Google has agreed to a $391.5 million settlement with 40 states in connection with an investigation into how the company tracked users' locations, state attorneys general announced Monday, calling it ...

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is changing its Maps tool so that the company no longer has access to users' individual location histories, cutting off its ability to respond to law enforcement warrants that ...

Google announced changes to the way it harvests your location data this week that will finally put a stop to its compliance with geofence warrants, a police surveillance technique that many say ...

Google will soon allow users to store their location data on their devices rather than on Google’s servers, effectively ending a long-running surveillance practice that allowed police and law ...

Google has agreed to pay nearly $392 million in a settlement with 40 states over allegations that the company tracked people through their devices after location tracking had been turned off, a ...

Google has agreed to a record $391.5 million settlement with 40 states for allegedly misleading consumers over its location tracking practices, a coalition of attorneys general announced Monday. The ...

Privacy concerns and the potential for geofence warrants have prompted Google to work on storing Maps user location-history data on the device rather than in the ...

Google has settled for $93 million with California, resolving allegations that the company used location data without informed consent, violating the state’s consumer protection laws. The settlement ...

Google is making some big changes to Maps that will affect anyone who uses the app to plan trips, get directions, and access previous destinations. In a recent help page update, the company revealed ...

But with the Google Maps location data from Android smartphones, something else is possible: You can see at a glance where you have been particularly often and where you rarely go. This is made ...