It’s been over a year since 35 ACLU affiliates filed over 380 public records requests with state and local law enforcement agencies seeking information about their policies, procedures, and practices for tracking cell phones. And 13 months later (and in ...

Nevada quietly signed an agreement earlier this year with a company that collects location data from cellphones, allowing police to track a device virtually in real time — all without a warrant. The software from Fog Data Science, adopted this January in ...

The Washington Post's new report detailing the NSA's collection of location information on cell phones is blunt. The NSA's ability to track location is "staggering," meaning that it is "able to render most efforts at communications security effectively futile.