Topic
Location Data
114 published works
The Right Coast
New York City to Consider Banning Sale of Cellphone Location Data – The New York Times
Telecommunications firms and mobile-based apps make billions of dollars per year by selling customer location data to marketers and other businesses, offering a vast window into the whereabouts of cellphone…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
AT&T Sued by CA Customers for Selling Location Data to Aggregators
AT&T was sued this week in the Northern District of California by customers alleging that AT&T sold their location data to data aggregators without their consent. The proposed class action…
Future Lawyer
Google Knows Where You Are And Where You’ve Been
By rickgeorges
Google unveils auto-delete for location, Web activity, and app usage data | Ars Technica. Google knows. I am not just talking about your physical location and where you've been and…
The Data Advisor
France: CNIL Issues Formal Notices Against Two Marketing Platforms for Lack of Valid Consent for the Processing of Location Data
In July 2018, the French data protection authority (the CNIL) issued two public formal notices against two marketing platform providers— Teemo1 and Fidzup2—for failing to obtain valid consent under the…
Data Counsel
The Weekly Privacy Rewind
Class Actions San Francisco Transit Agency Seeks Approval of Class Action Settlement • Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) sought preliminary approval of a class action settlement to resolve claims that…
Socially Aware Blog
Location Information Is Protected by the 4th Amendment, SCOTUS Rules
By Robert S. Litt, Sophia M. Brill
As close observers of the implications of privacy law on companies’ data collection, usage and disclosure practices, we at Socially Aware were among the many tech-law enthusiasts anticipating the U.S.…
Inside Privacy
Supreme Court’s Carpenter Decision Requires Warrant for Cell Phone Location Data
By Jim Garland
In a decision that defines how the Fourth Amendment applies to information collected in the digital age, the Supreme Court today held that police must use a warrant to obtain…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Privacy Tip #140 – Your Cellphone Location Is Being Sold and Leaked
I have been watching several articles published by ZDNet with interest. First, ZDNet reported that “four of the largest cell giants in the US are selling your real-time location data…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
Senator Wyden Calls for FCC Investigation into Company Sharing Location Data
On May 8, 2018, Senator Ron Wyden (D–OR) demanded that the FCC investigate the alleged unauthorized tracking of Americans' location by Securus Technologies.
Inside Privacy
The Supreme Court Arguments in Carpenter Show that It May Be Time to Redefine the “Third-Party Doctrine”
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Carpenter v. U. S., a case that involved the collection of 127 days of Petitioner Thomas Carpenter’s cell site location information…