New York Times analyzes a leaked set of location data from a private broker,...
In 2017, a string of reports revealed that data-brokers were acquiring and linking titanic sets of location data from apps and mobile carriers and mining that data (and sometimes selling it outright)....
View ArticleAT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon face FCC fines after probe finds they failed...
AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, and Verizon are among the telecommunications carriers facing hundreds of millions of dollars in fines from the Federal Communications Commission after a federal...
View ArticleHow one guy's exercise routine made him a burglary suspect, thanks to...
At 30-years-old, Zachary McCoy was really getting his shit together. He'd recently finished his associate's degree in computer programming, and he was exercising on the reg, riding his bike around his...
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Ignoring warrants, the Secret Service has been buying up location data from...
Vice's Motherboard reports that the US Secret Service paid for a product called Locate X that collects location data from tons of shady cell phone apps. It's the kind of information that you might not...
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FBI admits to circumventing warrant laws by using capitalism instead
Surprise! The FBI has been involved in warrantless surveillance! But that's not particularly surprising; we've known that for a while now (even in some pundits like to pretend as if it's absolutely...
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