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

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

“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 ...

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 ...

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 records also assert that this data is "100 percent opt-in," that cell phone users "voluntarily" share the location information, and that it is collected with consent of the app user and ...

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.