A hot potato: Thousands of popular mobile apps across Android and iOS are allegedly being exploited to harvest sensitive location data on an unprecedented scale. This data collection, occurring ...

A security lapse at dating app Raw publicly exposed the personal data and private location data of its users, TechCrunch has found. The exposed data included users’ display names, dates of birth, ...

Hackers have stolen a database that appears to include location data from tens of millions of devices. This location info seems to have originated from the ad-bidding process used by popular apps.

Location features on mobile applications (apps) and devices can provide important information about consumers and be an asset for companies. Counsel should understand the regulations and case law ...

The Ohio Supreme Court ruled that location data voluntarily provided to apps is not protected by the Fourth Amendment. The ruling stems from a robbery case where police used location data from the ...

Gravy Analytics has amassed a vast trove of people's mobile locations, making it a potentially attractive target for a hacker. On Sunday, a hacker claimed they’d stolen terabytes of data from Gravy ...

A hack of location data company Gravy Analytics has revealed which apps are—knowingly or not—being used to collect your information behind the scenes. Some of the world’s most popular apps are likely ...

It was discovered last year that location data for US military and intelligence personnel serving overseas was being sold by a Florida-based data broker, but the source of that sensitive data was ...

Mobile applications are quietly attracting more and more malevolent attention — and for good reason. They contain a trove of private information about their users. In the iOS universe alone, 82.78%, ...

Nowadays, almost every app you download asks for location permissions, meaning it wants to track where you are and your movements. For an app like Google Maps, requesting location access makes perfect ...

This week, a hack has brought cybersecurity back into the spotlight, revealing something big. However, the attack wasn’t targeting users, but rather a “data-scraper” company that is harvesting the ...

AngelSense, an assistive technology company that provides location monitoring devices for people with disabilities, was spilling the personally identifiable information and precise location data of ...