Internet giant Google has agreed to pay a record $391.5 million to settle with 40 states in the U.S. over charges the company misled users about the collection of personal location data. "Google misled its users into thinking they had turned off location tracking in their account settings, when, in fact, Google continued to collect their location information," Oregon Attorney … [Read more...] about Google to Pay $391 Million Privacy Fine for Secretly Tracking Users’ Location
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New 5G Flaw Exposes Priority Networks to Location Tracking and Other Attacks
New research into 5G architecture has uncovered a security flaw in its network slicing and virtualized network functions that could be exploited to allow data access and denial of service attacks between different network slices on a mobile operator's 5G network. AdaptiveMobile shared its findings with the GSM Association (GSMA) on February 4, 2021, following which the … [Read more...] about New 5G Flaw Exposes Priority Networks to Location Tracking and Other Attacks
Bug in Apple’s Find My Feature Could’ve Exposed Users’ Location Histories
Cybersecurity researchers on Thursday disclosed two distinct design and implementation flaws in Apple's crowdsourced Bluetooth location tracking system that can lead to a location correlation attack and unauthorized access to the location history of the past seven days, thereby by deanonymizing users. The findings are a consequence of an exhaustive review undertaken by the Open … [Read more...] about Bug in Apple’s Find My Feature Could’ve Exposed Users’ Location Histories
Flaws in Over Half a Million GPS Trackers Expose Children Location Data
What if the tech intended to ensure that your kids, senior citizens, and pets are safe even when they're out of sight inadvertently expose them to stalkers?An estimated 600,000 GPS tracking devices for sale on Amazon and other large online merchants for $25–$50 have been found vulnerable to a handful of dangerous vulnerabilities that may have exposed user's real-time locations, … [Read more...] about Flaws in Over Half a Million GPS Trackers Expose Children Location Data
Google Adds New Option to ‘Auto-Delete’ Your Location History and Activity Data
Google is giving you more control over how long you want the tech company to hold on to your location history and web activity data.Google has introduced a new, easier, privacy-focused auto-delete feature for your Google account that will allow you to automatically delete your Location History and Web and App Activity data after a set period of time.Google's Location History … [Read more...] about Google Adds New Option to ‘Auto-Delete’ Your Location History and Activity Data
How To Change the ScreenShot Save File Location in OS X 10.10 Yosemite
By default, anytime you take a screen capture in Mac OS X it will save the screen shot file to the current users desktop. You can adjust where Mac OS X saves a captured screenshot to any other location, here is how to do this. … [Read more...] about How To Change the ScreenShot Save File Location in OS X 10.10 Yosemite
How To Change the ScreenShot Save File Location in OS X 10.9 Mavericks
By default, anytime you take a screen capture in Mac OS X it will save the screen shot file to the current users desktop. You can adjust where Mac OS X saves a captured screenshot to any other location, here is how to do this. we already covered How to create screen shot in OS X and Timed screen shot. … [Read more...] about How To Change the ScreenShot Save File Location in OS X 10.9 Mavericks