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fromAdExchanger
3 hours ago

Ad 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.
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fromBleacher Nation
1 week ago

Why Does a Sportsbook App Want My Location? Is It Safe to Allow Access? - Bleacher Nation

Sportsbook apps require location access to verify users are physically within legal state boundaries before allowing wagers, ensuring regulatory compliance.
US politics
fromDataBreaches.Net
2 weeks ago

StopICE 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 weeks ago

Apple 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
Privacy professionals
fromWhoWhatWhy
3 weeks ago

Saturday Hashtag: #TheDataEconomyThreat - WhoWhatWhy

Many popular smartphone apps collect and sell precise personal data, enabling commercial brokers and government agencies to access Americans' private digital activities without consent.
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fromWIRED
3 weeks ago
US politics

ICE Asks Companies About 'Ad Tech and Big Data' Tools It Could Use in Investigations

fromWIRED
3 weeks ago
Privacy technologies

ICE Asks Companies About 'Ad Tech and Big Data' Tools It Could Use in Investigations

fromWIRED
3 weeks ago
US politics

ICE Asks Companies About 'Ad Tech and Big Data' Tools It Could Use in Investigations

fromWIRED
3 weeks ago
Privacy technologies

ICE Asks Companies About 'Ad Tech and Big Data' Tools It Could Use in Investigations

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Privacy professionals
fromThe Drum
4 weeks ago

Forget the cookie - mobile network data provides next level consumer insight

Mobile network data provides privacy-first, highly accurate, and comprehensive audience insights because operators continuously collect location and usage information.
Marketing tech
fromExchangewire
2 months ago

Bedrock 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.
fromTheregister
2 months ago

X promptly catches fire after rolling out location feature

Not everyone online is necessarily who you think they are, and you shouldn't believe everything you read.
Privacy technologies
Marketing tech
fromThe Drum
3 months ago

Snapchat to let US advertisers track when customers visit their stores

Snapchat will provide anonymized location data and a Snap to Store tool to US advertisers to measure how Snapchat campaigns drive in-store visits.
EU data protection
fromTechCrunch
3 months ago

Phone location data of top EU officials for sale, report finds | TechCrunch

Commercially sold mobile location histories enabled easy tracking of top EU officials despite stringent European data protection laws.
Privacy professionals
fromThe Cipher Brief
4 months ago

The Hidden National Security Risk in Smart Cities

Smart-city sensors and data brokerage practices expose continuous, location-linked personal and sensitive information of U.S. military and intelligence personnel, posing national security risks.
EU data protection
fromEuractiv
4 months ago

Ireland'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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