Slashdot Items Tagged "tracking"

Date / Time Story
Thursday December 28, 2023 @06:33PM Researchers Come Up With Better Idea To Prevent AirTag Stalking
Thursday November 02, 2023 @04:22PM Apple Called Android a 'Massive Tracking Device' In 2013
Friday September 15, 2023 @03:38PM Google To Pay $155 Million In Settlements Over Location Tracking
Friday May 12, 2023 @05:17PM Bluetooth Tags For Android's 3 Billion-Strong Tracking Network Are Here
Tuesday January 10, 2023 @03:06AM Intelligent Vision Vehicle Tracking System - Inetra.ai
Friday January 06, 2023 @06:26PM Razer Made a Soundbar That Tracks Your Head To Optimize Sound
Monday January 02, 2023 @12:36PM Google to Pay $29.5 Million to Settle Lawsuits Over User Location Tracking
Tuesday December 27, 2022 @04:03AM How Fleet Tracking Solutions Can Help Cut the Fuel Cost of Your Fleet
Saturday December 24, 2022 @05:45AM Bytedance admits tracking locations of several TicToc-critical journalists
Thursday December 15, 2022 @09:40AM Price Tracking on Amazon and Competitor Price Tracking
Wednesday December 14, 2022 @10:57AM Intelligent Vision Vehicle Tracking System | Inetra.ai
Thursday November 17, 2022 @05:26PM Smartphone Location Tracking
Wednesday November 16, 2022 @06:56PM DuckDuckGo's Anti-Tracking Android Tool Could Be 'Even More Powerful' Than iOS
Friday November 11, 2022 @03:30AM Google face lawsuit in U.S. for tracking private internet use
Wednesday November 02, 2022 @10:52PM Google's Building Package Tracking Right Into Your Gmail Inbox
Wednesday November 02, 2022 @05:17PM Google's Building Package Tracking Right Into Your Gmail Inbox
Wednesday November 02, 2022 @03:38PM Big Meat Companies Want To Use Smartwatches To Track Workers' Every Move
Monday October 17, 2022 @04:51PM World's Second Richest Man Sells Jet So People On Twitter Won't Track Him Anymore
Saturday October 01, 2022 @05:19PM TikTok Tracks You Across the Web, Even If You Don't Use the App
Friday August 19, 2022 @05:41PM AirTag Leads To Arrest of Airline Worker Accused of Stealing $15K Worth of Items From Luggage
Thursday August 11, 2022 @05:29PM Meta Injecting Code Into Websites Visited By Its Users To Track Them, Research Says
Tuesday July 19, 2022 @07:42PM Critical Flaws In GPS Tracker Enable 'Disastrous' and 'Life-Threatening' Hacks
Tuesday May 31, 2022 @04:43PM Vodafone Plans Carrier-Level User Tracking For Targeted Ads
Friday April 15, 2022 @05:37PM Apple's App Tracking Transparency Crackdown Estimated To Cost Facebook Another $13 Billion In 2022
Thursday February 17, 2022 @05:55PM Wordle Is Watching You
Friday February 11, 2022 @05:30PM 'I Used Apple AirTags, Tiles and a GPS Tracker To Watch My Husband's Every Move'
Tuesday January 11, 2022 @06:57PM Mozilla Is Going To Track Facebook Tracking You
Friday December 03, 2021 @07:05PM Israel Halts Disputed Omicron Tracing Through Phone Surveillance
Monday July 12, 2021 @07:41PM Amazon Wants To Monitor You In Your Sleep, For Your Benefit
Friday May 14, 2021 @04:24PM Brave Browser Disables Google's FLoC Tracking System
Wednesday April 07, 2021 @05:48PM Google Illegally Tracking Android Users, According To New Complaint
Monday March 22, 2021 @03:38PM US Supreme Court Rebuffs Facebook Appeal In User Tracking Lawsuit
Tuesday March 09, 2021 @08:48PM HTC Now Seems To Be Teasing Vive Lip-Tracking
Thursday January 14, 2021 @05:08PM Google Closes the Fitbit Acquisition, Pledges To Not Use Data For Ads
