Your iPhone might soon stop telling your wireless carrier exactly where you're standing, and law enforcement won't like it. Apple this week began rolling out a privacy feature that lets users blur their location data before it reaches cellular networks, limiting what carriers can see to just your general neighborhood instead of your precise street address. The move comes as phone companies face mounting scrutiny over how location data gets shared with authorities and targeted by hackers.
TikTok's new US joint venture has made changes to its privacy policy that include expanding the type of location data the company can collect from its 200 million American users. The new policy was published after investors closed a deal with TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance on Thursday to run the popular short-form video app's business in the US. The new joint venture said in its updated privacy terms that it may now "collect precise location data, depending on your settings"
