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Documents obtained by the ACLU through a FOIA lawsuit reveal that federal agencies under the Department of Homeland Security are contracting with data brokers such as Venntel and Babel Street to buy huge amounts of location data without requiring any judicial oversight.
Canada says company misled users while collecting "vast amounts of location data."
A huge but little-known industry has cropped up around monetizing people’s movements
We dig into geofence / keyword search warrants, where police request broad data near the scene of a crime - or not near a crime scene at all.
Looking for arsonists, police swept up protestors’ data
Google has been ordered by a court to hand over information from phones near arson attacks on a library and museum in last year’s Kenosha, Wisconsin, riots despite some protesters being filmed trying to put out the fires.
Why Google thought twice about restoring your privacy.
Otonomo says its vehicle location data is privacy-protecting. The data itself says otherwise.
We recently wrote about another reason to be critical of the data–especially imagery–when it can be misinterpreted and when it can be deliberately faked. Included in that essay was a br…
A school custodian says she was fired after refusing to put an app on her phone that checked her location, citing privacy concerns. As more people work remotely in the pandemic, "tattleware" that tracks employees’ productivity is on the rise, prompting lawyers to call for more protections.
What are modern best strategies for finding geospatial data? Despite the increase in volume and variety of spatial data even in the 8 years since we have been writing this column, I still receive …