Posts Tagged ‘geolocation’

FBI admits to buying geolocation data

The last couple of months have been rough on the FBI. The Twitter Files let the genie out of the bottle, and now more serious allegations against the agency just keep piling on. If you think revelations of direct involvement in curtailing free speech on social networks coming out for the whole world to see were […]

How Government Entities Use Geolocation Data To Identify Everyone

July 28, 2020 By MassPrivateI An infographic from the Future of Privacy Forum describes how mobile devices such as smartphones interpret signals from their surroundings – including GPS satellites, cell towers, Wi-Fi networks, and Bluetooth – generate a precise location measurement (latitude and longitude). This measurement is provided by the mobile operating system to mobile […]

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