Major phone carriers track your personal data and some sell it for targeted advertising. Here's how to protect your data. Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast ...

A tool called DROP lets California residents fill out a few forms to keep their personal data from being tracked or sold by ...

After the Roe v. Wade draft opinion leak, social media users started telling people to delete their period-tracking app data in case it could be used to prosecute ...

Not that something like this should really come as a surprise anymore, but chances are that Google and, to a lesser extent, Facebook are either accessing or able to access a flow of data about you ...

They make footballs at the Wilson factory in Ada, Ohio. And since 2017 they've been making them a little differently for the NFL. A regulation-sized football weighs 400 grams (please, spare us your ...

Katie Siek receives funding from the National Science Foundation. She is affiliated with the Computer Research Association and the Computing Community Consortium. Alexander L. Hayes and Zaidat Ibrahim ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. A little over a month ago, I got back into a familiar routine, one I’ve drifted in and out of for well over a decade: I started hyperfocusing on my ...

As the self-quantification movement matures, users are expanding beyond physical tracking to assess how they think, decide, ...

Your phone knows where you are standing or sitting at this moment. Most people know that. How else could you use GPS? While location tracking is essential for directions, it also helps big tech sell ...

The Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP) is a free, state-run tool that allows Californians to stop more than 500 data ...