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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, ...

Privacy Please is an ongoing series exploring the ways privacy is violated in the modern world, and what can be done about it. Buried deep in their settings are ...

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Tea app, which went viral for its concept of a ‘safe place’ for women to talk about men, faced a massive data breach Tea app, which went viral for its concept of a ‘safe place’ for women to talk about ...

Life360, an app that enables family members to share their location with one another, sells its user data to "approximately a dozen data brokers who have sold data to virtually anyone who wants to buy ...

Apple warns iPhone users to stop using Google Chrome. “Unlike Chrome,” it says, “Safari truly helps protect your privacy.” ...

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is currently testing a new Aadhaar app that aims to reduce the amount of ...