Background activity can drain your battery and use your mobile data without you seeing it happen. Apps refresh in the background to keep content updated, which helps you pick up where you left off.

Apple on Thursday introduced a new set of App Review Guidelines for developers, which now specifically state that apps must disclose and obtain users’ permission before sharing personal data with ...

Android backups currently support saving app data, but without per-app options. Google now appears to be working on individual toggles, letting you back up or exclude specific apps. The list sorts ...

Remember Tea, the dating safety app that leaked private chats and photo IDs in July? Months later, Apple has removed the iPhone app from the App Store. The storm around Tea began to brew over the ...

Moderator Kathleen Koch (left) led a conversation with Wes Schroll, Fetch; Shyam Venugopal, PepsiCo; and Nicole West, Chipotle. BY Fast Company Custom Studio Companies across industries are announcing ...

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The tech company lost a massive privacy case involving the Flo app that has raised huge questions about how health apps are secretly being used. For more than 10 years Tyler has used his experience in ...

A federal jury found on Friday that Meta violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act, the state’s wiretap law, by collecting data from a period-tracker app ...

A data breach of the Tea app recently exposed users' selfies, IDs, and private messages. The breach shows the risk of giving out your sensitive information to new apps. Cybersecurity experts say ...

The recent data hack targeting an app for sharing information about nefarious men is a reminder that the impulse to protect frequently comes at a cost. By Gina Cherelus In the Third Wheel column, Gina ...

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