Your smartphone could be broadcasting your location without you knowing it. Find out how this happens and how to keep your ...

Your Android phone keyboard may be tracking your inputs - how to check (and 2 ways to stop it) ...

A new ruling rules that geofence warrants are Fourth Amendment searches, but it stops short of banning police access to revealing location histories ...

A 6-3 ruling over Google Location History raises the stakes for companies that collect, store, or profit from data about ...

A new Supreme Court ruling will require police to have probable cause before using sweeping geofence warrants that rely on ...

Google has developed a smartphone-based system that estimates heart rate and resting heart rate using only the phone’s front-facing camera and on-device AI. The technology reportedly delivers wearable ...

The Fourth Amendment protects a user’s “location history,” the Supreme Court ruled Monday. The same logic already applied to ...

The Supreme Court has held that constitutional privacy protections extend to cellphone location information, ruling in the ...

The majority found that a request by police for Google to turn over a suspect’s location history constituted a 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.

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

Law enforcement officials frequently draw virtual fences around areas of interest and require Google to identify every ...