Apple often promotes the App Store as a secure place to download apps. The company highlights strict reviews and a closed system as key protections for iPhone users. That reputation now faces serious ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many apps and social media platforms collect detailed information about you as you use them, and sometimes even when you're not ...

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, ...

Some of the most popular smartphone apps have been downloaded by hundreds of millions of people. But experts have warned that some of these seemingly harmless apps are in fact requesting ‘shocking’ ...

A security lapse at dating app Raw publicly exposed the personal data and private location data of its users, TechCrunch has found. The exposed data included users’ display names, dates of birth, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about privacy including AI, privtech, data justice and law. Femtech apps aim to empower users by helping them gain ...

You download an app, tap "allow," and move on. It feels routine. But according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, that simple step may open the door to far more ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

Americans’ personal data could be collected and stored overseas — even if they’ve never downloaded a foreign-developed app ...

Kenya’s Data Protection Act, 2019, provides legal guidelines on how collected data should be handled when the data controller ...