authorities straight to their door,...
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Feds: Privacy Does Not Exist in ‘Public Places’
The Obama administration has urged a federal appeals court to allow the government, without a court warrant, to affix GPS devices on suspects’ vehicles to track their every move. The Justice Department...
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FTC Proposes Stricter Youth Online Privacy Rules
The Federal Trade Commission proposed Thursday to revamp its online child privacy rules to reflect the ubiquity of smartphones and geolocation services.
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OnStar Tracks Your Car Even When You Cancel Service
OnStar, the popular in-car navigation and emergency system, is notifying its users that it will track their location and speed even if users cancel service. And it reserves the right to sell that data.
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With iOS 5 You’ll Be Stalked Like Never Before
New tracking capabilities in iOS 5 let apps send you really cool or really creepy messages targeted to your location. A new kind of feature creep?
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Courts Can’t Agree on Whether Cops Can Track Your Cell Without a Warrant
Prosecutors are shifting their focus to warrantless cell-tower locational tracking of criminal suspects in the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling 18 months ago that law enforcement should acquire...
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