Mobile location technology has advanced significantly to address this. From GPS to indoor mapping tools, it now helps pinpoint locations with impressive accuracy.

In a unanimous decision, the Ohio Supreme Court said location information voluntarily given to cell phone applications is not protected by the 4th Amendment.

Selling Your Cellphone Location Data Might Soon Be Banned in U.S. for First Time Massachusetts considers law at the vanguard of a broader movement to protect consumer privacy By ...

“Venntel has a mobile location data intelligence platform that leverages the unclassified, commercially available mobile advertising ecosystem,” a CBP official wrote in an email in March 2018.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) used mobile location data to track people’s movements on a much larger scale than previously known, according to new documents unearthed by the American ...

Two other companies selling mobile location data, SafeGraph and Placer.ai, agreed to stop selling abortion clinic-related location data in July following political pressure from Sen. Elizabeth ...

The Department of Homeland Security is purchasing cell phone location data on a massive scale, according to documents released by the American Civil Liberties Union. Per the documents, hundreds of ...

Data brokers are able to buy and sell cell phone location data to anyone with a credit card without many restrictions. "There's very little in terms of law that prevents companies from doing this, ...

While it's easy enough to turn off location on your phone wholesale, some apps won't work without location services enabled for them. Apple provides a way to get around this.