Of all of the recent technological developments that have expanded the surveillance capabilities of law enforcement agencies at the expense of individual privacy, perhaps the most powerful is cell ...

Essential phone settings to enable before losing your device, including Find My network, location services and security ...

Peter A. Crusco, executive assistant district attorney in the investigations division of the Office of the Queens County District Attorney, writes: On the federal level, the applicable standard for ...

Policing has grown increasingly reliant on cellular and GPS data, including information gleaned from geofence warrants. A geofence is a location-based service that uses GPS or other cellular data to ...

Earlier this year ICE ordered new vehicles equipped with smartphone-tracking hardware. Cell-tower simulating “Stingray” devices gather records on phones in their vicinity. Luckily, Android 16 includes ...

Police departments in Ohio are warning of a new scam using a phone and a magnet to track your location. The latest scheme involves criminals attaching a cell phone to the roof of a car with a magnet, ...

Many law enforcement agencies across the U.S. track mobile phones as part of investigations, but only a minority ask for court-ordered warrants, according to a new report released Monday by the ...