Google wants to make it as easy to scrub an app account as it is to create one. The company has announced that Android apps on the Play Store will soon have to let you delete an account and its data ...

Many of the smartphone apps we use daily collect a disturbingly large amount of information about us, but there are some ways ...

Google agreed to pay $135 million to settle an Android data collection lawsuit, potentially delivering payments to millions of users this year. The settlement covers allegations that Google programmed ...

In a landmark verdict last week, a California jury ordered Google to pay $314 million after finding that the tech giant had misled Android users, covertly collecting personal data in the background, ...

The lawsuit charged that Google was collecting data even when its users were not actually using their phones. The data collection in the background occurred secretly without any apparent consent of ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. App archiving will help save storage space by offloading unused apps while keeping user data intact. Archiving an app ...