Chances are you’re not an international spy, a member of an organized crime family or a drug smuggler, but in a world where ...

Microsoft is planning to deliver mobile phone location-based data to developers through a partnership between its MapPoint Location Server (MLS) and several network operators, including O2 in the UK.

After Google made “geofence” data warrants on its users technically infeasible, feds are still making similar demands on telecoms giants, even if the location data is, by law enforcement’s own ...

Ericsson is courting major banks with a security service the company thinks could cut down on credit card fraud as well as eliminate an inconvenience for travelers using cards overseas. Banks are ...

This is pretty cool, I didn't realize that this technology is now available to Joe Schmoe. On this site you can enter a mobile number and it will use GPS and cell triangulation to find the physical ...

A group of U.S. lawmakers has introduced legislation that would require law enforcement agencies to get court-ordered search warrants before obtaining a suspect’s mobile phone location or GPS data, ...

A hot potato: Thousands of popular mobile apps across Android and iOS are allegedly being exploited to harvest sensitive location data on an unprecedented scale. This data collection, occurring ...

Lawmakers in Massachusetts are in the process of considering a bill that would ban the sale of mobile phone location data, which would make the state the first in the U.S. to restrict what has become ...

The use of mobile phone location data to solve crimes has come under scrutiny in Denmark after a glitch that has thrown thousands of cases into question and led to the release of more than 30 ...