Of all of the recent technological developments that have expanded the surveillance capabilities of law enforcement agencies at the expense of individual privacy, perhaps the most powerful is cell ...

ICE has purchased “cell site simulators,” which can be used to spy on nearby phones and track their locations.

A Milwaukee PD "critical response vehicle", or surveillance van. (Photo by Isiah Holmes/Wisconsin Examiner) A Milwaukee PD "critical response vehicle", or surveillance van. (Photo by Isiah ...

Earlier this year ICE ordered new vehicles equipped with smartphone-tracking hardware. Cell-tower simulating “Stingray” devices gather records on phones in their vicinity. Luckily, Android 16 includes ...

Authorities around the world can use your cell phone to track your location and potentially access other sensitive private information about you. One possible protection from this data collection is a ...

The U.S. National Security Agency collects five billion records every day tracking cell phone movements around the world, according to documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. In ...

Capitalizing on all the information we put into our cell phones, Verizon Wireless is selling all our app usage and location information to marketers, reports CNET's Declan McCullagh. Part of what it ...

What just happened? A pivotal legal decision has emerged from Nevada, where a federal judge has questioned the constitutionality of a controversial investigative tool known as a "tower dump." This law ...

CPS may invest $60M in tech tracking after losing devices; studies show cell phone bans in schools can improve test scores ...