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.

Gmail accounts can be deleted permanently through Google’s account settings. Backing up important data before deletion is strongly recommended. Once deleted, the account and its data cannot be ...

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Google must pay $425 million to the plaintiffs of a class action lawsuit that accused the company of collecting users' data even after they've turned off a tracking feature, a federal jury has decided ...

FILE - A man walks past Google's offices in London's Kings Cross area, on Aug. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Brian Melley, File) SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A jury found Wednesday that Google violated users’ privacy ...

Every day, we tap and swipe on our favorite apps without a second thought. But have we ever paused to consider what happens to our data in the process? From social media platforms to fitness trackers, ...

Hackers posed as Salesforce IT staff, using vishing to trick employees into installing malicious software for data theft and extortion. A hacking group known as ShinyHunters has been linked to a ...

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 federal jury found on Friday that Meta violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act, the state's wiretap law, by collecting data from a period-tracker app ...

A women's dating safety app that promised privacy is now facing backlash after two back-to-back breaches exposed deeply personal data, from selfies to sensitive conversations. A viral dating safety ...

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