eWeek

Meta AI Wants to Be Your Personal Shopper

Meta is rolling out a dedicated shopping research mode inside its Meta AI web chatbot for a slice of US desktop users. Search ...
Android Authority

Android 16 QPR3 finally lets you see exactly which app is tracking your location

Android 16 QPR3 Beta 1 brings back the expandable location indicator, a feature Google previously tested in Android 13 but never released. Tapping the new blue status bar icon opens a privacy dialog ...
The New York Times

Iran Turns to Digital Surveillance Tools to Track Down Protesters

As Iranian authorities restore some online services after crushing antigovernment demonstrations, they are using a technological dragnet to target attendees of the protests. By Adam Satariano Paul ...
Bleeping Computer

New Apple privacy feature limits location tracking on iPhones, iPads

Apple is introducing a new privacy feature that lets users limit the precision of location data shared with cellular networks on some iPhone and iPad models. The "Limit Precise Location" setting will ...
Fast Company

TikTok is tracking you now. Here’s how to protect yourself

But there’s some bad news, too. Successive U.S. administrations—both Biden’s and Trump’s—argued that TikTok posed a national security threat to America and its citizens, partly because of the data the ...
Digital Trends

A new setting in iOS 26.3 will make it harder for carriers to track your exact location

Apple plans to release a new privacy feature with iOS 26.3 that will allow iPhone and iPad users to hide their precise location from network carriers. Spotted in the latest iOS 26.3 beta build, the ...
MacRumors

iOS 26.3 Adds Privacy Setting to Limit Carrier Location Tracking

With iOS 26.3, Apple is adding a new "limit precise location" setting that reduces the location data available to mobile networks to increase user privacy. Mobile networks determine location based on ...
TechSpot

TikTok quietly expands location tracking and ad targeting for US users

What just happened? TikTok has introduced an extensive update to its terms of service and privacy policy for American users, significantly broadening the app's ...
Hosted on MSN

Moment track athlete's phone swiped whilst filming a TikTok

A phone snatcher picked the wrong target after stealing a phone from a track athlete while she was filming a TikTok in London. Elizabeth Lopez Aguilar, 24, was filming a video in front of the London ...
TwinCities.com

Supreme Court will decide on use of warrants that collect the location history of cellphone users

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide the constitutionality of broad search warrants that collect the location history of cellphone users to find people near crime scenes. The ...
The New York Times

Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Warrants for Phone Location Data

The case involves a challenge to so-called geofence warrants, which permit law enforcement officials to sweep up location data of people near crime scenes. By Abbie VanSickle Reporting from Washington ...