As consumers and regulators become more skeptical of how companies collect user data, one startup has raised another round to build out ways to help brands become more relevant with how they use ...

Your smartphone could be broadcasting your location without you knowing it. Find out how this happens and how to keep your ...

The bill is expected to blanket ban companies and startups from selling people's precise location data across the state.

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld nearly $200 million in fines against Verizon and AT&T for selling customer location data, ...

In the midst of an uproar over ways that Apple and Google collect and store location information from mobile phones, Microsoft has laid out details about its Windows Phone 7 data collection policies.

I've been an iPhone user for a long time, and I'm very mindful of who I share my location with or what apps and services get access to location data. I block apps from tracking me, and I do not share ...

Imagine you’re running a financial services company. You want to be drenched in insights. You want to know who your customers are. You want to know who your best customers are. You want to know who is ...

A House committee wants a briefing with Google by May 7 about the database law enforcement has tapped for location data. Richard Nieva was a senior reporter for CNET News, focusing on Google and Yahoo ...

Google is rolling out significant changes to its Maps Timeline feature, which tracks your location history. As part of this update, you will soon receive notifications that your Timeline data will be ...