It also argued that Google misled parents by allowing the apps to remain in the children's section of its store and failed to act swiftly when researchers contacted the company with concerns that thousands of apps might be improperly tracking children.
Other problems with location data leakage are covered extensively, from improperly tracking user locations by Uber to the LocationSmart cell phone dilemma.
The first round I covered, back in the late 1980s, resulted in American being fined a then-record $1 million by the FAA for improperly pressuring mechanics to take shortcuts and for improperly tracking repairs to the point that it was not possible to determine if some critical repairs were done right, or at all.
Further, it has been suggested that the NHIA's calculations for the active membership (i.e., the portion of registered members with up-to-date premium payments and card renewals) overestimate active membership by improperly tracking membership identification cards.
On Tuesday, the Air Force acknowledged that the mortuary had lost a dead soldier's ankle and an unidentified body part recovered from an air crash; had sawed off a Marine's arm so his body would fit in his casket; and had improperly stored and tracked other remains.
Tangentially, the American Civil Liberties Union and other advocacy groups argue that the immigration courts' recent "rocket docket" process improperly fast-tracks deportations of unaccompanied minors who surged across the border in the summer.
More recently, those questioning the agreement, which is subject to a court review, have raised concerns about whether it is fair to authors, whether it protects the privacy of people whose reading habits might be tracked and whether Google is being improperly given what amounts to exclusive rights to commercialize millions of out-of-print books.
While they acknowledged that the surveillance tracked the communications that the scientists had with Congressional officials, journalists and others, they said it was never intended to impede those communications, but only to determine whether information was being improperly shared.
In addition, money from some accounts was improperly commingled and cash flows were difficult to track.
The end result is that every camera will effectively become a robot with situational awareness, capable of tracking and classifying every object in its vicinity, from a waving hand or smiling face to stress on a beam or an improperly parked vehicle.
