Websites employ web tracking for collecting relevant information about their visitors to serve them personalized content. A subset of web tracking, which is widely used in location tracking these days ...

NordVPN just launched My Location, a free tool that shows both your physical and IP-based virtual location, helping you ...

Facebook wants to know “What’s on your mind?” Twitter asks “What’s happening?” But that’s getting old already. The burning question for the next wave of social networking is “Where are you?”–and ...

Now, more American adults use mobile devices than traditional computers when searching for local products and services. Geolocation is a marketing method that seeks to use mobile technology to push ...

One of the pieces of functionality commonly discussed when distinguishing HTML5 from previous versions of HTML is the standardization of geolocation via the Geolocation API. Although some browsers ...

The Federal Trade Commission has sued data broker Kochava for buying and selling massive troves of geolocation information that it says can be used to target individuals, exposing them to “stalking, ...

For the past two decades, location data has helped fuel the digital economy. It’s the little helper that guided us to the nearest coffee shop, summoned a ride to our doorstep, let us check in at a ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday announced it has filed a lawsuit against data broker Kochava Inc. for selling geolocation data from “hundreds of millions of mobile devices,” it says, ...