For the first time, geolocation—the identification of the location of an individual or an object using technology—will see its day in court. The named plaintiff representing the class, Guillermo Mata, ...

On June 28, 2017, the Illinois General Assembly passed a bill limiting the collection and use of geolocation information obtained via smartphones. The bill now heads to Governor Bruce Rauner’s desk ...

New privacy rules always spark a search for workarounds. Virginia’s ban on selling precise geolocation data will be no different.

Reed Abrahamson, D. Reed Freeman, Jr. On Tuesday, June 27, the Illinois legislature passed HB 3449, the “Geolocation Privacy Protection Act.” If signed by ...

(TNS) -- Groundbreaking Illinois legislation meant to protect mobile phone users from having their location information trafficked by companies without their permission is going nowhere, at least for ...

One day after congressional lawmakers grilled the FBI chief and Apple's top lawyer about government's access to encrypted data, another smaller, less spotlighted panel convened on Capitol Hill — to ...

Microsoft has restricted its Wi-Fi-powered geolocation database after a researcher investigating Wi-Fi geolocation and position tracking raised privacy concerns about the information recorded. This ...

U.S. legislators have reintroduced bills that would place curbs on warrantless access by the government to electronically generated geolocation information of Americans, including on the use of ...

GPS privacy law will soon be updated if Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, get their way. The bill, called the Geolocation Privacy and ...

At the W3C Workshop on Privacy for Advanced Web APIs, one of the topics was the Geolocation API Specification. Experts from Google (news, site), Opera Software (news ...