If you're worried about Android apps tracking your location in the background, Google is taking action to put your mind at rest and stop it from happening unless there's a very good reason. In a ...

Background location tracking costs data only when the data is transmitted to the company's servers. Some of the top Google apps on Android send location data to the company's servers to provide ...

Until now, granting Facebook your location data on Android was an all-or-nothing deal: you either had to prevent Facebook from seeing your location at all, or you had to grant it full use of your ...

A growing number of smartphone apps are tracking your location — even when they're not being used. Here's how to turn them off.

Facebook has rolled out a new update to its Android app, giving users more control over their privacy settings. Now they can stop the app from tracking their location, even when they're not using it.

Google is placing new restrictions on which Android apps can track your location in the background. From August 3rd all new apps that ask for access will need to pass review, with all existing ...

Alongside the launch of the Android 11 Developer Preview, Google announced a plan to crack down on Android apps that request the user's location in the background. Just as we saw with Google's ...

If you use Facebook for Android and had your location history setting turned on, tracking will remain on by default -- though you should receive a notification alerting you of the new privacy option.