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.

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, ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Do you know where your data is going? Do you know where your data is going? You’ve no doubt allowed dozens (or ...

E-commerce platform Shopify denies it suffered a data breach after a threat actor began selling customer data they claim was stolen from the company's network. "Shopify systems have not experienced a ...

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.

Using dating apps to find love can already be a daunting process. Now, security researchers in Belgium have found that dozens of these apps may threaten users' privacy too, by leaking their sensitive ...