#location-privacy

#location-privacy

Data gathered from smartphones enables service providers to infer a wide range of personal information about their users, such as their traits, their personality, and their demographics. This personal information can be made available to third parties, such as advertisers, sometimes unbeknownst to the users. Leveraging location information, advertisers can serve ads micro-targeted to users based on the places they visited. Understanding the types of information that can be extracted from location data and implications in terms of user privacy is of critical importance,

Washington became the eighth state to enshrine the right to repair. Several states stepped up to protect the privacy of location data, with bills recognizing your location data isn't just a pin on a map-it's a powerful tool that reveals far more than most people realize. Other state legislators moved to protect health privacy. And California passed a law making it easier for people to exercise their privacy rights under the state's consumer data privacy law.

Huawei's latest update to its Google Maps alternative called Petal Maps is now out, and it brings with it a very useful new feature. Namely, you can use navigation directions without being connected to the internet. This is live as of version 5.3.0.302. Obviously, to use this you first need to download the maps for the area you're going to navigate through, which you can do using the Offline Map Resource Package.