From opening your garage door as you drive up to arming your security system when you leave, a geofence can make your smart ...

In the world of business and advertisement, geofencing is a location-based service in which an application or other software uses GPS, RFID, Wi-Fi or cellular data to trigger a pre-programmed action ...

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has broken new ground again — but perhaps not in the way you might think. While that court has issued extreme rulings aligned with Republican Party preferences ...

I wrote last week about an oral argument in the Fourth Circuit involving geofence warrants. Geofence warrants are warrants to obtain the location data that Google users let Google collect if they opt ...

Google will soon allow users to store their location data on their devices rather than on Google’s servers, effectively ending a long-running surveillance practice that allowed police and law ...

Richard Nieva was a senior reporter for CNET News, focusing on Google and Yahoo. He previously worked for PandoDaily and Fortune Magazine, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, on ...

Much of the litigation over geofencing has been under the Fourth Amendment in criminal cases, and there has been a lot of it. See, e.g., Certiorari Petition to U.S. Supreme Court in 4th Circuit ...

Digital privacy rights defenders contend that geofencing warrants grab data on everyone near a crime, without cause. Newly released data by Google sheds light on a controversial practice called ...

Surveillance cameras captured the loud thump of bicyclist Pamela Morehouse being hit from behind on a Sunday evening bike ride in Crescent City, California, three miles from the Pacific Ocean near the ...

Elon Musk’s Los Angeles Tesla diner, which opens its doors at 4:20 p.m. (get it?) today, is gearing up to debut a new ordering technology that will track when Tesla drivers enter a certain radius of ...

Qujam, an advertising technology company simplifying location-based advertising, announced it is ramping up development of its ...