The administration is working with tech companies to make sharing information with various providers easier. Experts raised concerns about privacy and security.
President Trump on Wednesday at the White House with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., left, and Mehmet Oz, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The same data networks that enable phone apps and web surfing help drones navigate, so officials are imposing daily, patchwork shutdowns. The actions can be very disruptive to daily life.
In St. Petersburg, Russia. In a country where smartphones provide the only online access for millions of people, it is a big disruption when mobile networks go dark.
Secret meetings and private holidays of the royal family and prime minister were inadvertently made public on Strava, which has raised security concerns in other instances.
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson of Sweden with his wife, Birgitta Ed, in 2024. Fitness data from bodyguards gave away the location of his private residence, a newspaper report found.