Apple Maps has rolled out several of its offerings to new markets, including speed limits in Canada, turn-by-turn directions in India and new flyover locations and indoor maps.
While carriers record locations of customers’ devices on their network, they have little oversight in terms of monitoring how that data is being used once sold to a third party.
The popular Weather Channel app is being sued by the city of Los Angeles for allegedly covertly mining private data of its 45 million monthly users and selling it to third-party advertisers.
Apple requires apps to justify collecting location details via popups but they never mention advertising or data sale, only features like getting “estimated travel times”.
Google is already being scrutinized in the US over allegedly tracking smartphone users regardless of their privacy settings. Now it could be facing a similar lawsuit in Europe.
China doesn’t want to depend on the US’s GPS so it’s building its own satellite-based radio-navigation system.
With eight launch partners, including Spotify, Deezer, Pandora and others, Waze’s all new audio player functionality makes it easy to get lost in your music, not on the road.
Change the location data for your pictures where it’s missing or just for a little fun. Here’s how to easily adjust the geolocations for your iPhone photos.
This tutorial shows you how to adjust your Apple TV Location Services settings for built-in apps and those you install on Apple TV.
The U.S. military is no longer allowing the use of geolocators on fitness devices such as Apple Watch. The move affects personnel in “operational areas.”
The latest Google Maps update for iPhone and iPad should stop friends and family panicking if you’re not picking up their calls because they’ll now know you’re out of battery.
Customers in two European Union member countries, Croatia and Slovenia, can now take advantage of a set of directional arrows at the top of the Apple Maps interface to be in the right lane when exiting a freeway or completing a turn.