Friday January 08, 2021 @09:45PM Google Launching a New Nest Hub In 2021 That Uses Soli For Sleep Tracking
Monday December 21, 2020 @06:06PM Firefox To Ship 'Network Partitioning' As a New Anti-Tracking Defense
Wednesday November 18, 2020 @09:17PM 'Extremely Aggressive' Internet Censorship Spreads In the World's Democracies
Thursday October 29, 2020 @05:04PM Brave Browser First To Nix CNAME Deception
Friday September 11, 2020 @04:49PM MIT Sleep Monitor Can Track People's Sleeping Positions Using Radio Signals
Wednesday September 02, 2020 @08:01PM You Can Now Track Carbon In an Ear of Corn From Farm to Table
Saturday July 18, 2020 @12:21AM The Entire World's Carbon Emissions Will Finally Be Trackable In Real Time
Tuesday July 07, 2020 @06:14PM Only 9% of Visitors Give GDPR Consent To Be Tracked
Monday June 22, 2020 @08:49PM Find My Tracking In iOS 14 Will Locate Third-Party Devices
Tuesday June 02, 2020 @08:22PM Google Faces $5 Billion Lawsuit In US For Tracking 'Private' Internet Use
Tuesday June 02, 2020 @05:42PM Apple Warns Looters With Stolen iPhones: You Are Being Tracked
Tuesday May 26, 2020 @04:26PM China Wants To Use Its Coronavirus App To Track How Much Its Citizens Sleep, Drink, and Smoke
Tuesday April 21, 2020 @08:23PM Stripe Is Silently Recording Your Movements On Its Customers' Websites
Wednesday April 08, 2020 @04:43PM Italy Working On Coronavirus Tracing App To Help Lockdown Exit
Tuesday January 28, 2020 @06:47PM US Colleges Are Trying To Install Location Tracking Apps On Students' Phones
Monday January 27, 2020 @07:53PM Albatrosses Outfitted With GPS Trackers Detect Illegal Fishing Vessels
Monday January 13, 2020 @09:21PM App Tracking Alert In iOS 13 Has Dramatically Cut Location Data Flow To Ad Industry
Tuesday December 24, 2019 @06:26PM Watch Santa Travel Across 3D Globe Via NORAD's Santa Tracker
Wednesday December 18, 2019 @05:56PM Facebook Fails To Convince Lawmakers It Needs To Track Your Location At All Times
Monday December 09, 2019 @08:49PM Apple's Ad-Targeting Crackdown Shakes Up Ad Market
Monday December 09, 2019 @06:15PM Oculus Quest Becomes First VR Set With Native Hand Tracking
Friday November 15, 2019 @07:30PM Most Americans Think They're Being Constantly Tracked, Study Finds
Friday October 11, 2019 @04:45PM Smart TVs Are Data-Collecting Machines, New Study Shows
Wednesday October 09, 2019 @07:35PM Opera's Desktop Browser Gets Built-In Tracking Protection
Friday September 13, 2019 @05:25PM Alabama Tracking Students' Locations To Penalize Them For Leaving Games Early
Thursday August 01, 2019 @06:23PM Private Space Race Targets Greenhouse Gas Emitters
Thursday July 18, 2019 @06:48PM Google and Facebook Might Be Tracking Your Porn History, Researchers Warn
Friday June 28, 2019 @03:14AM Microsoft Brings Tracking Prevention To Its Edge Browser
Tuesday June 25, 2019 @04:41PM Smartphones and Fitness Trackers Are Being Used To Gauge Employee Performance
Friday June 14, 2019 @01:05AM Sleep Trackers Can Make Your Insomnia Worse
Tuesday June 04, 2019 @05:38PM Firefox Starts Blocking Third-Party Cookies By Default
Monday June 03, 2019 @09:09PM Apple Limits Tracking and Ads In Kid-Focused Apps
Wednesday May 22, 2019 @04:53PM Millions of Golfers Land In Privacy Hazard After Cloud Misconfig
Tuesday May 21, 2019 @05:19PM Comcast Is Reportedly Developing a Device That Would Track Your Bathroom Habits
