Hackers have stolen a database that appears to include location data from tens of millions of devices. This location info seems to have originated from the ad-bidding process used by popular apps.

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 ...

A misconfiguration in a cloud environment made data from hundreds of thousands of Volkswagen AG vehicles available online, multiple publications reported today. The issue was brought to the attention ...

UKRAINE - 2023/02/21: In this photo illustration, the Google Maps logo is seen on a smartphone screen. (Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Location data has ...

Nowadays, almost every app you download asks for location permissions, meaning it wants to track where you are and your movements. For an app like Google Maps, requesting location access makes perfect ...