The Milwaukee Police Department (MPD) is pursuing upgrades to technology used to track phones during investigations. Known as ...

A new report takes a look at just how closely a phone tracking tool is able to follow smartphone users. Credit: d3sign via Getty Your smartphone is likely being tracked by a tool called Locate X. Law ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Assemblyman Sean M. Ryan says the Erie County Sheriff should get a search warrant when using a cell phone tracking device, known as a Stingray. Ryan says the sheriff is still ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Erie County law enforcement’s use of cell phone tracking technology during the past four and a half years is legal and justified, Sheriff Timothy Howard said Wednesday. In an ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Some cell phone users in Kansas City and St. Louis may be participating in an experiment, unbeknownst to them, every time they take to the highway. After more than a year delay, ...

Capitalizing on all the information we put into our cell phones, Verizon Wireless is selling all our app usage and location information to marketers, reports CNET's Declan McCullagh. Part of what it ...

Last week, Motherboard reported that some of the largest cell phone companies are selling real-time phone locations, and that that data is ending up on the black market. Now, Congress wants answers.

A U.S. district court has begun hearing arguments in a case with major implications for the government’s secret tracking of cell phones. Daniel David Rigmaiden, who faces fraud charges, wants the ...

Two hikers had to be tracked down after getting lost on a Western Massachusetts trail. The hikers were on Sanderson Brook Falls, which is in Chester-Blandford State Forest. Hikes in the area range ...