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Tracking Whereabouts with Google Maps
Many applications like Foursquare or Gowalla allow users to track their footsteps online and with friends and now if that’s up your alley, Google may have a new experimental feature for you. This new...
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FTC Proposes “Do Not Track” Tool
It wasn’t long ago that telemarketers could unscrupulously bombard you with calls to buy this, that or the other thing. It became quite annoying, so much so, that if you recall, the FTC (Federal Trade...
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Gates Says Handsets Could Improve World Health
In a keynote address at the mHealth Summit, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates proposed a solution to a problem that has been facing health administrators for as long as anyone can remember. Registering...
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Mandatory GPS Tracking: Extreme or Expected?
Should your employer be able to keep digital tabs on you? Yesterday I had lunch with my brother. As soon as we sat down to eat he handed me a brand-new BlackBerry Bold he received from his employer a...
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iPhones and 3G iPads Track Your Location: Who Cares?
This morning a story hit the web indicating that iPhones and 3G iPads regularly record the location of your device in a hidden file. Locations and the time stamps for when you’re at those locations...
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untrackerd Jailbreak App Ends iOS Device Tracking
When it came out this week that 3G-supporting iOS devices store location data within hidden local files, it incited a public sentiment of outrage. For some, like Senator Al Franken (D-MN), this...
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Apple & Google Location Tracking: A Breakdown of the Geolocation Crisis
With mounting concerns regarding the privacy of mobile data, two researchers from the United Kingdom stumbled upon a potentially-scary cache of coordinates in the backup archives of their iOS devices...
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Apple Issues a Statement on Location Data
Last week news broke that Apple’s iPhones and 3G iPads were keeping track of users locations, time stamping their travels and keeping all that info stored on the device, backed up in iTunes. The...
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What Privacy? Google Tracked iPhone Web Browsing Habits
Google and a number of other mobile advertising firms have been secretly tracking the web surfing habits of iPhone users, The Wall Street Journal reported late Thursday. Stanford researcher Jonathan...
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Hi-Tech Parenting: The DIY Kid-Tracking Surveillance Copter
Parents can be unnerved by the thought of sending their children off to school by themselves. In the past, that usually meant walking the child or following close behind, diving behind bushes to avoid...
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North Las Vegas Man Becomes Target For Lost Cell Phone Seekers
Losing a mobile phone is genuinely upsetting. But Wayne Dobson, 59, isn’t too empathetic about the plight — especially not after he has found people wandering in his yard, shining a flashlight into...
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Never Lose Your Keys (or Cat) Again: StickNFind Bluetooth Tracker Ships Next...
I just love this little guy. The StickNFind is a cute quarter-shaped, bluetooth-equipped disc that attaches to just about anything, so you can track it on your iPhone or Android device. Now that’s...
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Apple Refutes iOS Tracking Claims From Chinese Media
Apple has refuted claims that the iPhone is a national security threat by publishing a new page that explains how the Cupertino company addresses “Your Location Privacy” in iOS. It comes days after...
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Verizon Begins Shipping iPhone 6 & iPhone 6 Plus Pre-Orders
Verizon has this weekend begun shipping the first iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus pre-orders ahead of their launch on Friday, September 19. Customers are being given their tracking numbers and they can...
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Study finds smartphones are just as accurate as wearables for fitness tracking
If you have a modern smartphone, you may not need a dedicated wearable for fitness tracking. A new study has found that mobile apps can be just as accurate as smartbands when it comes to tracking...
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Apple Watch was supposed to have more health and fitness features
Apple wanted its first Watch to do even more for health and fitness tracking, but many of the features it originally wanted to integrate had to be cut, a new report claims. The Cupertino company was...
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