On January 8, 2025, the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a Final Rule, now referred to as the Data Security Program (DSP), that establishes sweeping new restrictions on access to sensitive personal ...
Every time you carry your phone into a doctor’s office, a place of worship, or a domestic violence shelter, apps on that ...
Hochman said Friday that General Motors has agreed to pay $12.75 million to resolve a civil consumer-protection lawsuit ...
Verizon lost an attempt to overturn a $46.9 million fine for selling customer location data without its users’ consent. The US Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit rejected Verizon’s challenge in a ...
The FTC has moved to prohibit Kochava and its subsidiary, Collective Data Solutions (CDS), from selling, sharing, or ...
A location-tracking company that sells its services to police departments is apparently using addresses and coordinates of doctors’ and lawyers’ offices and other types of locations to help cops ...
The FCC fined AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile over the mishandling of customers' location-based data. The companies plan of fighting it. Credit: Getty Images The U.S.'s major wireless carriers are ...
A hack of location data company Gravy Analytics has revealed which apps are—knowingly or not—being used to collect your information behind the scenes. Some of the world’s most popular apps are likely ...
A whole industry of data brokers buys up vast quantities of electronic information from cell phone apps and web browsers and sells it to advertisers who use that data to target ads. The same industry ...
The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) investigative work lives and dies by data integrity. Case files, status changes, and cross-system rollups determine where agents spend time, which leads get ...