Location data sharing from wireless carriers has been a major privacy issue in recent years. Marketers, salespeople, and even bounty hunters were able to pay shadowy third-party companies to track ...

Two U.S. data brokers have agreed not to collect private location data on Americans as part of a pair of settlements with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, which accused the companies of unlawfully ...

Verizon lost an attempt to overturn a $46.9 million fine for selling customer location data without its users’ consent. The US Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit rejected Verizon’s challenge in a ...

Precise location data from advertising IDs and mobile apps can be used for surveillance that, according to the FTC, puts millions of Americans at risk. Precise location data from advertising IDs and ...

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Monday that it is fining the four U.S. major wireless carriers around $200 million in total for “illegally” sharing and selling customers’ real-time ...

Compliance management can seem daunting for companies that manage multiple business regulations. This is especially true for ...

Quick question: Do you think it’s illegal for companies to sell your location data? If you said yes, you’re not alone. However, T-Mobile might beg to differ. Fortunately for privacy advocates, the ...

The country’s largest wireless carriers not only know where you are every time you make a phone call or use your data connection, but they routinely hold onto that location information for months and ...

Imagine receiving an email from an unknown actor claiming to have taken approximately 2 terabytes of data from your organization’s network. The threat actor provides a file tree and sample files to ...

Starting this month, the NYC Office of Technology and Innovation’s Office of Data Analytics (ODA) will start to convene working groups to establish a citywide data governance program and create ...