Monday April 15, 2019 @06:43PM TicTocTrack Smartwatch Flaws Can Be Abused To Track Kids
Monday April 08, 2019 @05:29PM Chicago Is Tracking Kids Awaiting Trial With GPS Monitors That Can Call, Record Them Without Consent
Tuesday April 02, 2019 @04:50PM Satellite Airliner Tracking Over Oceans Goes Global
Wednesday March 27, 2019 @04:40PM Facebook To Fight Belgian Ban On Tracking Users (And Even Non-Users)
Thursday March 14, 2019 @03:32PM Boeing 737 Max Crashes 'Linked' By Satellite Track Data, FAA Says
Saturday February 09, 2019 @12:48AM Tesla Hacker Launches Open-Source Project 'FreedomEV' To Run On Rooted Teslas, Bring New Wi-Fi Hotspot and Anti-Tracking Features
Monday January 28, 2019 @08:50PM Google's Sidewalk Labs Plans To Sell Location Data On Millions of Cellphones
Thursday January 10, 2019 @06:05PM Netflix Password Sharing May Soon Be Impossible Due To New AI Tracking
Friday November 16, 2018 @06:43PM MiSafes' Child-Tracking Smartwatches Are 'Easy To Hack'
Wednesday October 24, 2018 @07:40PM New Study Claims Data Harvesting Among Android Apps Is 'Out of Control'
Sunday October 21, 2018 @04:46AM Experimental Android App Determines Alertness By Examining Eyes
Monday October 08, 2018 @06:30PM UK High Court Blocks Billion-Dollar Privacy Lawsuit Against Google
Wednesday September 19, 2018 @05:05PM John Hancock Will Include Fitness Tracking In All Life Insurance Policies
Monday September 17, 2018 @05:29PM New Trump Tariffs Won't Include Fitness Trackers Or the Apple Watch
Friday September 14, 2018 @05:25PM What Cardiologists Think About the Apple Watch's Heart-Tracking Feature
Thursday September 13, 2018 @07:24PM MIT Is Building a Health-Tracking Sensor That Can See Through Walls
Monday August 20, 2018 @05:07PM Man Sues Over Google's 'Location History' Fiasco, Case Could Affect Millions
Monday August 06, 2018 @10:47PM Pentagon Restricts Use of Location-Logging Fitness Trackers
Sunday July 29, 2018 @03:00AM Boston Globe Outs Secret TSA Tracking Program 'Quiet Skies' At Airports
Friday July 20, 2018 @06:26PM New Wearable Sensor Detects Stress Hormone In Sweat
Thursday May 17, 2018 @05:11PM Cell Phone Tracking Firm Exposed Millions of Americans' Real-time Locations
Friday May 11, 2018 @10:18PM The Tech Used To Monitor Inmate Calls Is Able To Track Civilians Too
Sunday April 22, 2018 @02:28PM Who Has More of Your Personal Data Than Facebook? Try Google
Wednesday April 18, 2018 @07:48PM 'Login With Facebook' Data Hijacked By JavaScript Trackers
Thursday April 12, 2018 @04:50PM Firefox 11.0 For iOS Arrives With Tracking Protection On By Default
Tuesday March 13, 2018 @04:29PM How Your Returns Are Used Against You At Best Buy, Other Retailers
Monday March 12, 2018 @03:59PM University of Arizona Tracks Student ID Card Swipes To Detect Who Might Drop Out
Tuesday March 06, 2018 @12:05AM MoviePass CEO Proudly Says App Tracks Your Location Before, After Movies
Friday February 02, 2018 @01:40AM DuckDuckGo CEO: 'Google and Facebook Are Watching Our Every Move Online. It's Time To Make Them Stop'
Thursday February 01, 2018 @05:27PM Amazon Patents Wristbands Designed To Track and Steer Employees' Movements
Monday January 29, 2018 @05:16PM Pentagon Reviews GPS Policies After Fitness Trackers Reveal Locations
Thursday January 11, 2018 @05:16PM Apple Health Data Is Being Used As Evidence In a Rape and Murder Investigation
