Los Angeles settles Weather Channel lawsuit, lets it keep selling location data to advertisers https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/19/21376217/los-angeles-the-weather-channel-app-lawsuit-settlement-location-data-selling
Secret Service Bought Phone Location Data from Apps, Contract Confirms https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgxk3g/secret-service-phone-location-data-babel-street
Chicago to use social media to track tourists violating quarantine; city dismisses comparison to ‘Big Brother’ https://www.foxnews.com/travel/chicago-social-media-monitor-travel-order-violators
Beware of find-my-phone, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth, NSA tells mobile users https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/08/beware-of-find-my-phone-wi-fi-and-bluetooth-nsa-tells-mobile-users/
How the NSA Says You Can Limit Location Data Exposure https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7gxv3/nsa-location-data-privacy
Trinity study slams ‘troubling’ Google privacy on tracker app https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/trinity-study-slams-troubling-google-privacy-on-tracker-app-39393459.html
Google Promises Privacy With Virus App but Can Still Collect Location Data https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/20/technology/google-covid-tracker-app.html
This company sells phone location data to the FBI – see what’s tracking you https://www.komando.com/news/company-sells-phone-location-data-to-fbi/743557/
Almost 17,000 Protesters Had No Idea A Tech Company Was Tracing Their Location https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/protests-tech-company-spying
FBI Expands Ability to Collect Cellphone Location Data, Monitor Social Media, Recent Contracts Show https://theintercept.com/2020/06/24/fbi-surveillance-social-media-cellphone-dataminr-venntel/
IRS Used Cellphone Location Data to Try to Find Suspects https://www.wsj.com/articles/irs-used-cellphone-location-data-to-try-to-find-suspects-11592587815
Political groups use “deeply spooky” protester location data, report finds https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/political-groups-use-deeply-spooky-protester-location-data-report-finds/
Double-double tracking: How Tim Hortons knows where you sleep, work and vacation https://business.financialpost.com/technology/tim-hortons-app-tracking-customers-intimate-data
Geofence warrants: How police can use protesters’ phones against them https://www.cnet.com/news/geofence-warrants-how-police-can-use-protesters-phones-against-them/
Google Tracks You Even If Location History’s Off. Here’s How to Stop It https://www.wired.com/story/google-location-tracking-turn-off/