Speak in code, delete the chats: The tactics Venezuelans are using out of fear of phone checks

Venezuelans are circumventing the government’s expanded crackdown on dissent by speaking in code, not mentioning political leaders, constantly deleting content from their phones and refusing to ...
Bay News 9

Flood tracking app and number of users grow one year later

PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. — Oct. 9 marks exactly one year since Hurricane Milton hit the Tampa Bay area. Several coastal communities felt the impacts of the storm, but so did a lot of inland areas. Many ...
The Texas Observer

Texas Police Invested Millions in a Shadowy Phone-Tracking Software. They Won’t Say How They’ve Used It.

One sheriff who leads an anti-smuggling task force says the software helps “develop leads to eventually obtain probable cause ...
WOWT.com

Father rescues 15-year-old daughter by tracking her cell phone after she was kidnapped on Christmas Day, authorities say

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas. (KBTX/Gray News) - A father in Texas rescued his teen daughter by tracking her cell phone after she was allegedly kidnapped by a man on Christmas Day. According to the ...
AOL

Dad thwarts Christmas Day kidnapping with phone tracking, sheriff says

Texas sheriff's deputies credit a quick-thinking father and phone-tracking technology with saving a teenager from a violent kidnapping on Christmas. On the afternoon of Dec. 25, a 15-year-old girl ...
KHOU 11

MCSO: Teen girl forced into pickup at knifepoint, father found them by tracking her phone

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas — A 15-year-old girl who didn't return home after school was found miles away in a pickup truck after her father tracked her phone, according to the Montgomery County ...