N-gated Hacker NewsOct 5
🚨 Breaking: Sharing your location is dangerous! 😱 In 2025, people are fleeing the digital public square like it's a burning building, only to cozy up in group chats that apparently "rule the world." 🌍 Welcome to the apocalypse, where social location sharing is the real villain! 🙄
https://joinreboot.org/p/lighthouses-in-the-sky #locationprivacy #digitalapocalypse #groupchats #socialmedia #safetyconcerns #HackerNews #ngated
"Lighthouses in the Sky"

The strange, dangerous intimacy of social location sharing

Reboot
HackerNoonSep 18
In August 2022, the FTC started to act against the location data companies on our list, suing data broker Kochava for selling location data https://hackernoon.com/the-supreme-court-abortion-ruling-impacted-the-location-data-industry-heres-how #locationprivacy
The Supreme Court Abortion Ruling Impacted the Location Data Industry: Here's How | HackerNoon

In August 2022, the FTC started to act against the location data companies on our list, suing data broker Kochava for selling location data

BiyteLümJul 20, 2025

📸 Think your photos don’t reveal much? Think again.

If you’ve enabled geotagging on your phone, each pic may store GPS data (EXIF metadata) — pinpointing where it was taken.

✅ Disable camera location access (iOS/Android)
✅ Strip metadata before sharing
📍 Some platforms remove this info, but don’t rely on it.

#PrivacyTip #PhotoMetadata #LocationPrivacy

Brian Greenberg May 18, 2025

📍 What if your app could use your location — without ever knowing where you are?

That’s what a team of researchers in Europe is working on: a privacy-preserving location sharing system that uses cover traffic to mask your real coordinates.

How it works:
🧠 Your device generates plausible decoy locations
📡 These are transmitted alongside your true location
🛡️ Even your service provider can’t tell which one is real
🚗 Designed for use in navigation and safety systems, like car apps or emergency alerts

Still in the research phase — but if this proves scalable, it could shift the privacy paradigm away from “trust us” to “can’t see it.”

#PrivacyTech #CyberSecurity #LocationPrivacy #Innovation #Infosec
https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/17/privacy_preserving_location_sharing/

Boffins devise technique that lets users prove location without giving it away

: ZKLP system allows apps to confirm user presence in a region without exposing exactly where

The Register
N-gated Hacker NewsMay 10, 2025
🚨🤦‍♂️ Breaking news: Uber's driver app somehow defies the laws of permissions and accesses location in the background. Meanwhile, Apple Developer Forums are a maze with more dead ends than a Scooby-Doo episode. 🕵️‍♀️🔍
https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/783227 #UberDriverApp #LocationPrivacy #AppleDeveloperForums #TechNews #ScoobyDoo #HackerNews #ngated
I noticed that the Uber Driver app… | Apple Developer Forums

Sam BentMar 31, 2025
Disable location access for apps that don’t need it.
Apps often track your movements for data monetization.
#LocationPrivacy #MobileSecurity #DataAbuse
ctrg195Mar 2, 2025

draft - Tesla please give us an option to disable location tracking for 1 to 12 hours

when I goto my car, sometimes I want that as private time - to not be tracked by parents. I can understand having it on by default. but if we could get an option for an incognito mode or some shit like that, that would be much more appreciated. sometimes as human beings, we deserve the ability to go off the radar for a few hours. Tesla itself can still track, that's fine, but at least make it so the app doesn't show our location to other family members for a bit.

#tesla #privacy #locationprivacy #invasionofprivacy #dating #incognito #freedom #teslamodely #cybertruck #model3 #teslalocationtracking

Show threadElectronic Frontier FoundationMay 1, 2024

Stalking your ex using phone location services isn’t cool. Neither is the way that governments and companies use your phone's data to determine where you've been. Learn more about protecting your privacy, and how EFF helps:
* https://www.eff.org/issues/location-privacy
* https://ssd.eff.org/module/mobile-phones-location-tracking

#TaylorSwift #blackdog #locationprivacy #dataprivacy #digitalrights

Locational Privacy

Modern communications mean most individuals today walk around with a beacon that transmits their location. Mobile phones register to a nearby tower as the owner moves through space and the phone company can collect that data in real time or retrospectively to physically place the phone with varying degrees of accuracy. Companies can also determine the owner of every handset within range of a particular tower. GPS enabled phones enable far more precise location placement. Many cars now have GPS devices installed some of which transmit the vehicle’s location to a centralized service. As the devices get cheaper and smaller law enforcement agencies can more easily attach GPS trackers to cars and individuals enabling precise round-the-clock surveillance without ever leaving the precinct. Location-based services including maps of nearby restaurants friend finders and other social networks collect location data as part of providing the service or for contextual advertising. EFF is fighting to protect the privacy and prevent the misuse of this data that users of phones GPS transmitters and location-based services leak to providers and to the government. In our cell tracking and GPS tracking cases we advocate that the law protect this information by requiring police to get a search warrant before obtaining this sensitive data. We also work to ensure that location based service providers don’t abuse the information they collect on their customers or hand it off to other companies or the police without consent or probable cause.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Anita Graser 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪Apr 6, 2024

Experimenting with integrating #scikitmobility #privacy checks into #Trajectools 👩‍💻

Curious? Check out the dev version in:
https://github.com/movingpandas/qgis-processing-trajectory/tree/privacy

#MovingPandas #MovementDataAnalytics #LocationPrivacy #MobilityDataScience

GitHub - movingpandas/qgis-processing-trajectory at privacy

Trajectory tools for the QGIS Processing toolbox. Contribute to movingpandas/qgis-processing-trajectory development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
Ryan Boswell 🏳️‍🌈Nov 4, 2023

There needs to be a “not this time, but ask again” option for #LocationServices in iOS.

Relatively few apps get “allow when using the app”, and plenty of them I want to allow occasional one-time usage, but not every time they ask for it. But right now if I decline access, iOS treats that as a permanent ban and I have to go into settings to put it back to “ask next time”.

The full ban option has to remain, there are infinitely more use casss for that. But it’d be nice for something in the middle too.

#Privacy #LocationPrivacy