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Lilburn police are investigating the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old man. Police said they were called out to a man's home on Hillcrest Drive on Saturday night. A group of friends said they were going to pick up a girl who lived in the area to go ice skating around 10 p.m. when their GPS system sent them to the wrong home.

Australian police are warning the public that errors in Apple's much-maligned mapping application are leading drivers headed to the southern city of Mildura to take a potentially "life-threatening" wrong turn into the middle of a remote state park.

An interstate drug trafficker hauling a motorhome filled with marijuana isn’t the most sympathetic defendant. But a federal court’s declaration that Melvin Skinner pretty much should’ve known his pre-paid cellphone could be tracked via GPS — and therefore cops didn’t require a warrant to track him — has repercussions that privacy advocates say deserve your attention.

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that putting a tracking device on a suspect’s car violated his rights, although they differed on why.

TomTom has apologized for selling user data from personal navigation devices to police.

A 63-year-old Oklahoma woman narrowly escaped injury when her car became stuck on train tracks after following incorrect GPS directions, police say.