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

The cell phone "locator" can be either set on "E911" in which case you must dial out to be located, or it can be set to be on all the time.

Without question, the global COVID-19 pandemic has increased our reliance on mobile and location technology from using public network data to building contact tracing apps to establishing contactless ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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, ...