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Should you share your location with your partner?
Location sharing is popular among couples. But is it something you want in your own relationship?
Google failing to scrub abortion access in location history, study claims
A nonprofit study claims that Google is failing to delete location history that reveals users’ physical trips to abortion clinics.
Proposed Massachusetts law to ban sale of your mobile location data
Cellular location phone data may be banned from sale in the state of Massachusetts, under a proposed law set to ruffle…
Strava heatmap loophole may reveal users’ home addresses
Researchers at NC State University have outlined potential privacy issues with popular fitness app Strava which could lead to users’ homes…
Google to pay $40m for “deceptive and unfair” location tracking practices
Google is going to pay $39.9 million to Washington State to put to rest a lawsuit about its location tracking practices which…
3 reasons to use a VPN
There are many good reasons to use a Virtual Private Network (VPN), even if you are just casually scrolling. Privacy is…
Google Maps: online interventions with offline ramifications
The places where online life directly intersection with that lived offline will be forever fascinating, illustrated perfectly through a recent performance…
Location data leaks from family tracking app database
An app called Family Locator, which allows family members to keep track of one another recently experienced an exposed database issue of…