Today we're going to touch on the latest news in how your phone is selling your location to 3rd party companies – and we're going to discuss why this is important. The most common thing I hear when I ...

Apps like iLocationChanger make it easier to fake a GPS location on your phone to any place in the world. In a world where location-based apps dominate our daily lives, having control over your GPS ...

In the current Digital Age, technology has made it easy for you to track someone. Before, you would've needed to hire the services of a private detective to find a long-lost acquaintance. Now, however ...

You likely have never heard of Babel Street or Location X, but chances are good that they know a lot about you and anyone else you know who keeps a phone nearby around the clock. Reston, ...

Modern smartphones have long been equipped with location-aware features that combine global positioning system (GPS) hardware with other features like Wi-Fi and cellular triangulation to help get an ...

WASHINGTON — Have you ever talked about something you need or want, and then minutes later, you see an ad for it on your phone? It can make you suspicious that your device is listening to you. Piyush ...

Microsoft this week announced four new security features for the Microsoft Authenticator app that can be used for confirming mobile device user identities. Two of the features are at the preview stage ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. If you don’t want to let anyone know where you are or where you’ve been, what do you do? You ...

It’s no secret anymore. Nearly everything you do online is tracked or recorded and used to learn more about you. Many of your data points end up on creepy people search sites. You'll be shocked to ...

AT&T on Tuesday announced the launch of a new location-based routing system for emergency calls in the United States, with the system designed to transmit wireless 911 calls to the appropriate 911 ...

GPS guides us to places or helps us track our online orders. But the "fine-grained" data collected by it on Android smartphones can reveal far more than just the location, quietly exposing a person's ...