Richard Nieva was a senior reporter for CNET News, focusing on Google and Yahoo. He previously worked for PandoDaily and Fortune Magazine, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, on ...

If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. More than 40 Democratic members of Congress called on Google to stop collecting and retaining customer location ...

Google is rolling out significant changes to its Maps Timeline feature, which tracks your location history. As part of this update, you will soon receive notifications that your Timeline data will be ...

Google is making a big change to how it stores Location History data on Android and iOS. Instead of that data being stored in the cloud, Google will be locally saving Location History to your device ...

Google is settling California’s claims that it tracked the locations of users without their consent. Google is settling California’s claims that it tracked the locations of users without their consent ...

Evidence of satellite location-sharing in Find Hub is spotted Google had previously promised the feature was on the way It seems you'll be able to share your location via pings every 15 minutes Google ...

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson is suing Google in an effort to change how the company handles users’ personal data. Ferguson joined attorneys general in Texas, Indiana and the District of ...

With the launch of the Pixel 10 series, both Find Hub and Google Maps now support satellite-based live location sharing. Pixel 10 users can send their live location even without cellular coverage, ...

But with the Google Maps location data from Android smartphones, something else is possible: You can see at a glance where you have been particularly often and where you rarely go. This is made ...