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A hack of location data company Gravy Analytics has revealed which apps are—knowingly or not—being used to collect your information behind the scenes. Some of the world’s most popular apps are likely ...

Many popular apps collect more of your personal data than necessary to function properly. These 20 apps quietly scoop up your ...

The tech company lost a massive privacy case involving the Flo app that has raised huge questions about how health apps are secretly being used. For more than 10 years Tyler has used his experience in ...

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 ...

You might not think twice about that flashlight app you downloaded or the cute game your grandkids recommended. Yet with a single tap, your private data could travel ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

A dating app for women to do background checks on men – and share information about potential bad actors – said it has been hacked, exposing tens of thousands of photos and other personal information.

A security vulnerability in a pair of phone-monitoring apps is exposing the personal data of millions of people who have the apps unwittingly installed on their devices, according to a security ...

The Tea app data breach has grown into an even larger leak, with the stolen data now shared on hacking forums and a second database discovered that allegedly contains 1.1 million private messages ...

Apps you sign up for to find the best price for gas, or keep track of your family’s safety, could be tracking something else and selling location and motion data to insurance companies. “The quotes I ...