7 stories tagged location-data, newest first.
70 points by DeepLogin | 31 comments
Irish Data Protection Commission press release announcing a €403 million fine against Google following an inquiry into its processing of location data.
578 points by cdrnsf | 276 comments
Guardian news article reporting that the US Supreme Court ruled law enforcement geofence warrants for smartphone location data require constitutional privacy protections.
695 points by hn_acker | 176 comments
Lawfare article by Tom Uren, from the Seriously Risky Business newsletter, arguing that the sale of precise geolocation data should be banned.
392 points by jbegley | 143 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that FBI director Kash Patel confirmed the bureau buys commercial location data to track US citizens, prompted by questioning from Sen. Wyden.
497 points by ece | 192 comments
404 Media article reporting that US Customs and Border Protection used data from the online advertising ecosystem to track people's locations and movements.
614 points by nobody9999 | 75 comments
Ars Technica article on a court rejecting Verizon's claim that selling customer location data without consent was legal, amid a circuit split with AT&T's case.
500 points by pondsider | 122 comments
WSJ article on a proposed Massachusetts law that would be the first U.S. ban on selling cellphone location data.