Law enforcement officials frequently draw virtual fences around areas of interest and require Google to identify every cellphone in the area using cell location history. Dubbed a “geofence search,” ...

The case involved “geofence” searches, which allow law enforcement to find suspects and witnesses by sweeping up location data from cellphones near crime scenes. By Ann E. Marimow and Adam Liptak ...

The Supreme Court on Monday said that police must generally obtain a warrant to gather detailed location data tracked by smartphones, in a case that brings into sharper relief the Constitution’s ...

Spokane, WASH. -- Avista confirmed today that the 'large load customer' it entered into an agreement with that would consume as much electricity as half the utility's service area in Eastern ...

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U.S. Central Command said it had “received multiple threat reports concerning adversary exploitation of commercial location data." (DOD) U.S. forces deployed to war zones have been targeted using ...

U.S. service members deployed overseas have been targeted or surveilled using commercially available location data, federal lawmakers said in a Thursday letter to the Pentagon demanding stronger ...

The FTC has reached a proposed settlement with data broker Kochava and its subsidiary, Collective Data Solutions, that would bar them from selling sensitive location data without consumers’ explicit ...

Geofence searches allow law enforcement to find suspects and witnesses by sweeping up location data from cellphone users near crime scenes. By Ann E. Marimow Reporting from Washington When the Call ...

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Three years after saying it had stopped buying location data of Americans without a warrant, the FBI acknowledged it has restarted the purchases. During questioning at a Senate Select Committee on ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. During a Senate hearing, FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed that his agency has bought information that could be used to track individuals' ...