On Christmas Day, a 15-year-old girl took her dog for a walk but didn’t return at her usual time. Authorities credit her father's quick response.

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Let me tell you a story about Canada. A little under a year ago a 65-year-old man named Frederick “John” Hatch was found burned to death near the town of Erin, Ontario, which is west of Toronto. Hatch had last been seen alive the day before ...

Of course, I’m well aware of the location-sharing features that smartphones offer. Apple and Google both make it easy to let friends and family track your whereabouts, which in turn gives those companies valuable location data (and, in Apple’s case, reinforces the social pressure to have an iPhone ).

Our phones know where we are and they know where we have been—the problem is they have a nasty habit of sharing that information with others. And the latest location tracking nightmare to hit phone users shows the threat remains, despite new protections ...

Smartphones are useful tools for everyday life, but they're privy to nearly everything about you, including all the places you've been — if you let them. Smartphones are useful tools for everyday life, but they're privy to nearly everything about you ...

LONDON (AP) — Smartphones are useful tools for everyday life, but they’re privy to nearly everything about you, including all the places you’ve been — if you let them. When you use a map app to find the new restaurant your friend recommended, or ...

Android already warns when your location is being tracked — but not by which apps. That puts the onus on users to play detective, diving into privacy settings to work out which apps need to be curtailed or even removed. Few do that. This makes it easy.