The Latest on Google's location-tracking settings (all times local): 3 p.m. Lawmakers are vowing to step up their oversight of the data collection practices of giant technology companies after an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When signed in to your Google account, your searches, clicked links, images, and videos are tracked. Things like your IP address, ...

LONDON (AP) — Smartphones are useful tools for everyday life, but they’re privy to nearly everything about you, including all the places you’ve been — if you let them. When you use a map app to find ...

Sign up for our Metro US email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox! HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Search giant Google has ...

News broke last week that a company has been tracking millions of smartphone users over long periods of time without any opt-in permission or notification, potentially violating state and federal laws ...

As they say, Big Brother is always watching. For this generation, long after the George Orwell novel was written, that phrase can be used to describe Google. We use Google in our daily lives for ...

Our phones know where we are and they know where we have been—the problem is they have a nasty habit of sharing that information with others. And the latest location tracking nightmare to hit phone ...

Search giant Google has agreed to a $391.5 million settlement with Maryland and 39 other states to resolve an investigation into how the company tracked users’ locations, state attorneys general ...