Apple’s decision to be much more proactive in alerting users to background location tracking in iOS 13 has resulted in a 68% drop in the location data collected by apps. The issue has also seen ...

Dallas was working on cars at a Honda dealership rocking a MyTouch 4G when Artem and the gang started Android Police. It was this very website that got him into Android in the first place — he'd sneak ...

Last year, Android 10 let users limit an application’s location access to only when it’s actively in use. Android 11 later this year builds on that with one-time access, as well as a new Google Play ...

A working paper in which a modular Bayesian framework is proposed to estimate the geographic location of mobile devices from mobile phone network data. Mobile phone network data are potentially ...

Facebook will no longer be able to give you a heads-up about friends near you or impending weather changes, because after May 31 its mobile apps won’t be able to check your location in the background.

Google is making a big push to revamp privacy with Android 11, and it seems that as a part of that effort, it’s locking down location access within Android apps. In a post on the Android Developer’s ...

Google's upcoming efforts to improve mobile privacy will extend beyond the upgrades in Android 11. Starting August 3rd, the company will require approval for background location requests in all Play ...