From weather apps to social media, many services collect far more personal data than needed. Before downloading, users should check app listings in the Apple App Store or Google Play for details on ...

If you’re currently using a weather app, it’s time for a privacy check. Open the app’s page in the App Store or Play Store, ...

Post 1Your favorite apps may be doing more than helping you — they may also be leaking your personal data.An Oxford study found that 90% of Google Play apps contain third-party trackers, quietly ...

Whether you own the latest iPhone or one of the Android smartphones, there's a good chance you use more than a few apps daily. From checking the weather to keeping yourself entertained with a game, ...

In an era of increasing digitalization, our personal data is routinely processed by a plethora of applications. This trend ...

Privacy regulations and user expectations have fundamentally changed the mobile advertising landscape, creating both challenges and opportunities for app ...

Phone apps do a lot of heavy lifting, like helping us stay connected, entertained, and organized. But not all apps are as ...

A class of nearly 100 million Google users claimed the tech giant secretly collected data even after they disabled data ...

Two investigations warn about how data collected through menstrual tracking apps can be used by governments to monitor people ...

On the cusp of Halloween, a new tradition is gaining attention in the ed-tech space: the Scary Apps list, compiled each October by the nonprofit EdTech Leaders Alliance (ETLA) to warn educators and ...

Temu—the Chinese shopping app that has rapidly grown so popular in the US that even Amazon is reportedly trying to copy it—is "dangerous malware" that's secretly monetizing a broad swath of ...