(The Conversation) – If you use a mobile phone with location services turned on, it is likely that data about where you live and work, where you shop for groceries, where you go to church and see your ...

Of all of the recent technological developments that have expanded the surveillance capabilities of law enforcement agencies at the expense of individual privacy, perhaps the most powerful is cell ...

The U.S. National Security Agency collects five billion records every day tracking cell phone movements around the world, according to documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. In ...

A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that police must obtain a search warrant from a judge if they want tracking data of a suspect from cellphone towers, the Associated Press reported. Obtaining ...

Journalists in Europe found it was “easy” to spy on top European Union officials using commercially obtained location histories sold by data brokers, despite the continent having some of the strongest ...

On Christmas Day, a 15-year-old girl took her dog for a walk but didn’t return at her usual time. Authorities credit her ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. Republished on September 28 with new Gemini privacy warning as ...