The U.S. National Security Agency collects five billion records every day tracking cell phone movements around the world, according to documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. In ...

Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that the U.S. Constitution does not provide any protection against government access to cell phone location records—records that reveal ...

Today, the ACLU published thousands of pages of previously unreleased records about how Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and other parts of the Department of ...

The Ohio Supreme Court ruled that location data voluntarily provided to apps is not protected by the Fourth Amendment. The ruling stems from a robbery case where police used location data from the ...

BOSTON — The state Senate has approved a “first-in-the-nation” ban on the sale of cell phone location data as part of a sweeping electric privacy bill but the plan faces opposition from business ...

Journalists in Europe found it was “easy” to spy on top European Union officials using commercially obtained location histories sold by data brokers, despite the continent having some of the strongest ...

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear a pair of cases, back-to-back, on cell phone privacy. At 10 a.m., the court takes up Riley v. California. And at 11 a.m., the court hears United States v. Wurie ...