For the first time, geolocation—the identification of the location of an individual or an object using technology—will see its day in court. The named plaintiff representing the class, Guillermo Mata, ...

Websites employ web tracking for collecting relevant information about their visitors to serve them personalized content. A subset of web tracking, which is widely used in location tracking these days ...

Facebook wants to know “What’s on your mind?” Twitter asks “What’s happening?” But that’s getting old already. The burning question for the next wave of social networking is “Where are you?”–and ...

U.S. legislators have reintroduced bills that would place curbs on warrantless access by the government to electronically generated geolocation information of Americans, including on the use of ...

Microsoft has restricted its Wi-Fi-powered geolocation database after a researcher investigating Wi-Fi geolocation and position tracking raised privacy concerns about the information recorded. This ...

Whenever a new privacy rule comes on the scene, people immediately look for a workaround. Virginia’s ban on the sale of precise geolocation data will be no exception; its narrow definition of a “sale” ...

Groundbreaking Illinois legislation meant to protect mobile phone users from having their location information trafficked by companies without their permission is ...

Only request location information when necessary Only use the location information for the tasks it was requested for Dispose of location information once the task is complete, unless granted ...