Here you will find all the articles with the tag: location data.
The tech giant has agreed to pay $391.5 million to 40 US states. This week, Google agreed to settle the largest-ever privacy lawsuit in history, agreeing to pay over 390 million dollars in a suit that was brought by attorneys general (AGs) in 40 US states. Ellen Rosenblum, the AG for the State o... Read more
1 year ago
Microsoft announces the preview of the new Azure Maps Creator tool. With Creator, companies can create their own custom maps of indoor locations such as factories or office buildings. Azure Maps Creator is part of Microsoft's Azure Maps suite of location services. Azure Maps provides access to T... Read more
4 years ago
According to sources from The Washington Post, major tech companies are in talks with the US government to use location data to stop the spread of the corona virus COVID-19. Such measures would have clear benefits in terms of controlling the spread of the virus, but at the same time would set a ... Read more
4 years ago
Tableau Software has made Tableau 2019.2 available. The new version of the data visualization software extends its background mapping technology with vector maps. This allows more detailed location information to be highlighted and analyzed based on background layers with more contextual information... Read more
5 years ago
Google has announced that it will make it possible to have the location history and the web and app activities of users automatically removed to a certain time limit. This data could also be deleted earlier, but users had to do this manually. By studying the location history and the web and app act... Read more
5 years ago
IBM plans to add a new feature to its Weather Channel app. It should make use of the many sensors on the smartphones of users of the app, in order to be able to provide very local weather forecasts. The timing of this plan is striking: at the moment, IBM is dealing with an indictment that revolves a... Read more
5 years ago
The city of Los Angeles is suing IBM's Weather Channel branch. The city believes that the company has misled consumers about how it uses information about their location. The company would not resell the data, but would use it in other ways than by informing consumers. That's what Bloomberg reports ... Read more
5 years ago
