The social media platform changed its privacy policy last month, inviting users to allow it to track their specific location.

Facebook wants to know “What’s on your mind?” Twitter asks “What’s happening?” But that’s getting old already. The burning question for the next wave of social networking is “Where are you?”–and ...

Your exact location is a tidbit of information that can infringe on your privacy. Knowing your location all the time can help someone map your life. Were you at the pool hall during working hours? Did ...

Businesses know where you are, what you need, and how to serve you before you even ask. Geolocation technology has completely changed everything—from shopping and entertainment to banking and security ...

No audio available for this content. The surveyor has been known throughout history for many things: part expert measurer, part historian, part lawyer and part geographer. These attributes have led ...

Geolocation data—information on the movement of individuals or commodities sourced from mobile devices and transponders on shipping vessels—has emerged as a valuable dataset in investment firms’ ...

Websites employ web tracking for collecting relevant information about their visitors to serve them personalized content. A subset of web tracking, which is widely used in location tracking these days ...