You might use these apps every day, but have no idea what they collect. These 20 apps are quietly harvesting your location, ...

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, ...

More consumers are willing to dump apps that collect private data yet admit that they can’t tell which are doing so More consumers say that they are increasingly leery of third parties using and ...

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 ...

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 ...

iPhone apps including Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, and X/Twitter are skirting Apple’s privacy rules to collect user data through notifications, according to tests by security researchers at Mysk Inc., ...

Data collection is taking place on popular apps used by kids, according to a report published by Common Sense Media, a nonprofit research organization. The "2023 ...

Instagram and Facebook rank first, collecting the most sensitive info like physical address, device, and user ID.

Automakers can collect and share mountains of information now that cars, trucks and SUVs have become more connected. 13 Investigates reviewed privacy policies from 14 car manufacturers and found ...

New York regulators launched a probe after a 2019 Wall Street Journal article. New York regulators said in a new report that Facebook did little to enforce a policy that prevents it from collecting ...

These days we hand out so many pieces of information about ourselves, we often don’t think about what companies know about us. But a story about a new workaround for King Soopers digital coupons ...

Meta Platforms has been hit with a new privacy lawsuit for allegedly collecting location data about Facebook users via tracking software embedded in “thousands” of mobile apps. “Through the use of its ...