Location Tracking articles

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  Federal agents used Stingray phone location tracker without informing judges

  By Jacob Kastrenakes on March 27, 2013 09:40 pm + 21 comments

  Federal agents regularly used a cellphone location tracking device known as a Stingray without Continue reading…

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  Facebook reportedly planning friend-finding app that will track your location

  By Adi Robertson on February 4, 2013 05:24 pm + 35 comments

  Facebook is developing its own mobile location tracker, Bloomberg reports. According to two Continue reading…

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  Evado Filip's location-tracking device can watch children and control their phone calls

  By T.C. Sottek on January 8, 2013 08:16 pm + 8 comments

  Evado Filip has announced the VivoPlay, "what is believed to be" the world's smallest Continue reading…

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  After losing GPS-tracking case at high court, FBI goes after warrantless cell-site location data

  By T.C. Sottek on December 18, 2012 03:17 pm + 10 comments

  Antoine Jones, a Washington D.C. nightclub owner accused of running a major cocaine ring, won a case Continue reading…

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  Google updates My Tracks app for Android with Google Earth integration and statistics tracking

  By Kimber Streams on July 13, 2012 04:11 pm + 5 comments

  Google's latest update of My Tracks for Android has revamped the UI and added several new features, Continue reading…

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  The Quotidian Record inscribes a year of location data onto a vinyl EP

  By Joshua Kopstein on July 5, 2012 01:49 pm + 4 comments

  When it was discovered last year that devices made by Apple and others were recording location data Continue reading…

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  Apple must face class-action lawsuit for location tracking, but judge dismisses Google and other defendants

  By Nathan Ingraham on June 13, 2012 06:03 pm + 66 comments

  We heard last month that Apple would have to go ahead and face a class-action lawsuit because of Continue reading…

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  Class action against Apple for location tracking moves forward

  By Aaron Souppouris on May 5, 2012 12:57 pm + 52 comments

  Northern California District Judge Lucy Koh has ruled that Apple will face a lawsuit over last Continue reading…

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  ACLU finds US police departments regularly track phone location, usually without a warrant

  By Dieter Bohn on April 2, 2012 10:32 pm + 21 comments

  The American Civil Liberties Union has conducted a study in which it requested information from over Continue reading…

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  The Stingray: the cellphone tracker the government won't talk about

  By Joseph Parish on November 4, 2011 10:39 am + 54 comments

  The government has the ability to track cellphones using the portable device pictured above called Continue reading…