The company said location data will soon be saved directly on users’ devices, blocking Google from seeing it and, by extension, blocking law enforcement demanding that information.

On Friday, Google debuted a new product developed with OpenMined that allows any Python developer to process data with differential privacy. The two have been working on the project for a year ...

Specifically, Google should stop collecting “unnecessary customer location data” or “any non-aggregate location data about individual customers, whether in identifiable or anonymized form.

Location data, often obtained by law enforcement in criminal investigations to identify suspects, is an important part of Google's advertising business.

Google announced changes to the way it harvests your location data this week that will finally put a stop to its compliance with geofence warrants, a police surveillance technique that many say ...