Digital life
fromwww.dw.com
5 days agoDangerous Apps In the Web of Data Brokers
Smartphone apps collect detailed location data, often shared with data brokers, posing security risks to users, including soldiers and government officials.
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Privacy professionals
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month agoWhy is the FBI buying people's location data and how is it using the information?
The FBI resumes purchasing commercially available location data on Americans, circumventing warrant requirements and Fourth Amendment protections against warrantless surveillance.
Privacy professionals
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month agoWhy is the FBI buying people's location data and how is it using the information?
The FBI resumes purchasing commercially available location data on Americans, circumventing warrant requirements and Fourth Amendment protections against warrantless surveillance.
Privacy professionals
fromArs Technica
1 month agoFBI started buying Americans' location data again, Kash Patel confirms
The FBI has restarted purchasing Americans' location data without warrants, with Director Kash Patel defending the practice as valuable for national security despite previous claims of stopping it.
Marketing tech
fromThedrum
1 month agoAdColony Partners with Lifesight to Bring Industry-Leading Mobile Video and Location Intelligence to Advertisers in Asia-Pacific
AdColony and Lifesight partnership combines mobile video advertising with retail footfall data to provide transparent, measurable campaign results for APAC advertisers.
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Privacy professionals
fromTheregister
1 month ago70 US lawmakers demand probe into ICE's data purchases
Seventy US lawmakers demand investigation into whether DHS agencies illegally purchased Americans' location data without warrants, as ICE resumes purchases despite prior findings of illegal activity.
Privacy professionals
fromAdExchanger
1 month agoAd Tech Says It's Not In The Surveillance Business. Now Is The Time To Prove It | AdExchanger
Commercial ad tech and location-data tools risk being repurposed for government investigations, creating urgent privacy, ethical, and regulatory concerns for vendors and users.
US politics
fromDataBreaches.Net
2 months agoStopICE Hacked: Names And Locations of Over 100k Users Were Sent to the FBI, ICE and HSI - DataBreaches.Net
A StopICE security breach exposed sensitive personal data and precise GPS locations of over 100,000 users to federal agencies, creating serious privacy and First Amendment concerns.
fromTechRepublic
2 months agoApple Introduces New iPhone Location Privacy Setting
Your iPhone might soon stop telling your wireless carrier exactly where you're standing, and law enforcement won't like it. Apple this week began rolling out a privacy feature that lets users blur their location data before it reaches cellular networks, limiting what carriers can see to just your general neighborhood instead of your precise street address. The move comes as phone companies face mounting scrutiny over how location data gets shared with authorities and targeted by hackers.
Privacy technologies
Marketing tech
fromExchangewire
4 months agoBedrock Adopts LocID to Solve IP Signal Instability, Enabling Clearer, More Reliable Audience Insights & Activation
LocID provides a stable, privacy-safe location identifier that keeps IP-based identity signals consistent across campaigns, improving measurement, reach, and cross-channel activation.
fromTechCrunch
5 months agoPhone location data of top EU officials for sale, report finds | TechCrunch
A coalition of reporters obtained the dataset, offered as a free sample from a data broker, containing 278 million location data points from the phones of millions of people around Belgium. Much of the location data is uploaded by ordinary apps installed on a person's phones, which is sold to data brokers. Those data brokers then sell that data to governments and militaries.
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fromEuractiv
6 months agoIreland's data scandal put homes, clinics, and bases on the map - for sale | Euractiv
Weak GDPR enforcement in Ireland allowed near-real-time phone location data of tens of thousands to be sold online, enabling tracking from sensitive sites back to likely homes.
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