Google has agreed to a $391.5 million settlement with 40 states in connection with an investigation into how the company tracked users' locations, state attorneys general announced Monday, calling it ...

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is changing its Maps tool so that the company no longer has access to users' individual location histories, cutting off its ability to respond to law enforcement warrants that ...

Google announced big changes to its most legally fraught set of user settings: your location data. Google’s misleading Location History descriptions in Google Maps have earned it several lawsuits in ...

Google Maps, who are you? I'm incredibly surprised to see Google come up with privacy features I'd expect from a competitive navigation app. Not the search giant that makes billions of dollars each ...

Google is making some big changes to Maps that will affect anyone who uses the app to plan trips, get directions, and access previous destinations. In a recent help page update, the company revealed ...

Google is rolling out significant changes to its Maps Timeline feature, which tracks your location history. As part of this update, you will soon receive notifications that your Timeline data will be ...

Google has agreed to pay nearly $392 million in a settlement with 40 states over allegations that the company tracked people through their devices after location tracking had been turned off, a ...

It’s no secret anymore. Nearly everything you do online is tracked or recorded and used to learn more about you. Many of your data points ends up on creepy people search sites. You’ll be shocked to ...

Oregon's Attorney General has announced the most significant consumer privacy settlement in US history over location tracking practices, due to Google's prior practices. The US Department of Justice ...

Android 14 introduced a “Data sharing updates for location” dashboard. Users were warned today that Google Messages is sharing location data with third parties, but this is not the case. Users noticed ...

Google is making a big change to how it stores Location History data on Android and iOS. Instead of that data being stored in the cloud, Google will be locally saving Location History to your device ...

Google geofence searches are helping police identify suspects in all kinds of cases, despite concerns about whether or not they're constitutional. (Photo Illustration by Omar Marques/SOPA Images/SOPA ...