The social media platform changed its privacy policy last month, inviting users to allow it to track their specific location.

Your exact location is a tidbit of information that can infringe on your privacy. Knowing your location all the time can help someone map your life. Were you at the pool hall during working hours? Did ...

Facebook wants to know “What’s on your mind?” Twitter asks “What’s happening?” But that’s getting old already. The burning question for the next wave of social networking is “Where are you?”–and ...

Websites employ web tracking for collecting relevant information about their visitors to serve them personalized content. A subset of web tracking, which is widely used in location tracking these days ...

Geosense shows up as a location sensor in the Location and Other Sensors pane in Control Panel. It would be downright nutty to put a GPS sensor inside your desktop (unless maybe you’re sporting one of ...

Geolocation data—information on the movement of individuals or commodities sourced from mobile devices and transponders on shipping vessels—has emerged as a valuable dataset in investment firms’ ...