Star Wars: The Old Republic’s latest executive producer’s letter is out, with Keith Kanneg recapping some of what we saw in the first quarter of 2026 and looking ahead. The team is also updating on ...

Nearly 90% of consumers say they prefer personalized ads to non-personalized ones—and location is becoming one of the most powerful personalization signals available. In 2025, advertisers spent at ...

Take a photo on any digital camera or smartphone and it's not just the pixels that are saved. The image also gets a bunch of metadata appended to it, also known as EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format ...

Android 17 features a number of location privacy updates, with the latest introduced in Beta 3 being the “location button.” The new location button provides “simplified access for one time use,” with ...

FBI director revealed agency had resumed buying private information en masse in possible constitutional violation Kash Patel’s disclosure on Wednesday that the FBI has resumed buying location data on ...

The FBI has resumed purchasing reams of Americans’ data and location histories to aid federal investigations, the agency’s director, Kash Patel, testified to lawmakers on Wednesday. This is the first ...

Google Messages now lets you share your location in real time. You can choose how long you want to share where you are. The old location-sharing option was only for a static point. Finding someone in ...

The earliest Jedi came from the Je’daii tradition on Tython—an order focused on balancing light and dark rather than rejecting one side completely. Their world was shaped by catastrophic Force events, ...

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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 groceries, where you go to church and see your doctor, and where ...

Advocates for transparency on social media cheered this weekend when X, the app owned by tech billionaire Elon Musk, rolled out a new feature that disclosed what the company said were the country ...

Online sleuths quickly found that some accounts posting about U.S. politics, including those in support of the MAGA movement, appeared not to be based in the United States. By Yan Zhuang X launched a ...