Fri. Feb. 5, 2021 |By Charlie Warzel and Stuart A. Thompson – Opinion | In 2019, a source came to us with a digital file containing the precise locations of more than 12 million individual smartphones for several months in 2016 and 2017. The data is supposed to be anonymous, but it isn’t. We found celebrities, Pentagon officials and average Americans. It […]
Fri. Jan. 29, 2021 |By Jaclyn Ramkissoon – KXAN News | LULING, Texas (KXAN) — More details have been released in the ongoing search for missing Texas State University student Jason Landry, including cell phone data tracking his travel before his car crashed. Landry, 21, disappeared in mid December on his way home to Missouri […]
Fri. Jan. 29, 2021 |By Andrew Hamm – SCOTUSblog | This week the SCOTUS Blog highlights cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether law enforcement can compel testimony in the form of a phone passcode. A law enforcement officer became the subject of an investigation for allegedly passing information […]
Thurs. Jan. 28, 2021 |By Kelly Hill – RCR Wireless News | AT&T-FirstNet is now offering first responders vertical location capabilities in more than 100 markets, ahead of an April 2021 FCC deadline for having the technology in place to support 911 callers on mobile devices. The z-axis location information is one of several new technology […]
Wed. Jan. 26, 2021 |By Zak Doffman – Forbes | A new warning today for the hundreds of millions of users with TikTok’s app on their phones. If you have your phone number linked to your profile, you should remove it—but, beware, that’s very difficult to do. And while your number is still there, TikTok […]
