Google has activated Android Emergency Location Service for the first time in India, starting with Uttar Pradesh. The feature ...

CoMaps is community-driven, open-source, transparent, and the developers aren't concerned with making a profit. The app is fairly new (just hitting Google Play Store and the Apple App Store around ...

Android already warns when your location is being tracked — but not by which apps. That puts the onus on users to play ...

With a revamped privacy indicator appearing as a tappable blue icon in the status bar, you can see exactly which apps are ...

Emilee Rader receives funding from the National Science Foundation. If you use a mobile phone with location services turned on, it is likely that data about where you live and work, where you shop for ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Emilee Rader, University of Wisconsin-Madison (THE CONVERSATION) If you use a mobile ...

As they say, Big Brother is always watching. For this generation, long after the George Orwell novel was written, that phrase can be used to describe Google. We use Google in our daily lives for ...

This tracking is hidden and you cannot switch it off — here's' what you do. Forget cookies — there’s a “pervasive and hidden tracking technique” in Google Chrome on your iPhone or Android phone, and ...

When something goes wrong with your bank account or delivery, your first instinct might be to type the company name into Google and call the first customer service number you see. But that simple ...

Maybe you've already mailed or dropped off your Larimer County ballot for the Nov. 4 election. But you might be wondering how you'll know the ballot made it to its intended location and on time. There ...

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