Most people have easy access to location-sharing apps, but how they use them and the drama that ensues differs. For Maria-Camila Garcia (right), only her true friends let her track their whereabouts.

Most people have easy access to location-sharing apps, but how they use them and the drama that ensues differs. For Maria-Camila Garcia (right), only her true friends let her track their whereabouts.

It’s 10 p.m. — and you definitely know where your children are. Thanks to a proliferation of location-sharing apps, it’s become easy for parents, partners and pals to sneakily pinpoint the exact ...

It was discovered last year that location data for US military and intelligence personnel serving overseas was being sold by a Florida-based data broker, but the source of that sensitive data was ...

Chethan is a reporter at Android Police, focusing on the weekend news coverage for the site. He has covered tech for over a decade with multiple publications, including the likes of Times Internet, ...

Playing Candy Crush, swiping left on a dating app and checking your Yahoo inbox shouldn’t expose your location. I say shouldn’t, but those apps and thousands more were likely hijacked by data brokers ...

Back in Android 12, Google added some flexibility to Android’s location permission by allowing users to only give apps access to their “approximate” location. It’s a great idea, but one that’s ruined ...

Location sharing helps you worry less. Whether your friend’s late for dinner, your kid’s almost home or your partner’s on the way from the airport, it sure beats sending a bunch of texts back and ...

Location-sharing apps are shaping how we connect and communicate – especially among younger people. Snap Map, a popular feature within Snapchat, is widely used by teens and young adults to stay in the ...

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