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Here's how GPS tracking device can help in daily life routine

If you already own a GPS device, you will put it to best use post you go through the top 10 uses listed.

23 Sept 2017 5:28 AM

Google and Facebook may face higher tax bills in Europe as the EU rushed to change rules so that more of Silicon Valleys mega profits fall into public coffers. (photo: AFP)

Google to help track exact location of 911 callers in the future

The company has been carrying out tests by gathering 911 calls and callers' location over a period of two months.

20 Feb 2018 2:12 PM

The new Apple iPhone 11 Pro is available in a beautiful Midnight Green colour.

Apple fixes location tracking bug in iPhone 11 chip

It was discovered that the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro were tracking location data even when the services were turned...

20 Jan 2020 3:01 AM

A picture shows a surveillance camera in an underground passage in Moscow on January 27, 2020. - A vast and contentious network of facial-recognition cameras keeping watch over Moscow is now playing a key role in slowing the rapid spread of coronavirus in Russia. (Photo | AFP)

Privacy could become the next victim of the coronavirus as governments...

Authoritarian regimes such as China use COVID-19 as a pretext to suppress independent speech and restrict fundamental...

29 March 2020 6:42 AM

Did you know Google is tracking your location even if you opted not to share it? Lawsuit says so

Did you know Google is tracking your location even if you opted not to...

The state of Arizona is taking Google to court after an investigation found it's impossible to stop Google from tracking...

28 May 2020 12:22 PM

Associated Press reporter Zen Soo eats her lunch at the dining table at home while serving a two-week home quarantine in Hong Kong, April 17, 2020. Hong Kong issued quarantine wristbands to monitor returning residents of the city while they serve their mandatory 14-day quarantine, in a bid to curb local transmissions of COVID-19 during the pandemic. (Photo | AP)

On quarantine, wearing a government-mandated location tracker, how...

An Associated Press reporter in Hong Kong describes her experience.

20 May 2020 3:07 PM

People wear face masks as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus as they use a phone app to scan a code required to prove their health and travel status before being allowed to enter a shopping mall in Beijing on May 2, 2020, the second day of a five-day national holiday. The debate on privacy protection while using such apps is especially urgent in Europe, where academics and civil liberties activists are pushing for solutions that protect personal data. Eastern nations are less likely to adhere to privacy protection norms followed in the West. (Photo | AFP)

Location tracking not allowed on apps using Google, Apple APIs but...

Aarogya Setu, which runs on its own Application Program Interface or API, is not bound by international privacy...

5 May 2020 3:02 PM

The app was suspended ahead of an Amnesty International report analyzing contact tracing apps from Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, which found that the Norwegian app was one of the most alarming for privacy because of its live or near-live tracking of users locations. The rights group said it shared its findings with authorities earlier this month and urged them to change course.

Privacy violation not justified anymore as case count drops, Norways...

Norway currently has between 50 and 100 confirmed cases of COVID-19.

15 Jun 2020 4:27 PM

The release of internal emails, where Google engineers say the location tracking of users who disabled the feature was misleading, is embarrassing for a company that tries to build trust with billions of users of free services such as maps and online search, which in turn provide the personal information Google can use to target ads. Those ads generated more than $130 billion in revenue last year alone. (Photo | AFP)

'Location off should mean location off', Google engineers said after...

After the AP article two years ago, Google made changes to its privacy settings to make it easier for users to conceal...

27 Aug 2020 8:49 AM

Googles Phone app will start blocking out unwanted calls on its own.

Google's location tracking bothering you? Here's how you can turn it...

The location tracking feature is crucial to a lot of apps such as cab-hailing apps, food ordering, maps, and so on.

15 Aug 2018 2:32 AM

At Google, inclusion and diversity are of paramount importance.

Google tracks your movements, like it or not: Report

Google wants to know where you go so badly that it records your movements even when you explicitly tell it not to.

13 Aug 2018 3:17 PM

Google has not changed its location-tracking practice. (Photo: AP)

Google clarifies location-tracking policy on its website

The change came three days after it was revealed that Google apps store user location even if users have turned off...

18 Aug 2018 5:39 AM