I had my children join Life360 so I could track their whereabouts, but they started tracking me too. Whenever I was at the store, they would know and send me a list of things they needed. By tracking ...

CoMaps is community-driven, open-source, transparent, and the developers aren't concerned with making a profit. The app is fairly new (just hitting Google Play Store and the Apple App Store around ...

Dear Meghan: I am a divorced father of two teenage boys. They are good kids, and I respect their privacy; I don’t track them ...

There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who enjoy tracking what they do with their time all day, and the rest of us, who’d rather watch paint dry. I used to be in the latter group...until I ...

Last week, Microsoft announced that it would build something called “Tracking Protection” into the next edition of its Internet Explorer Web browser (IE9). Although Microsoft’s proposal got a lot of ...

DEAR AMY: My husband and I each got an iPhone recently. We each downloaded the “Find My Friend” app. Ever since then, he has been tracking me when I go out, saying that he is “testing” the app. I know ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. Republished on February 8th with new analysis into Google’s tracking ...

Protecting user's data from websites' tracking comes at the cost of advertising revenue. If you are a consumer, you probably cheered Apple's move to allow users to alert any company they digitally ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. That’s what we heard, too: When you sent an email using this $30-a-month invite-only app, it automatically ...

I'm not a super fit person. I am considered a healthy weight, and I exercise simply because I enjoy eating and drinking whatever I want. For my type A personality, fitness and health tracking has been ...

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