WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group that includes former leaders of the FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration on Wednesday called for limits on law enforcement’s use of GPS and other powerful technologies to track the movements of suspects. Police should be ...

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The government cannot use the GPS in a suspect’s cell phone to find him and serve an arrest warrant unless it can show that he is a fugitive, a federal magistrate in Baltimore has held. The 139-page opinion by Magistrate ...

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NEW YORK — Twitter says it has bought TweetDeck, a London-based startup that helps people read, write and organize the short messages posted on the online network. Twitter is not giving financial terms, though published reports have pegged the price ...

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Privacy is certainly a hot topic in Congress these days. However, as fast as bills are introduced to address the potential harm from ubiquitous gathering of personal information (five this year so far), new and seemingly more insidious methods of ...

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WASHINGTON — A Senate panel is questioning executives from Apple and Google about why iPhones and handheld wireless devices running Google’s Android software store location data that can be used to track where their owners have been. The Senate Judiciary ...

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