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Life360 has been marketed as a great way for parents to track their children’s movements using their cellphones. However, Life360 is selling data on kids’ and families’ whereabouts to approximately a dozen data brokers.

Life360, the family safety app in the process of acquiring Tile, is selling raw location data from its 33 million users, The Markup reported Monday.

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The feds are buying access to private data collection companies as a way to gather information on people without a warrant.

As companies and governments increasingly hoover up our personal data, a common refrain is that nothing can go wrong because the data...

We've noted a few times how the TikTok ban is largely performative, xenophobic nonsense that operates in a bizarre, facts-optional...

>> question about commercial data and use in doj investigations. in 2018, supreme court issued carpenter versus -- cell phone data and show location of device over seven-day period. this data is widely available for many use persons through data brokers and other technology companies. to your knowledge, any agencies purchase data or components purchase data or contract for services that provide device location data, is this data used in investigations or prosecutions? >> i dont believe we purcha...

Both the Google Maps website and app have a "Current Location" button that lets you find exactly where you are.

Recent scandals involving companies like Securus and LocationSmart made it clear that cellular carriers are collecting and selling an...