The social media platform changed its privacy policy last month, inviting users to allow it to track their specific location.

Facebook wants to know “What’s on your mind?” Twitter asks “What’s happening?” But that’s getting old already. The burning question for the next wave of social networking is “Where are you?”–and ...

Sweepstakes casinos have to follow specific laws, and a big part of that is checking where players are located.

State legislatures are weighing a wave of protections for sensitive geolocation data that would redefine comprehensive ...

Websites employ web tracking for collecting relevant information about their visitors to serve them personalized content. A subset of web tracking, which is widely used in location tracking these days ...

One of the pieces of functionality commonly discussed when distinguishing HTML5 from previous versions of HTML is the standardization of geolocation via the Geolocation API. Although some browsers ...

No audio available for this content. The surveyor has been known throughout history for many things: part expert measurer, part historian, part lawyer and part geographer. These attributes have led ...

Geolocation data—information on the movement of individuals or commodities sourced from mobile devices and transponders on shipping vessels—has emerged as a valuable dataset in investment firms’ ...