The electronic logging device mandate’s many impacts inside the trucking business and culture, and with respect to broader highway safety, are no stranger to the pages of Overdrive, “litigated” as it ...

You understand that your phone knows where you’re located. This is how GPS works, how Find My Friends sees your location, and why you get local ads on Facebook and Google. Like other data on your ...

Our phones know where we are and they know where we have been—the problem is they have a nasty habit of sharing that information with others. And the latest location tracking nightmare to hit phone ...

Yesterday, tech giant Google agreed to an almost $400 million payout to 40 states over user tracking violations. Google's settlement comes due to charges that it misinformed users to think turning off ...

It seems like just about every mobile app you install these days requests access to your location data. Most seem to have some valid use for that information, and sharing location information makes ...

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Jeff Chiu / AP Google has agreed to pay nearly $392 million in a settlement with 40 states over allegations that the company tracked people through their devices after location tracking had been ...