OnStar Now Tracking Your Car Even After You Cancel Service
OnStar sent around an email to users this week letting them know they’ll be keeping close tabs on their cars, even if they cancel the service. The navigation-and-emergency service will keep tracking...
View ArticleOnStar Says Not To Worry About It Tracking Your Car Even After You Cancel It
Last week, OnStar raised some eyebrows when they emailed their customers to say that the company will tracking their car even after they canceled service. They then followed up with an emailed...
View ArticleOnTrac Marks My Packages 'Delivered' Today, Delivers Them Tomorrow
Last week, we shared a story from a reader who got a very early wakeup call from OnTrac, on his porch with an Amazon package a few days earlier than anticipated. Ryan, meanwhile, has sort of the...
View ArticleApple Will Prevent Businesses From Tracking iPhone Users Via Wifi
(immaculate aaron)Remember when Nordstrom began tracking customers’ movements in and out of their stores by using smartphones’ individual Media Access Control (MAC) addresses if those phones tried to...
View ArticleNew, Updated Foursquare Is Always Watching You… Even When You Aren’t Running...
(me and the sysop)If you launch Foursquare, you expect it to know where you are. The app is explicitly designed to record your location when you open it and so nobody’s shocked if it, well, records...
View ArticleVerizon Wireless Will Finally Allow Users To Opt Out Of Being Tracked By...
(Amanda Hoffman) Verizon has been watching you. If you use their mobile service, Verizon has been tracking your every move on the internet for the better part of the last two years, with no way for you...
View ArticleLawmakers Want To Know Who’s Tracking You Online, And Where The Info Goes
(Mr Seb) Everything you do online — on your phone, on your computer, with anything — leaves a digital wake. Put those trails together and you’ve got one massive big data industry that can (and does)...
View ArticleVirginia Limits Retention Of License Plate Capture Data To 7 Days
(frankieleon)We’ve shared with you before the that both private companies and law enforcement are combining images of motorists’ license plates with geographic data about where those plates were...
View ArticleYou Can Now Finally, Really Truly, Opt Out Of Verizon Wireless Tracking...
(Amanda Hoffman) Back in January, Verizon Wireless said they would let users opt out of a problematic universal tracking “super cookie” they had been using for years. This week, Verizon’s finally got...
View ArticlePrivacy Advocates Sue Virginia Police Over Data From Automatic License Plate...
(Triborough)By itself, your license plate doesn’t say much except in what state, month, and year you registered your car. But start tracking where and when that license plate goes, and you’ve suddenly...
View ArticleAmerican Airlines Launches Real-Time Baggage Tracking Service For Travelers
After a long day of traveling the last thing you want to deal with is lost baggage, but, unfortunately, that’s a very real situation for millions of consumers: over the last five years, the...
View ArticleComing Soon To An AOL Ad Network Near You: All That Data Verizon Collects On...
When Verizon first announced its plans to acquire AOL back in May, jokes abounded. The name “AOL” still conjures the sound of modems screeching and a friendly digital voice announcing haltingly,...
View ArticleOwners Help Police Track Stolen Tesla Through Mobile App
When a thief steals a car it can take owners days, week or even years to retrieve their property. Apparently that’s not the case when your vehicle happens to be a Tesla Model S: a Canadian couple was...
View ArticleVerizon, FCC Settle “Supercookie” Investigation With $1.35M Fine And Opt-Out...
In 2014 and 2015, Verizon caught a lot of attention for doing a couple of very sneaky things. One, they were inserting a little piece of code into all the web traffic on your phone to track your every...
View ArticleStudy: Your Computer May Be Tracking You Online Through An ‘Audio Fingerprint’
We all kind of know that our devices, and our activities on them, are being tracked. In response, there are entire categories of apps and services that let you browse incognito, block ads, or hide your...
View ArticleFTC Orders Company That Used Verizon ‘Supercookies’ To Disclose Terms,...
A couple of years ago, Verizon caught a lot of heat for a very sneaky practice: the company was inserting a unique, permanent piece of code into all the web traffic on your phone, without user consent,...
View ArticleSen. Franken Asks Uber To Give Customers More Control Over Use Of Their Data
Last month, Uber updated its location tracking policies asking users to allow the app to continue following them for five minutes after their ride ends. Unsurprisingly, the change was met with some...
View Article5 Things We’ve Learned About How Companies Track You Online And Off
Is there an ad that seems to be following you everywhere? Perhaps you browsed for new sneakers in a slow moment at work a week ago, and now you see ads for them on every site you view on your phone? Or...
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