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FTC committed to enforcing law against illegal use, sharing of sensitive data
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Tim Hortons app violated laws in collection of ‘vast amounts’ of location data
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Public health agency tracked Canadians' movements via phone data during pandemic
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Data broker is selling location data of people who visit abortion clinics
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CDC tracked millions of phones to see if Americans followed lockdown orders
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Canada's public health agency admits it tracked mobile devices during lockdown
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Tile buyer Life360 reportedly sells precise user location data to nearly anyone
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The FBI's internal guide for getting data from AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon
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Employee refuses to download app that monitors location, says it got her fired
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School custodian refuses to download app that monitors location, got her fired
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Military Unit Conducting Drone Strikes Bought Location Data from Ordinary Apps
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Oops: Google admits failing to wipe all Android apps with location-tracking X-Mo
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Investigation Xoth: Smartphone location tracking
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Most Americans Object to Government Tracking Their Activities Through Cellphones
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Michigan college is tracking its students with a flawed app
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Clear Channel’s billboards will start tracking consumers in Europe
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Carrier sales of phone-location data is illegal, FCC plans punishment
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AT&T to Face EFF Class Action for Selling Customers’ Location to Bounty Hunters
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Refunds for 300M phone users sought in lawsuits over location-data sales
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U.S. Telcos Sold Highly Sensitive Customer GPS Data Typically Used for 911 Calls
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AT&T says it’ll stop selling location data amid calls for federal investigation
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Despite promises, cell carriers are still selling your real-time location data
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Mobile customer location data is ending up in the hands of bounty hunters
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Google Demanded T-Mobile, Sprint Not Sell Google Fi Customers' Location Data
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DoD: Turn Off Your Fitbit, Garmin, Apple Watch GPS
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Lawyers Send Mobile Ads To Phones In ER Waiting Rooms
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LocationSmart Leaked Location Data for All Major U.S. Carriers in Real Time
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US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data
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US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data
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The $24B Data Business That Telcos Don't Want to Talk About
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Unique in the Crowd: The privacy bounds of human mobility
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Vice.com Reveals John McAfee's Location In iPhone Metadata
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OnStar Begins Spying On Customers’ GPS Location For Profit
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What Location Tracking Looks Like
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Sprint fed customer GPS data to police over 8 million times
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FTC bans X-Mode from selling phone location data, and orders firm to delete data
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FCC fines big three carriers $196M for selling users' real-time location data
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