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This phone setting is tracking you — shut it off!

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The New York Times

Iran Turns to Digital Surveillance Tools to Track Down Protesters

As Iranian authorities restore some online services after crushing antigovernment demonstrations, they are using a technological dragnet to target attendees of the protests. By Adam Satariano Paul ...
ZDNet

I found a free Google Maps alternative that doesn't track my location (or kill my phone battery)

Privacy-first: no tracking or data collection. Offline maps and turn-by-turn directions save battery. Free, open-source app for Android and iOS. Every month, Google ...
Bleeping Computer

New Apple privacy feature limits location tracking on iPhones, iPads

Apple is introducing a new privacy feature that lets users limit the precision of location data shared with cellular networks on some iPhone and iPad models. The "Limit Precise Location" setting will ...
Forbes

Microsoft Starts Sharing Your Location With Your Employer In 6 Weeks

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. You have six weeks left to secretly work from home. Updated on Jan. 24 with new analysis on ...
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Boss hid a tracking feature on an employee’s work phone, so they pushed back by turning off their location

Some workplaces rely on technology to keep things running smoothly, but using that technology in an ethical manner still matters. One electrician suddenly realized his company-issued phone might be ...
Finextra

Top 6 Phone Tracker Apps for Real-Time Location Monitoring

In the chaotic modern life reality, we increasingly want an accurate way to determine where a loved one is in real time. Situations vary greatly. A child may be late for school. An elderly parent may ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Matt Damon Says Netflix Wants Plots Reiterated “Three or Four Times in the Dialogue” for Phone-Distracted Viewers

"It's going to really start to infringe on how we're telling these stories," 'The Rip' star recently told Joe Rogan. By Lexi Carson Associate Editor “I went to see One Battle After Another on IMAX — ...
TwinCities.com

Supreme Court will decide on use of warrants that collect the location history of cellphone users

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide the constitutionality of broad search warrants that collect the location history of cellphone users to find people near crime scenes. The ...
The New York Times

Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Warrants for Phone Location Data

The case involves a challenge to so-called geofence warrants, which permit law enforcement officials to sweep up location data of people near crime scenes. By Abbie VanSickle Reporting from Washington ...
CNN

Supreme Court agrees to decide if police can seek sweeping cellphone location data in investigations

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to review whether police warrants that allow access to large amounts of cellphone location data to identify people near a crime scene are constitutional. The practice ...