Of all of the recent technological developments that have expanded the surveillance capabilities of law enforcement agencies at the expense of individual privacy, perhaps the most powerful is cell ...

Authorities, with the help of cell phone companies, can use a technique called triangulation, or "pinging," to figure out exactly where a cell phone is. Triangulation works because cell phones ...

In March 2020, federal officials declared the COVID-19 outbreak a national emergency. Around the same time, most states implemented stay-at-home advisories - to different degrees and at different ...

A cell phone tracker software monitors a device's location and movements with the intent to follow the whereabouts of a person, assuming they have their phone with them. The public was allowed access ...

(StudyFinds.org) – Mobile phones give users a reassuring button that tells them they can keep apps and companies from tracking their location. Unfortunately, researchers at the University of Southern ...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) inspector general is investigating the government's use of cell phone location data obtained without search warrants. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), ...

Governments and the private sector are increasingly relying on data-driven technologies to help contain the novel coronavirus, Covid-19. While some see technological solutions as a critical tool for ...

Yesterday the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an unfortunate and legally incorrect decision holding that the Fourth Amendment provides no protection against warrantless cell phone tracking.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) used mobile location data to track people’s movements on a much larger scale than previously known, according to new documents unearthed by the American Civil ...