If you use a mobile phone with location services turned on, it is likely that data about where you live and work, where you ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Buying and selling mobile phone location data is rampant, and it has spawned a billion-dollar industry, but legislatures in Massachusetts are looking for a near-total ban on the practice. Selling ...

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 ...

Three civil liberties groups have asked a U.S. appeals court to strike down a federal government request to obtain stored mobile phone location-tracking information without showing probable cause. The ...