Are you location sharing with your besties? How friendship surveillance became the test of a true bond.

On any given Saturday in Boston, Beth George might tap open her iPhone’s Find My Friends app to take a quick scroll through thirty tiny dots scattered across her map. It’s not for surveillance ...

Sharing Your Location With Friends Is the Best Form of Social Media—and It’s Not Even Close

I’m not alone. Younger generations are spurning the social media sites of their parents, but what’s shocking is the ...
Skift

Apple and Delta Join Forces on New Baggage Tracking Tech — Exclusive

Apple and Delta take a notable step toward smarter, more integrated bag tracking — by connecting AirTag data directly to airline systems and more. Apple has expanded its role in travel with a new ...
Gizmodo

DHS Denies Its X Account Was Based in Israel as New Location Tracking Creates Chaos

Elon Musk's big change to X has caused an apocalypse for MAGA influencers, but it's not all good news. Reading time 6 minutes Elon Musk’s X activated a new feature over the weekend called “About this ...
SheKnows

I Begged My Parents To Track My Location at 16 & It Changed My Life

We have a saying in my very large, very Italian-American family: “I’d rather be paranoid than oblivious. Always be aware.” I was groomed to be paranoid, to look over my shoulder and scan the rooms I ...
CNN

I can track my college sons’ movements on my phone, but should I?

I can see my twin sons driving down to Florida, tracking south on I-85 toward Panama City Beach. I’m sure they won’t have noticed Newnan Towing Services and the Canongate 1 Golf Club flashing past the ...
Cult of Mac

Stop following me! Tweak iPhone location settings to keep spies at bay.

You can see all of the locations your iPhone thinks are significant and turn off the location features in Settings. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac If you’re uncomfortable with social media apps ...
Engadget

Tile trackers reportedly have a security flaw that can let stalkers track your location

Researchers have discovered major security flaws with Tile tracking tags, according to a report by Wired. These flaws could allow both the company itself and tech-savvy stalkers to track a user's ...
9to5Mac

Tile security flaws can let both the company and stalkers track your location

Researchers have discovered major Tile security flaws that could let both the company itself and a tech-savvy stalker track your location. These arise from two crucial differences between the security ...
Wired

Tile Tracking Tags Can Be Exploited by Tech-Savvy Stalkers, Researchers Say

Tile trackers, used to locate everything from lost keys to stolen pets, are used by more than 88 million people worldwide, according to Tile’s parent company, Life360. But researchers who examined the ...
Geeky Gadgets

3D Tracking With Ultra-Wideband : Unlock Real-Time Precision in Complex Spaces

Imagine a world where you can track the precise location of an object or person in real time, even in the most complex environments. With the rise of ultra-wideband (UWB) technology, this is no longer ...