The £15,000 wood chipper was among items stolen in a burglary at Poynders End Farm in Hitchwood Lane, near Preston, on the night of Saturday, March 3 – with someone smashing into a lock-up container and stealing chainsaws, leaf blowers and strimmers. The tracking device in the wood chipper meant police were able to locate…
Facebook says an overhaul of its privacy tools will make it easier for people to find and edit the personal information the company holds. Details of the changes were announced in a blog. They follow intense criticism of the firm after it emerged that data about 50 million users had been harvested and passed on to…
Many people realize that smartphones track their locations. But what if you actively turn off location services, haven’t used any apps, and haven’t even inserted a carrier SIM card? Even if you take all of those precautions, phones running Android software gather data about your location and send it back to Google when they’re connected…