Topic
Location-Based Services
48 published works
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Waze app vulnerable to driver tracking
In the category of being careful with location based services when using apps, researchers at the University of California-Santa Barbara have discovered a vulnerability in the popular Waze app that…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Privacy Tip # 33 – Shopper tracking billboards
I have commented before on the use of location based services on mobile telephones and that apps (and your telecommunications provider) use and sell your location data for all sorts…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
How far have we gone with license-plate photos and locational tracking? Too far…
Vigilant Solutions is a company that takes photographs of cars and trucks using its network of cameras. What’s the big deal, traffic cameras are always recording our plates? Well not…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Boston’s MBTA joins the bluetooth beacon bus –it will now track the movement of its riders
If you don’t think you are being tracked as you move around Target or Macy’s or even through a local museum, you must not have a smartphone. Many companies are…
Global Media and Communications Watch
FTC’s Latest Location-Tracking Settlement Reminds Companies to Mind any Gap Between What They Say and What They Do
On April 23, the FTC accepted an administrative consent order with Nomi Technologies, Inc., which uses mobile device tracking technology to provide analytics services to retailers through its “Listen” service.…
HL Chronicle of Data Protection
FTC’s Latest Location-Tracking Settlement Reminds Companies to Mind Any Gap Between What They Say and What They Do
By HL Chronicle of Data Protection
On April 23, the FTC accepted an administrative consent order with Nomi Technologies, Inc., which uses mobile device tracking technology to provide analytics services to retailers through its “Listen” service.…
AdLaw By Request®
Knowing Your Customer a Little Too Well
I hate shopping. I know what I want and I do a surgical strike. In and out; no soldier left behind. But most normal people browse a bit. That’s where…
LawSites
Everywhere You Go, Google is Watching — and Mapping Your Location
I was in Chicago this week for the Clio Cloud Conference, where I sat in horrified disbelief as keynote speaker Cindy Cohn, legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, described…
Internet, IT & e-Discovery
Big Data and IoT Data Analysis – Who Has Privacy?
By Peter Vogel
Given the size of the Big Data and IoT (Internet of Things) it is clear that we really have no privacy, just consider Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s opinion that “GPS monitoring…
The Right Coast
When Other Apps Track Your Location, This App Tells | MIT Technology Review
A new app notifies people when an Android smartphone app is tracking their location, something not previously possible without modifying the operating system on a device, a practice known as…