Friday December 01, 2017 @05:00PM Blockchains Are Poised To End the Password Era
Friday December 01, 2017 @04:34PM Homeland Security Claims DJI Drones Are Spying For China
Thursday November 30, 2017 @06:15PM Australian Man Uses Snack Bags As Faraday Cage To Block Tracking By Employer
Tuesday November 28, 2017 @08:08PM Three Quarters of Android Apps Track Users With Third Party Tools, Says Study
Tuesday November 14, 2017 @05:28PM FDA Approves Digital Pill That Tracks If Patients Have Ingested Their Medication
Thursday September 21, 2017 @04:21PM DC Court Rules Tracking Phones Without a Warrant Is Unconstitutional
Thursday September 21, 2017 @03:53PM Firefox For iOS Gets Tracking Protection, Firefox Focus For Android Gets Tabs
Tuesday September 19, 2017 @06:01PM Popular Steam Extension 'Inventory Helper' Spies On Users, Says Report
Thursday September 14, 2017 @05:04PM Spain Fines Facebook Over Tracking Users Without Consent
Friday September 08, 2017 @04:09PM UN Aviation Agency To Call For Global Drone Registry
Monday August 21, 2017 @04:38PM Third Party Trackers On Web Shops Can Identify Users Behind Bitcoin Transactions
Monday July 31, 2017 @05:37PM Privacy Watchdog Asks FTC To Look Into Google's Offline Shopping Tracker
Tuesday June 20, 2017 @03:46PM Mozilla Launches Privacy-Minded 'Firefox Focus' Browser For Android
Monday June 12, 2017 @06:45PM Hackers Can Spoof Phone Numbers, Track Users Via 4G VoLTE Mobile Technology
Tuesday May 23, 2017 @05:07PM Google Following Your Offline Credit Card Spending To Tell Advertisers If Their Ads Work
Monday April 24, 2017 @07:16PM Uber Gets Sued Over Alleged 'Hell' Program To Track Lyft Drivers
Tuesday April 18, 2017 @04:42PM Malaysia Air Is First Airline To Track Fleet With Satellites
Wednesday April 05, 2017 @04:53PM Canada's RCMP National Police Force Reveals Use of Secretive Cellphone Surveillance Technology
Friday March 10, 2017 @04:24PM MAC Address Randomization Flaws Leave Android and iOS Phones Open To Tracking
Monday March 06, 2017 @07:06PM Poachers Are Trying To Hack Animal Tracking Systems
Wednesday February 15, 2017 @07:11PM Bipartisan Bill Seeks Warrants For Police Use of 'Stingray' Cell Trackers
Tuesday February 14, 2017 @04:09PM New Office Sensors Know When You Leave Your Desk
Thursday February 02, 2017 @07:01PM Windows DRM-Protected Files Used To Decloak Tor Browser Users
Tuesday November 15, 2016 @05:36PM DJI Unveils Phantom 4 Pro and Inspire 2 Drones
Thursday November 03, 2016 @07:26PM The Secretive $4.5 Billion Startup 'Magic Leap' Is Gearing Up To Release A Consumer Version of Its Tech
Wednesday October 26, 2016 @07:59PM Delta Now Lets You Track Your Baggage In Real-Time
Saturday October 22, 2016 @12:33AM Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban On Personally Identifiable Web Tracking
Tuesday October 11, 2016 @01:08PM Facebook, Instagram, Twitter Block Tool For Cops To Surveil You On Social Media
Tuesday September 13, 2016 @05:37PM New York Fines Viacom, Mattel and Hasbro For Tracking Kids Online
Tuesday August 23, 2016 @07:46PM US Trade Judge Clears Fitbit of Stealing Jawbone's Trade Secrets
Tuesday August 16, 2016 @05:18PM FCC Complaint: Baltimore Police Breaking Law With Use of Stingray Phone Trackers
Wednesday August 03, 2016 @11:21AM Your Battery Status Is Being Used To Track You Online
