600,000 GPS trackers left exposed online with a default password of ‘123456’ https://www.zdnet.com/article/600000-gps-trackers-left-exposed-online-with-a-default-password-of-123456/
Feds ordered Google location dragnet to solve Wisconsin bank robbery https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/28/20836855/reverse-location-search-warrant-dragnet-bank-robbery-fbi
Experian just invested in a location data company, which is a little creepy https://www.fastcompany.com/90395905/experian-just-invested-in-a-location-data-company
THERE’S A SPY IN YOUR MERCEDES Mercedes spies on drivers by secretly installing tracking devices in cars and passing information to bailiffs https://www.thesun.co.uk/motors/9756250/mercedes-spies-drivers-tracking-devices/
Instagram ad partner secretly sucked up and tracked millions of users’ locations and stories https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/07/instagram-ad-partner-secretly-sucked-up-and-tracked-millions-of-users-locations-and-stories/
New York City bill could make selling phone location data illegal https://www.engadget.com/2019/07/23/new-york-city-bill-ban-selling-location-data/
China’s government has given location-tracking watches to 17,000 children https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613978/china-gps-beidou-gives-location-tracking-watches-to-17-000-children-privacy/
EFF Sues AT&T, Data Aggregators For Giving Bounty Hunters and Other Third Parties Access to Customers’ Real-Time Locations https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-sues-att-data-aggregators-giving-bounty-hunters-and-other-third-parties-access
License Plate Readers Are Creeping Into Neighborhoods Across the Country https://slate.com/technology/2019/07/automatic-license-plate-readers-hoa-police-openalpr.html
Superhuman is Spying on You https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2019/06/superhuman-is-spying-on-you
Ajit Pai Is Still Withholding Facts About Location-Data Abuse From His Own Commissioners https://gizmodo.com/ajit-pai-is-still-withholding-details-of-fccs-location-1835664306
He Won a Landmark Case for Privacy Rights. He’s Going to Prison Anyway. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/13/opinion/timothy-carpenter-prison-privacy.html
The Saudi government is hunting down women who flee the country by tracking the IMEI number on their cellphones https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-imei-track-runaways-2019-5
Company Advertised American, Canadian, Indian Phone Location Data for Sale https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/597kk5/phone-location-data-america-canada-india-philippines
If Regulators Won’t Stop The Sale of Cell Phone Users’ Location Data, Consumers Must https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/05/if-regulators-wont-stop-sale-cell-phone-users-location-data-consumers-must
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