The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has banned the data broker X-Mode Social from sharing or selling users’ sensitive location data, the federal regulator said Tuesday. The first of its kind settlement ...

Precise location data from advertising IDs and mobile apps can be used for surveillance that, according to the FTC, puts millions of Americans at risk. Precise location data from advertising IDs and ...

A hack of location data company Gravy Analytics has revealed which apps are—knowingly or not—being used to collect your information behind the scenes. Some of the world’s most popular apps are likely ...

Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile are continuing their fight against fines for selling user location data, with two of the big three carriers submitting new court briefs arguing that the Federal ...

The FCC fined AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile over the mishandling of customers' location-based data. The companies plan of fighting it. Credit: Getty Images The U.S.'s major wireless carriers are ...

Verizon lost an attempt to overturn a $46.9 million fine for selling customer location data without its users’ consent. The US Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit rejected Verizon’s challenge in a ...

The San Diego Police Department has stopped sharing controversial surveillance data with federal authorities and other out-of-state agencies after state Attorney General Rob Bonta's office told the ...

Alexander was a Senior Research Associate for the Center for Data Analysis at The Heritage Foundation. In 2023 alone, there were around 450,000 approved H-1B applications. The majority of these were ...

The fate of the H-1B program – which offers U.S. employers a way to temporarily hire foreign workers in specialty occupations – has divided influential Republicans. Tech leaders like Elon Musk ...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined the top US wireless carriers a collective $200 million for sharing access to customers' location information without consent, the culmination of ...