Nevada quietly signed an agreement earlier this year with a company that collects location data from cellphones, allowing ...

Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Turns out the FBI’s been ...

The FBI is once again buying location data on Americans, confirming a surveillance method that had largely faded from public view. During a Senate hearing this week, Director Kash Patel said the ...

During a Senate hearing, FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed that his agency has bought information that could be used to track individuals' movement and location. "We do purchase commercially available ...

Data brokers are helping the FBI get around warrant requirements. Data brokers are helping the FBI get around warrant requirements. is a policy reporter at The Verge covering surveillance, the ...

The FBI has resumed purchasing reams of Americans’ data and location histories to aid federal investigations, the agency’s director, Kash Patel, testified to lawmakers on Wednesday. This is the first ...

What just happened? Following news that its human brain cell-powered computer can run Doom, Australian biotech startup Cortical Labs has announced it is working on two small data centers running on ...

Kayelani Vasquez tracks her daughter’s location when her daughter travels with her school’s sports team. She said it’s more about peace of mind and being able to see exactly where her daughter is when ...

ICE, CBP, and the Secret Service had purchased and used commercial geolocation data in ways that violated internal privacy policies and federal law, according to a September 2023 report by the DHS ...

WASHINGTON D.C. (KEYT) – On Tuesday, California's Senators joined 68 other members of Congress calling for an investigation into the warrantless purchase of cell phone location data by the Department ...

Oregon is leading a coalition of 24 states in a federal court challenge to President Trump’s latest tariffs, arguing the president exceeded his authority. Hours-long Vancouver standoff ends with ...

More than 70 Democrats in the House and Senate are pushing the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general to open a new investigation into the agency’s “warrantless purchases of Americans’ ...