Researchers are now doubling up on information and public knowledge to let people understand how much Apple's iOS and other applications gather or collect User Data on one's iPhone or iPad. The study ...

is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a decade. Apple is making good on its promise to provide more transparency around iOS app ...

A day after Facebook was dinged for shady iOS distribution techniques of its data-collecting research app, Google was discovered using the same methods for its own app. Google has found itself in hot ...

Apple is set to crack down on apps that utilize fingerprinting, a controversial method used to follow users across many apps and websites, to improve user privacy and curb tracking practices.

Facebook is facing the wrath of Apple today for misusing an enterprise certificate meant for internal use to get Facebook users to sideload a data harvesting "Facebook Research" app that violates App ...

A study conducted by a professor of computer science at Trinity College Dublin found that a typical Android handset collects some 20 times more data about its user than a comparable iPhone. Data ...

Apple has published new information about the diagnostic capabilities of iOS, in what appears to be a response to suggestions that it includes a ‘backdoor’ that could enable governments and other ...

This post has been updated to report objections researcher Doug Leith had to Google’s critique of his research. Whether you have an iPhone or an Android device, it’s continuously sending data ...