Security News This Week: Android Tracks Your Location Even When You Ask It Not To

Published: Nov. 28, 2017, 7:59 a.m.

As you emerge from your turkey-induced coma, take a moment to reflect on the past week in security, which despite the holiday was chock-full of wonderments. From Uber shadiness to Android location-tracking, it was quite the whirlwind. Uber made headlines midweek when it came out that the company had not only been breached a year ago\u2014coughing up the personal info of 57 million users\u2014but paid the hackers $100,000 to keep it quiet.