Smartphone users who leave app permissions set to “always” are feeding a steady stream of location coordinates to data brokers, some of which the Federal Trade Commission has already moved to shut ...

Smartphone owners who granted “always allow” location access to a weather widget or prayer-time app may have unknowingly fed their precise coordinates to a commercial data broker that sold the ...

I have eight years of experience covering Android, with a focus on apps, features, and platform updates. I love looking at even the minute changes in apps and software updates that most people would ...

Alongside new scam protection updates, Google announced a separate set of privacy and theft protection upgrades for Android at the Android Show I/O Edition today. From finer control over which apps ...

When an app accesses your location, it’s not always to help you. Apps often collect this data in the background and share it with third parties. This can include advertisers, data brokers, or other ...

Our phones know where we are and they know where we have been—the problem is they have a nasty habit of sharing that information with others. And the latest location tracking nightmare to hit phone ...