Background activity can drain your battery and use your mobile data without you seeing it happen. Apps refresh in the background to keep content updated, which helps you pick up where you left off.

Social media users are misrepresenting footage from ongoing debates on a Canadian border-security bill as proof that the country's refugee-entry system has eliminated face-to-face screening in favor ...

Apple on Thursday introduced a new set of App Review Guidelines for developers, which now specifically state that apps must disclose and obtain users’ permission before sharing personal data with ...

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 ...

Android backups currently support saving app data, but without per-app options. Google now appears to be working on individual toggles, letting you back up or exclude specific apps. The list sorts ...

Days before the introduction of extra red tape for British visitors to the European Union, officials are predicting hold-ups at airports. Yet an app that would allow travellers to pre-register for the ...

A new app offering to record your phone calls and pay you for the audio so it can sell the data to AI companies is, unbelievably, the No. 2 app in Apple’s U.S. App Store’s Social Networking section.

A new study reveals that Instagram and Facebook are the apps that collect the most user data. This is based on an assessment conducted by the website QR Code Generator, which analysed the privacy ...

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 ...

A data breach of the Tea app recently exposed users' selfies, IDs, and private messages. The breach shows the risk of giving out your sensitive information to new apps. Cybersecurity experts say ...

Those are a few of the findings in a recent survey of 500 U.S. professionals whose jobs either partially or entirely involve entering data from printed matter, PDFs, spreadsheets, or reports into ...

The recent data hack targeting an app for sharing information about nefarious men is a reminder that the impulse to protect frequently comes at a cost. By Gina Cherelus In the Third Wheel column, Gina ...