Sept. 16, 2021 | by Christina Maxouris | CNN | Local and federal authorities are looking for 22-year-old Gabby Petito, who was reported missing by her family over the weekend after she had been traveling with her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie. Laundrie returned to the pair’s North Port, Florida, home earlier this month without Petito and […]
Sept. 14, 2021 | by Andrea Vittorio | Bloomberg Law | Privacy advocates and criminal defense lawyers are looking to a robbery case in a Virginia federal court as a high-profile legal test for law enforcement’s growing use of location data from Alphabet Inc.’s Google to identify suspects. The robbery case, which is expected to […]
Thurs. Aug. 19, 2021 | By Zack Whittaker | TechCrunch | For the first time, Google has published the number of geofence warrants it’s historically received from U.S. authorities, providing a rare glimpse into how frequently these controversial warrants are issued. The figures, published Thursday, reveal that Google has received thousands of geofence warrants each quarter since […]
Wed. Aug. 18, 2021 | By Matt O’Brien | ABC News | The names, Social Security numbers and information from driver’s licenses or other identification of just over 40 million people who applied for T-Mobile credit were exposed in a recent data breach, the company said Wednesday NEW YORK — The names, Social Security numbers […]
Fri. Aug 13, 2021 | Author Unk. | wired | Carriers know where you are every time your phone reconnects to the cell network but with Pretty Good Phone Privacy, they wouldn’t have to. LOCATION DATA SHARING from wireless carriers has been a major privacy issue in recent years. Marketers, salespeople, and even bounty hunters […]
