The number of apps that collect detailed personal data might surprise you. That includes some of the top apps on the App Store and Google Play Store. What I love doing most as the CyberGuy is making a ...

Pretty much every app on the market collects some data about its users, and personal finance apps are no exception. That’s why there are so many services to help you maintain your digital privacy and ...

Every day, we tap and swipe on our favorite apps without a second thought. But have we ever paused to consider what happens to our data in the process? From social media platforms to fitness trackers, ...

AI apps are all the rage in 2025, but a new study looked into exactly how much data they are collecting, and spoiler alert, it’s a lot. Since ChatGPT, every business under the sun has been jumping on ...

iPhone apps including Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, and X/Twitter are skirting Apple’s privacy rules to collect user data through notifications, according to tests by security researchers at Mysk Inc., ...

Before Kim Slingerland downloaded the "Fun Kid Racing" app for her then-5-year-old son, Shane, she checked to make sure it was in the family section of the Google Play store and rated as ...

If you have a smartphone and spend any time on the internet, it's likely that at least some of your personal data has been collected, shared, and sold at some point. Many apps you use every day are ...

iPhone apps are scooping up your data via push notifications, according to a new report. Credit: Getty Images Push notifications are being exploited to invasively collect user data once again, ...

If something is free, you’re the product being sold. This is especially true for most online services we use. For example, Google’s primary source of revenue is ads. They make money by collecting data ...

Why would an airline want to know your ethnicity? Or look at the photos on your phone? How about access to your microphone? How about the permission to send text messages on your behalf? Cybernews ...

Washington and Europe are growing wary of DeepSeek. The Chinese artificial intelligence company astonished the world last weekend by rivaling the hit chatbot ChatGPT, seemingly at a fraction of the ...

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