If you have an Android phone or tablet, Google will email you soon - if it hasn’t already - to say your device will automatically beam its location anonymously to strangers’ compatible gadgets nearby.

Increasingly, health care organizations are tracking not only external access to their networks, but also users inside the network. At a recent IT seminar in Boston, health security leaders said that ...

It’s been announced that Tile will be supporting a new satellite-based tracker network starting next year as it tries to beat existing phone-based networks, including Android’s new Find My Device ...

Will Google ever launch its “Find My” network? The Android ecosystem was supposed to have its own version of Apple’s AirTags by now. Google has had a crowd-sourced device-tracking network sitting ...

The new Hubble BLE Finding Network is a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) finding network built specifically for enterprise use. Hubble, based in Seattle, is a satellite startup enabling Bluetooth devices to ...

All but the smallest civilian drones would have to broadcast radio tracking data, under a sweeping proposal unveiled Thursday by U.S. regulators seeking to ensure greater safety and prevent terrorism.

Apple recently launched the latest version of its operating system, iOS 14.5, which features the much-anticipated app tracking transparency function, bolstering the tech giant’s privacy credentials.

If you’ve been a network administrator for very long, you’ve probably had to deal with a situation where you had to track down a problem user or machine. Here’s how that might have gone: A situation ...

A company that makes a license plate reader announces a national network for law enforcement to follow car movements. It's already in more than 700 cities. Alfred Ng Senior Reporter / CNET News Alfred ...