Alphabet Inc.’s Google is changing its Maps tool so that the company no longer has access to users' individual location histories, cutting off its ability to respond to law enforcement warrants that ...

Location data is now a monetizable asset— less about map tiles, directions, and location pins, and more about behavioral, ...

Privacy watchers and politicians say so, and they're calling the two tech titans to the mat to explain themselves. It should come as no surprise that location-based ...

FILE - The Google Maps app is seen on a smartphone, March 22, 2017, in New York. On Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023, the family of a North Carolina man who died after driving his car off a collapsed bridge ...

Google has agreed to a $391.5 million settlement with 40 states in connection with an investigation into how the company tracked users' locations, state attorneys general announced Monday, calling it ...

Google announced changes to the way it harvests your location data this week that will finally put a stop to its compliance with geofence warrants, a police surveillance technique that many say ...

University of California, San Francisco scientists are launching Covidseeker, a new study examining the spread of COVID-19 using people's self-donated Google location data. The researchers are asking ...

Google Maps, who are you? I'm incredibly surprised to see Google come up with privacy features I'd expect from a competitive navigation app. Not the search giant that makes billions of dollars each ...

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