Even with GPS disabled, Google knows where you are. Here is how non-GPS tracking works and the steps you can take to secure your location data today.

Turning off GPS doesn’t completely hide your location. Google can still estimate where you are using Wi-Fi, mobile towers, ...

Many smartphone users assume that turning off GPS completely hides their location. However, Google can still estimate where ...

Getting a solid GPS location in a city can be tough thanks to all the tall buildings. Skyscrapers reflect the GPS signal and can make your location data go crazy, but now, Google says it can correct ...

Google agreed to pay a total of $391.5 million to 40 US states to resolve an investigation into the company’s location-tracking practices, in what state officials are calling the largest such privacy ...

Google Maps and Waze are spearheading the mobile navigation software space, and every little bug they hit could be bad news for lots of drivers. Given both are owned by Google, most users out there ...

Google can still estimate your location even with GPS turned off, using Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, cellular towers, IP addresses and contextual logic.

Use of A-GPS technology would require location services to always be activated on smartphones with no option for users to ...

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