location tracking
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Australia’s Federal Court Found Google Misled Users About Personal Location Data
The Federal Court has found Google misled some users about personal location data collected through Android devices for two years, from January 2017 to December 2018. The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) says this decision is a “world first” in relation to Google’s location privacy settings. The ACCC now intends to seek various orders…
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Stop Posting Your Running Routes Online
It can be hard to resist the impulse of sharing your fitness progress on social media. Who can say no to the dopamine rush of random people and friends cheering you on? You. That’s who. Don’t be the dingbat who advertises where you’ll likely be on a regular, reoccurring basis!
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How To Turn Off Location Tracking On Your Phone
How phones track location is changing – if you’ve upgraded to the latest Android 10 or iOS 13 updates, you may have noticed more prompts around what apps can do with data about your whereabouts. Here’s what those new prompts mean, and how you can get your phone’s location tracking settings set up in a…
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Apple Seems To Be Tracking iPhone 11 When Location Services Disabled, Report Finds
Apple talks a very, very big privacy game, but a report has found the latest generation of iPhones may not give users as much control over their privacy as Apple would like them to believe.