Default privacy settings in popular mobile apps seem like a convenience, allowing you to use a single setting to control the level of privacy—who can see which actions you take—across all of the app’s ...

Windows 11 quietly ships with a location tracking feature that can follow your laptop or tablet wherever it goes, even if you never remember turning it on. Buried behind a few layers of menus, this ...

Apple’s latest iPhone software update toggled on a “creepy-sounding setting” — and users are urging others to turn it off. The default setting, dubbed “Discoverable by Others,” is leading iPhone users ...

Default privacy settings in popular mobile apps seem like a convenience, allowing you to use a single setting to control the level of privacy -- who can see which actions you take -- across all of the ...

T-Mobile has quietly activated two new default privacy toggles, including one that allows sharing your financial data with affiliates and non-affiliates. Users should ...

WhatsApp is turning the security dial up to its highest setting, introducing a lockdown-style mode aimed at people who face ...

Adam Benjamin has helped people navigate complex problems for the past decade. The former digital services editor for Reviews.com, Adam now leads CNET's services and software team and contributes to ...

Miami University provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. Default privacy settings in popular mobile apps seem like a convenience, allowing you to use a single setting to control the level ...