Geolocation

L.A. Joins the Growing Battle Over Location Data

Los Angeles is taking the Weather Channel to court over its treatment of app users’ location data. Expect that to be one of many such lawsuits in 2019.

  • By Linda Poon, CityLab

Senators Call For FCC Investigation of Phone Companies Selling Location Data

Your telecom company knows where you are—and it may be selling that information.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild

New Facebook Patent Predicts Your Location Before You Get There

It's like location tracking...but in the future.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild

Your Google Data Could Pinpoint Where You Got Food Poisoning

Your search history reveals a lot.

  • By Jane C. Hu, Quartz

DHS Funds Airport Navigation App that Guides You from Check-in to Gate

It also allows federal agencies to send messages to passengers in real time.

  • By Jack Corrigan

How One Company Aims to Model the World—and All Its Activity—in the Cloud

Descartes Labs is building a platform to let the Pentagon analyze all the geospatial intelligence, all the time.

  • By Jack Corrigan

3 Ways Intelligence Agencies Are Using AI

The intelligence community is using artificial intelligence to help manage the exponential increase of data.

  • By Aaron Boyd

$600 Million Satellite Imagery Contract Shifts from One Intel Agency to Another

Management of the EnhancedView commercial satellite imagery contract shifted from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to the National Reconnaissance Office.

  • By Aaron Boyd