Illustration by Texas Observer staff. One sheriff who leads an anti-smuggling task force says the software helps “develop leads to eventually obtain probable cause.” Civil liberties experts say its ...

Texas father uses phone tracking to rescue daughter after alleged knife-point kidnapping Fox News correspondent Caroline Elliott reports on the arrest of a 23-year-old suspect after a Texas father ...

“Christmas is a day meant for joy, but this man chose to shatter that joy by targeting a child,” a Texas official said of the suspect Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been ...

A father in Texas saved his 15-year-old daughter after he traced her phone to find the location where she was being held and kidnapped, deputies said. The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office said it ...

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas — A 15-year-old girl who didn't return home after school was found miles away in a pickup truck after her father tracked her phone, according to the Montgomery County ...

Google is rolling out the Android 16 QPR3 Beta 1 update to compatible Pixel devices, and among the build’s headline features is a new privacy-related feature: a location indicator (via Android ...

Nvidia Develops Location Tracking Tech for Its GPUs to Thwart Smuggling There's still no kill switch, but the optional feature would use GPU telemetry to estimate the location of a graphics card. It ...

BENGALURU, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Amnesty International has said India's review of a telecom industry proposal to mandate always-on satellite location tracking on phones for better lawful surveillance was ...

The government of India is apparently reviewing a contentious new proposal from telecom lobbyists that has raised alarms over privacy concerns. It seems that the proposal wants the government to ...

A new Reuters report reveals that India is examining a proposal that could significantly expand how phone locations are accessed during investigations. According to the report, the government is ...

Some of the arguments made against the proposal of forcing always-on location tracking include undermining user privacy, exposing sensitive groups (journalists, judges, and defence personnel) to ...

Just days after the government withdrew its order mandating pre installation of cyber-safety app Sanchar Saathi on all smartphones, the Central Government is now ...