The FBI warns that foreign-developed apps, particularly those tied to China, may collect personal data even if someone never ...

The FBI issued an alert warning that some foreign-developed apps may collect and store user data overseas, raising privacy ...

Accepting a simple invite prompt inside an app can expose your friends' names, phone numbers, and home addresses to overseas ...

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, ...

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 ...

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’ ...

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 ...

A recent cyberattack exposed the sensitive personal data of thousands of women who used the Tea Dating Advice app to discuss and review men they date. A few days later, a California jury found that ...

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

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 ...

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, ...