Pretty much every app on the market collects some data about its users, and personal finance apps are no exception. That’s why there are so many services to help you maintain your digital privacy and ...

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, ...

Cybersecurity firm and VPN provider Surfshark has conducted a study of popular taxi and ride-hailing apps to ascertain how much data each app collects. The company is ...

You wake up in the morning and, first thing, you open your weather app. You close that pesky ad that opens first and check the forecast. You like your weather app, which shows hourly weather forecasts ...

A change to TikTok’s U.S. privacy policy on Wednesday introduced a new section that says the social video app “may collect biometric identifiers and biometric information” from its users’ content.

Many popular apps collect far more personal data than they need to work. These 20 apps quietly gather your photos, location, contacts, and more—and you probably have at least one of them installed ...

You wake up in the morning and, first thing, you open your weather app. You close that pesky ad that opens first and check the forecast. You like your weather app, which shows hourly weather forecasts ...

I review privacy tools like hardware security keys, password managers, private messaging apps, and ad-blocking software. I also report on online scams and offer advice to families and individuals ...

AI apps are all the rage in 2025, but a new study looked into exactly how much data they are collecting, and spoiler alert, it’s a lot. Since ChatGPT, every business under the sun has been jumping on ...

Apple recently launched iOS 16.3, which includes a fix for a privacy bug in Apple Maps. The bug enabled apps to collect user location data without consent, causing concern among privacy advocates, ...