Emilee Rader receives funding from the National Science Foundation. If you use a mobile phone with location services turned on, it is likely that data about where you live and work, where you shop for ...

In November 2025, a claim (archived) circulated online that Elon Musk, the X owner and former adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, shut down X's account-location feature after it revealed ...

Google has announced that Chrome will soon connect to websites more securely by default. Beginning with Chrome 154, set for release in October 2026, the browser will automatically activate the Always ...

What are location pages and why do they matter for SEO? Location landing pages are website pages representing the different branches of chains and franchises. Any local business with more than one ...

Instagram’s new location-sharing Map feature is raising privacy concerns among some users, who worry their whereabouts could be tracked or misused. Meta announced the rollout this week, introducing a ...

Instagram's new Map feature lets you share your location with friends in real-time, but the addition has prompted concerns over privacy and safety. Added on Wednesday for U.S. users in the Instagram ...

Instagram has launched a new feature — and it's putting your location on the map, literally. Instagram owner Meta announced on Aug. 6 that it had rolled out a new feature that will give users access ...

Google’s Find My Device app is getting a handy new feature to help you track your loved ones. The feature adds a new People hub to the app that shows the real-time location of users who have shared ...

Millions of people using some of the world's most popular apps may have had their locations leaked in a major hack. Tinder, Spotify, Citymapper, Mumsnet and Sky News were among hundreds of companies ...

You likely have never heard of Babel Street or Location X, but chances are good that they know a lot about you and anyone else you know who keeps a phone nearby around the clock. Reston, ...

Snapchat is quietly rolling out a new “Footsteps” feature to all iOS users this week, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday. The new feature, which was previously only available to Snapchat+ ...

Whether you're enjoying a taste of the future with the iPhone 15 or getting the most out of an iPhone you've had for several years, you're probably familiar with the "Find My" app. What started as a ...