Friday July 22, 2016 @04:32PM Edward Snowden At Comic-Con: 'I Live a Surprisingly Free Life'
Wednesday July 20, 2016 @07:14PM Saudi Arabia Revives 15-Year-Old Ban On 'Zionism-Promoting' Pokemon
Friday July 15, 2016 @04:30PM Cybercrime Overtakes Traditional Crime In UK, Says Report
Wednesday July 13, 2016 @07:08PM Ex-Google Engineer Launches Blockchain-Based System For Banks
Wednesday June 29, 2016 @04:38PM Google's My Activity Reveals How Much It Knows About You
Thursday June 23, 2016 @05:26PM HTML5 Ads Aren't That Safe Compared To Flash, Experts Say
Wednesday June 22, 2016 @02:57PM Advertiser That Tracked Around 100M Phone Users Without Consent Pays $950,000
Tuesday June 07, 2016 @02:59AM 'Alarming' Rise In Ransomware Tracked
Friday June 03, 2016 @05:45PM FBI Developing Software To Track, Sort People By Their Tattoos
Thursday June 02, 2016 @07:18PM Samsung Unveils Gear Fit 2 Activity Tracker and IconX Wireless Earbuds
Friday May 27, 2016 @10:46AM Facebook Begins Tracking Non-Users Around the Internet
Thursday May 26, 2016 @06:02PM Smartphone Surveillance Tech Used To Target Anti-Abortion Ads At Pregnant Women
Tuesday May 24, 2016 @11:19PM Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Fitbit For 'Highly Inaccurate' Heart Rate Trackers
Thursday May 19, 2016 @07:02PM Google Is A Serial Tracker
Tuesday April 26, 2016 @09:30PM Zero Zero's Camera Drone Could Be A Robot Command Center In The Future
Tuesday April 26, 2016 @06:49PM Millions Of Waze Users Can Have Their Movements Tracked By Hackers
Thursday April 21, 2016 @08:02AM Magic Leap Adds Virtual Reality Head-Tracking and Possibly Hand-Tracking
Friday March 25, 2016 @04:47PM Bill Introduced To Require ID When Purchasing "Burner Phones"
Friday March 18, 2016 @10:13PM FTC Warns Android App Developers About Use of Audio-Tracking Code
Wednesday March 16, 2016 @02:45PM Your Data Footprint Is Affecting Your Life In Ways You Can't Even Imagine
Wednesday March 09, 2016 @11:58PM Oculus Co-Founder's New Venture: Long-Range Virtual Reality Tracking System
Tuesday February 09, 2016 @11:45PM French Gov't Gives Facebook 3 Months To Stop Tracking Non-User Browsers
Thursday February 04, 2016 @06:21PM Firefox 44 Deletes Fine-Grained Cookie Management
Tuesday February 02, 2016 @11:15PM Shopping Mall SMS Parking Notifications Could Be Used To Track Any Car
Tuesday February 02, 2016 @06:04PM EU Proposes End of Anonymity For Bitcoin and Prepaid Card Users
Sunday January 31, 2016 @09:06PM Israeli Vulture Suspected of Spying Returned
Tuesday January 26, 2016 @03:17PM Stingray Case Lawyers: "Everyone Knows Cell Phones Generate Location Data"
Tuesday January 19, 2016 @09:45AM Tracking Protection In Wi-Fi Networks Coming Soon To Linux
Saturday December 12, 2015 @03:34PM DHS Deployed Plane Above San Bernardino To Scoop Up All Phone Calls After Attack
Tuesday December 08, 2015 @01:59PM New Software Puts License Plate Scanners Into Citizens' Hands
Tuesday December 08, 2015 @12:35PM Hit-and-Run Suspect Arrested After Her Own Car Calls Cops
Friday November 13, 2015 @10:07PM Ad Networks Using Inaudible Sound To Link Phones, Tablets and Other Devices
Thursday October 08, 2015 @12:29PM Verizon Is Merging Its Cellphone Tracking Supercookie with AOL's Ad Tracking Network
Thursday October 08, 2015 @10:21AM Ask Slashdot: Where Can I Find "Nuts and Bolts" Info On Cookies & Tracking Mechanisms?
