COLUMBUS, Ohio – An Ohio Senate committee passed bipartisan legislation Tuesday that creates a new criminal charge of using a device or app to track a person without their consent. The bill comes in ...

For the first time in human history, the average Joe can track their family and friends’ exact locations at all times. Any phone offers the seductive ability to “find my people,” to conjure them in ...

As governments around the world turn to technology to help fight the spread of COVID-19, a majority of Americans are skeptical that tracking someone’s location through their cellphone would help curb ...

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INDIANAPOLIS — State legislators have filed multiple bills that would make tracking someone with a GPS device without their knowledge a crime in Indiana. The legislation is motivated by escalating ...

Knowledge is power. That is more true today than ever before. With a little bit of information, anyone can learn almost anything about anyone. If a particularly malicious hacker obtains the right (or ...

Administrators tracking someone’s personal cellphone to monitor their location sounds like something the Communist Party might do in China. But it’s happening right here. Multiple colleges across the ...

It's the stuff of spy movies: someone plants a GPS tracker or Apple AirTag in your car without your consent and uses it to track your every move. While this may seem like a farfetched scenario, it's ...

Knowing someone is online lets you have instant conversations. However, smartphones, including iPhones, do not have a built-in online status feature at the operating system level because of privacy ...