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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Just want to let you know your cell phone is tracking you regardless if you have it in airplane mode or not. It even ping's when it's turned off. There is only one way to know for sure that you are ...