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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 has agreed to pay nearly $392 million in a settlement with 40 states over allegations that the company tracked people through their devices after location tracking had been turned off, a ...

But with the Google Maps location data from Android smartphones, something else is possible: You can see at a glance where you have been particularly often and where you rarely go. This is made ...

Chandraveer, a seasoned mechanical design engineer turned tech reporter and reviewer, brings more than three years of rich experience in consumer tech journalism to the table, having contributed to ...