You can delete your Google Maps history through your Google account's Settings page, using a computer or the mobile app.

The author allowed her parents to see her whereabouts by installing a tracker on her phone. It helped her feel safe.

You can track AirTags attached to your personal items through the Find My app, which comes preinstalled on all iPhones and iPads.

Microsoft Family Safety is a parental control app that lets you manage your kids' screen time and app usage, among other features.

Apple and Google have banned X-Mode, a major data broker, from collecting location from users whose mobile devices run iOS and Android, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The tech giants told developers they must remove X-Mode’s tracking software or risk being cut off from their app stores – and […]

You can stop Google from tracking your computer by going to your Google Account page and turning off Web & App Activity and Location Services. Google tracks your activity and location on any device when you’re signed into Google. If you force Google to stop tracking you, you’ll lose Google’s […]

You can stop Google from tracking your Android device by disabling Google’s “Location History” option, or by disabling specific apps. Google tracks your Android’s location at all times by default, and uses that information to give you traffic information, browsing recommendations, and more. Turning off location tracking may cause certain […]

You can stop Google from tracking your iPhone by disabling the “Location History” setting. Google apps that you download onto your iPhone track your location to give you real-time traffic information, location tags for your photos, and other features. Many iPhone apps also have their own location settings, which you […]

Arizona sued Google in May, accusing it of deceiving users about privacy settings and collecting their location data even after they opted out. In a less redacted version of the lawsuit released last week and first reported by the Arizona Mirror, Google’s own engineers said the company “confuses users” and […]

To turn off location tracking on Snapchat, you should turn on “Ghost Mode.” Ghost Mode in Snapchat will hide your location on the map, so contacts won’t be able to see where you are. You can also turn off location tracking through your iPhone or Android device’s settings, where you […]

Of the 10 biggest COVID-19 hotspots across the US right now – excluding prisons – seven are linked to meat processing plants. New phone location data show that people – potentially including workers and truckers carrying shipments – moved from one meatpacking factory in Indiana to 48 states and Canada […]

The New York Times was able to track the movements of President Donald Trump using mobile phone data. The Times said it used leaked phone data to track the movements of someone in his entourage, believed to be a Secret Service agent, as well as found the agent’s name and […]

Apple keeps a detailed, itemized list of every location you’ve been with your iPhone. The feature is found deep inside your iPhone’s settings, where you can find specific addresses of places you’ve gone, how often you visit them, and when you visited them. Here’s how you can delete the history […]

Figuring out how to see your Google location history is easy to do in the Google Maps app. When you use Google Maps for navigation, the app stores all your destinations and the routes you took to get there. You can browse your Google Maps travel history and even see […]

Some smartphone apps could be collecting data on your location more than 14,000 times a day, according to a new report in The New York Times. This location data is sometimes anonymized and sold to companies for purposes like targeted advertising, but it is often so exact that The Times […]

An Associated Press investigation recently discovered that Google still collects its users’ location data even if they have their Location History turned off. After the report was published, Google quietly updated its help page to describe how location settings work. Previously, the page said “with Location History off, the places […]

A recent report revealed that even when the ‘location history’ setting is turned off, Google will continue to track and save your location. Solutions arose that included turning off a feature called ‘web and app activity,’ which, when coupled with turning off the ‘location history’ feature, completely disabled Google’s location […]