Sunday July 26, 2015 @11:45PM After Progressive Insurance's Snapshot Hacked, Manufacturer Has Been, Too
Wednesday May 06, 2015 @03:45PM Police Can Obtain Cellphone Location Records Without a Warrant
Saturday March 21, 2015 @01:51PM A Sucker Is Optimized Every Minute
Saturday March 07, 2015 @04:38PM Fujitsu Tech Can Track Heavily Blurred People In Security Videos
Tuesday January 20, 2015 @10:51AM Moscow To Track Cell-phone Users In 2015 For Traffic Analysis
Friday January 09, 2015 @01:48PM Glitch In OS X Search Can Expose Private Details of Apple Mail Users
Saturday December 27, 2014 @04:25PM Google and Apple Weaseling Out of "Do Not Track"
Thursday December 25, 2014 @11:49AM How Target's Mobile App Uses Location Tech To Track You
Sunday December 14, 2014 @03:43PM How Identifiable Are You On the Web?
Saturday November 15, 2014 @06:31PM AT&T Stops Using 'Super Cookies' To Track Cellphone Data
Thursday November 06, 2014 @06:56PM EFF Hints At Lawsuit Against Verizon For Its Stealth Cookies
Tuesday July 22, 2014 @08:09AM A New Form of Online Tracking: Canvas Fingerprinting
Wednesday October 30, 2013 @01:06PM Facebook Testing Screen-Tracking Software For Users
Wednesday October 30, 2013 @12:46PM Police Use James-Bond-Style GPS Bullet
Sunday August 11, 2013 @01:49PM Londoners Tracked By Advertising Firm's Trash Cans
Sunday July 28, 2013 @03:51PM Consumer Rights Groups Take Issue With NTIA Code of Conduct For Mobile Apps
Tuesday January 08, 2013 @12:56PM Disney Wants To Track You With RFID
Friday October 19, 2012 @07:44PM Real-Time Cyber-Attack Map
Tuesday October 16, 2012 @11:19AM Texas Schools Using Electronic Chips To Track Students; Parents In Uproar
Saturday October 06, 2012 @06:46PM Adam Dunkels On the Internet of Things
Tuesday September 11, 2012 @12:48PM Activision Blizzard Secretly Watermarking World of Warcraft Users
Friday July 20, 2012 @07:40AM Apple Yanks Privacy App From the App Store
Tuesday June 12, 2012 @08:01AM Google and Facebook Top Biggest Web Tracker List
Friday March 02, 2012 @07:06PM Car Hacking Concerns On the Rise
Friday March 02, 2012 @07:06PM Scannable Condoms Allow Users to 'Check-In' During Safe Sex
Sunday February 26, 2012 @10:07AM After US v. Jones, FBI Turns Off 3,000 GPS Tracking Devices
Thursday February 23, 2012 @11:05AM Internet Giants To Honor the 'No' In 'No Tracking'
Thursday February 16, 2012 @10:11AM Indian Government To Track Locations of All Cell Phone Users
Saturday February 11, 2012 @02:02PM Scientists Print Cheap RFID Tags On Paper
Saturday November 19, 2011 @01:31PM Ask Slashdot: Inexpensive Anti-Theft Vehicle Tracking System?
Tuesday November 15, 2011 @10:59AM Google To Allow Location Service Opt-out
Thursday September 22, 2011 @04:03PM Surveillance Case May Reveal FBI Cellphone Tracking Techniques
Friday September 02, 2011 @09:15PM Heise's 'Two Clicks For More Privacy' vs. Facebook
Wednesday April 27, 2011 @09:26AM Apple Updating iOS To Address Privacy Concerns