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Location information belongs to the TRACKING category of personal information.
Definition
Location information is defined as information about an individual’s location.
- i.e. Country, GPS coordinates, room number
Relevant Laws
- Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994 (United States)
- Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1970 (United States)
- Federal Election Campaign Act (United States)
- Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (United States)
- Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (United States)
- Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (United States)
- Privacy Act of 1974 (United States)
- Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (United States)
- The Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978 (United States)
- Video Privacy Protection Act (United States)
Relevant Articles
- Abusers Using Smartphones to Track Victims
- Access to Face Recognition Search of Moscow Cameras System Is For Sale
- AccuWeather App Stealing Location Data
- Advertising Agency Uses Geofencing to Target Women Near Abortion Centers
- Amazon Extending Prime into Whole Foods
- Amazon’s ‘Just Walk Out’ Tech Is a Privacy Nightmare
- App Spied on Belarusian Protesters
- Apple Faces Lawsuit Over AirTag Stalking Dangers
- Apps Sending Personal Information to Facebook
- Australian Security Cameras Hacked
- Automated Tenants Background Checks
- Baltimore Police Flies Planes With Cameras
- Bluetooth Low Energy Data Transfer Technology
- California hits Google for $93M over deceptive location data options
- Car Companies Tracking Drivers With AI
- Cellebrite Hackers Help United States Law Enforcement Hack Peoples Phones
- Child Safety Smartwatches Easy to Hack
- China's Massive Data Breach Reveals Growing Concerns Over Surveillance State
- Chinese Database With Details on More Than Two Million People
- Clearview's Facial Recognition App
- Companies Track Phone’s Movements to Target Ads to Its Owners
- Contact Tracing Apps
- DHS Buys Cellphone Location Data
- Data Analytical Services (DAS) Program, Formerly Known as Hemisphere,
- Data Вroker LexisNexis Selling DMV Data
- Dataminr Helps Police Track Protesters
- Departments of Motor Vehicles Sell Personal Information of Drivers
- Digital Harassment After an Online Affair
- EasyJet Cyber Attack
- Exploring the Perceptions of Location Sharing: Privacy vs. Affection
- FBI Using Travel Company Data to Track People
- Facebook's "People You May Know" Feature
- Facebook's Search Profile Function
- Fayette Schools Introduce Thermal Imaging Cameras
- Flickr Share Images with MegaFace
- Ford's GPS Tracking Speed
- France aims to protect kids from parents oversharing pics online
- Geofencing Technology To Target Catholics At Mass
- Geofencing Used To Monitor Antiracism Protesters
- Google Acquires Fitbit
- Google Asks for Location Data in COVID19 Exposure Notification Software
- Google Collects Location Data
- Google Combining Search and Location Data
- Google Faces $5 Billion Lawsuit For Collecting User Data In Incognito Mode
- Google People Cards Feature
- Google Smart Displays to Monitor Peoples Proximity
- Gravatar Can Be Abused for Information Collection of Its Profiles
- IBMs Weather Channel App Sharing User Location Data
- IRS Harvesting Data From a Database of Smartphone Movements
- Impersonating Profiles on Grindr