For years, location permissions have been a bit of a mess on Android. You open an app, it asks for your location, and you’re suddenly making a decision: While using the app? Always? Precise?

Find Hub's website now lets you locate tags and headphones from any laptop browser, with a cleaner design and handy new device controls thrown in for good measure.

Some photo editors will let you edit and remove locations: Google Photos doesn't, for example, but Apple Photos does. Head to ...

Following the announcement at the start of this month, Real-time Location Sharing in Google Messages for Android is more widely rolling out. Once available, you’ll notice that the ‘plus’ menu in ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is buying location data for investigations. FBI Director Kash Patel's admission came during this week's Senate Intelligence Committee on worldwide threats. It's the ...

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 ...

Airlines used to control baggage tracking. Now passengers do. SITA is wiring that shift directly into the industry’s recovery system. Airlines are getting a new tool to track lost luggage: Google’s ...

If there weren’t enough reasons to be concerned about the U.S. government’s recent actions, here’s another: According to a report by 404 Media, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has been purchasing ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

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 ...

In brief: Recent security incidents have proven that internet-connected cars can be tracked and even hijacked by hacking their advanced infotainment systems, wireless keys, and the cloud servers of ...

Google API keys for services like Maps embedded in accessible client-side code could be used to authenticate to the Gemini AI assistant and access private data. Researchers found nearly 3,000 such ...