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I disabled Google Play Services location tracking, and yes, apps still work fine

Turns out the easy switch doesn't exist. The real one just costs you a sharp photo location.

The Supreme Court just ruled that police need a warrant to use phone location data

Geofence warrants work differently from traditional investigations. Instead of starting with a suspect, police define a ...
Scientific American

The Supreme Court just limited police access to your phone’s location trail

A new ruling rules that geofence warrants are Fourth Amendment searches, but it stops short of banning police access to revealing location histories ...
The New York Times

Stop Location-Tracking Your Friends and Lovers

See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de búsqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google It’s rare that a ...
9to5google

Google Phone app rolling out Android fake call detection that uses RCS

Phone by Google wants to combat the “growing threat of impersonation scams” and protect Android users against “sophisticated, AI-powered deepfake attacks” with fake call detection. June Android Drop: ...
Business Insider

The same location data that helps apps and advertisers track everyday phone users could be putting US troops at risk

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. US troops could be at risk of being targeted by enemies using commercial location data from their ...
Yahoo

The same location data that helps apps and advertisers track everyday phone users could be putting US troops at risk

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Adversaries may be tracking US military personnel using their location data on their cellphones. New reporting highlights the ...
PC World

Google quietly cuts free storage to 5GB without a phone number

PCWorld reports that Google quietly reduced free storage from 15GB to 5GB for new accounts created without phone number verification. This policy change affects Gmail, Drive, and Photos storage for ...
9to5google

Google accounts no longer get 15GB of free storage, only 5GB until you link a phone number

Google has made a notable change to its account storage policy, limiting the usual 15GB of free storage only to accounts that are verified with a phone number. For years now, signing up for a Google ...
Fast Company

3 reasons to use Google Fi cell service (and 2 reasons not to)

Google Fi has been around for north of a decade now and it still feels like the weird, smart kid in the back of the wireless-carrier room. It’s not quite a major carrier, but it’s much more than just ...
Reuters

UK regulator closes loophole that allowed rogue companies to track phone users' location

April 23 (Reuters) - British authorities say they have closed a loophole that could allow rogue actors to secretly track mobile phone users through ‌the international telecommunications system. In a ...
TechCrunch

Surveillance vendors caught abusing access to telcos to track people’s phone locations, researchers say

Security researchers have uncovered two separate spying campaigns that are abusing well-known weaknesses in the global telecoms infrastructure to track people’s locations. The researchers say these ...