Your Location Data Is Being Sold – Often Without Your Knowledge

As location-aware advertising goes mainstream – like that Jack in the Box ad that appears whenever you get near one, in whichever app you have open at the time—and as popular apps harvest your lucrative location data, the potential for Read More …

DoD Studying Implications of Wearable Devices Giving Too Much Info

Defense Department officials are studying security issues raised by physical conditioning trackers that also can be used to track service members’ whereabouts, a Pentagon spokesman told reporters today. The concern comes from a “heat map” posted by Strava — the Read More …