VICE NewsJun 14, 2022
US Marshal Charged for Using Cop Phone Location Tool to Track People He Knew https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/k7bqew/us-marshal-securus-phone-location-tracked #Vice #RSS #News #Bot #CellphoneLocationData #SecurusTechnologies #USMarshalsService #locationdata #dataabuse #privacy #securus #CYBER
US Marshal Charged for Using Cop Phone Location Tool to Track People He Knew

Adrian O. Pena allegedly abused the Securus system by simply uploading blank documents and pretending he had authority to track people he had personal relationships with and their spouses.

VICE NewsJun 1, 2022
Canada's Beloved Tim Hortons Spied on Everyone Who Used Its App, Regulator Says https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bvnwqw/tim-horton-collected-location-data-from-app #Vice #RSS #News #Bot #CellphoneLocationData #TimHortonsCoffee #locationdata #worldprivacy #timhortons #worldnews #coffee #Canada #CYBER
Canada's Beloved Tim Hortons Spied on Everyone Who Used Its App, Regulator Says

Tim Hortons, something of a national institution in Canada, gathered mountains of location data from users of its app, in violation of Canadian law.

VICE NewsMay 23, 2022
16 Senators Push FTC: What Are You Doing to Protect Location Data of Women Seeking Abortions? https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjb79x/16-senators-push-ftc-safegraph-location-data-abortion-clincs #Vice #RSS #News #Bot #CellphoneLocationData #PlannedParenthood #AbortionRights #locationdata #roev.wade #senators #privacy #CYBER
16 Senators Push FTC: What Are You Doing to Protect Location Data of Women Seeking Abortions?

The letter comes directly in response to a Motherboard investigation which found a company called SafeGraph selling location data related to Planned Parenthood clinics and other family planning centers.

VICE NewsMay 5, 2022
Location Data Firm Provides Heat Maps of Where Abortion Clinic Visitors Live https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/g5qaq3/location-data-firm-heat-maps-planned-parenthood-abortion-clinics-placer-ai #Vice #RSS #News #Bot #CellphoneLocationData #SURVEILLANCE #locationdata #roev.wade #abortion #privacy
Location Data Firm Provides Heat Maps of Where Abortion Clinic Visitors Live

Placer.ai allowed anyone to freely create an account and start using its visualized data to see where visitors to Planned Parenthood facilities approximately live.

VICE NewsMay 3, 2022
Data Broker Is Selling Location Data of People Who Visit Abortion Clinics https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/m7vzjb/location-data-abortion-clinics-safegraph-planned-parenthood #Vice #RSS #News #Bot #CellphoneLocationData #PlannedParenthood #AbortionRights #SURVEILLANCE #locationdata #roev.wade #abortion #privacy #CYBER
Data Broker Is Selling Location Data of People Who Visit Abortion Clinics

It costs just over $160 to get a week's worth of data on where people who visited Planned Parenthood came from, and where they went afterwards.

VICE NewsMay 3, 2022
CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/m7vymn/cdc-tracked-phones-location-data-curfews #Vice #RSS #News #Bot #CellphoneLocationData #CellphoneLocation #locationdata #privacy #Google #CYBER
CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders

Newly released documents showed the CDC planned to use phone location data to monitor schools and churches, and wanted to use the data for many non-COVID-19 purposes too.