A 6-3 ruling over Google Location History raises the stakes for companies that collect, store, or profit from data about ...

The ACLU provides a range of tactics for communities to stop or limit the use of Flock’s ALPR mass surveillance technology Americans across the country have objected the privacy invasion of the ...

The Supreme Court has held that constitutional privacy protections extend to cellphone location information, ruling in the ...

Google has developed a smartphone-based system that estimates heart rate and resting heart rate using only the phone’s front-facing camera and on-device AI. The technology reportedly delivers wearable ...

A new Supreme Court ruling will require police to have probable cause before using sweeping geofence warrants that rely on ...

The case involved “geofence” searches, which allow law enforcement to find suspects and witnesses by sweeping up location data from cellphones near crime scenes.

The Fourth Amendment protects a user’s “location history,” the Supreme Court ruled Monday. The same logic already applied to ...

The majority found that a request by police for Google to turn over a suspect’s location history constituted a search ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

Unwary crime suspects could be tracked by investigators who had access to their phone location records.

The high court on Monday ruled that the use of a “geofence warrant” to capture location data from cell phones in search of a ...

The FAA recently launched the DISCOVR API, a new capability that gives authorized public safety agencies access to additional information about drones operating in their area. When a drone broadcasts ...