Category Archives: Tracking

Supreme Court rules on GPS tracking, but punts on larger issues

By doris | Published: January 24, 2012

Full Story at RedTape.msnbc.msn.com Monday’s Supreme Court ruling invalidating a conviction based on evidence gained by GPS tracking of a suspect’s car might seem like a victory for privacy advocates. But on the critical issues of privacy and Fourth Amendment rights, the majority of the court actually punted. The unanimous opinion issued Monday morning is [...]

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Google Analytics adds free real-time website tracking

By doris | Published: September 30, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Google Analytics, a widely used tracking tool for website operators, got a major upgrade Thursday with the company’s first real-time traffic tracker. Google’s free analytics tool offers a fairly comprehensive dive into the traffic patterns of sites on which it’s installed — but until now, it had [...]

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Who’ll get hit by a falling satellite?

By doris | Published: September 10, 2011

Full Story at cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com Sometime in the next few weeks, NASA expects a refrigerator-sized hunk of a satellite to fall to Earth. But will it hit someone? Not likely. NASA says there’s a 1-in-3,200 chance that any pieces of the satellite will hit anyone. In fact, there’s a good chance no one will see it [...]

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Smartphones, tablets can be a port in the storm

By doris | Published: August 28, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com One item that millions will have with them in almost any situation is their smartphone. As Hurricane Irene approaches, that’s important because a smartphone or tablet computer can come in handy during the storm — if you’ve made some advance preparations. There are a host of apps for tracking weather, getting [...]

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Google Holds Out Against ‘Do Not Track’ Flag

By doris | Published: April 18, 2011

Full Story at Wired.com And then there was Chrome. Apple made it clear this week that the next version of its Safari browser — which will ship with the upcoming version of Mac OS — will include the ability for users to tell websites not to track them, by using what’s known as the ‘Do [...]

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It’s Tracking Your Every Move and You May Not Even Know

By doris | Published: March 26, 2011

Full Story at NYTimes.com But as a German Green party politician, Malte Spitz, recently learned, we are already continually being tracked whether we volunteer to be or not. Cellphone companies do not typically divulge how much information they collect, so Mr. Spitz went to court to find out exactly what his cellphone company, Deutsche Telekom, [...]

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