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 new report has found the most data-hungry fitness apps. The report lists where each of the top 16 apps fall.

Apple has become the target of another class action lawsuit over privacy, one claiming the iPhone maker has conducted "systemic violations" of wiretapping, privacy, and consumer fraud laws. Filed on ...

Washington and Europe are growing wary of DeepSeek. The Chinese artificial intelligence company astonished the world last weekend by rivaling the hit chatbot ChatGPT, seemingly at a fraction of the ...

The report claims Temu’s data collection goes far beyond what’s needed for normal app functionality. It accuses Temu of employing tactics commonly used in malware, like self-recompiling code and ...

The United States’ recent regulatory action against the Chinese-owned social video platform TikTok prompted mass migration to another Chinese app, the social platform “Rednote.” Now, a generative ...

In the past decade, Apple has positioned itself as a privacy-first company. It has butted heads with law enforcement for encrypting people’s phones, messages, and FaceTime calls, and battled Facebook ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Bajarin covers the tech industry’s impact on PC and CE markets. In my column last week, I wrote about one purpose that is ...

Pranay Parab is an independent tech journalist based in Mumbai, India. He covers tech for Lifehacker, and specializes in tutorials and in-depth features. There's a dichotomy between what Apple says ...

The insurance company collects telematics information from drivers with its Drivewise app, but says customers are comfortable trading information for enhanced safety. Allstate Insurance Co. developed ...

In a move to strengthen personal data protection, China's top internet regulator has drafted new rules governing how mobile applications collect and use personal information and is now seeking public ...