The New York Times published an article recently titled “Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret” which provides an insight into how much data is collected by smart devices.
An app currently available on the Google Play Store allows users to report incidents of religious “heresy” to the Muslim-majority Indonesian government.
According to recently published internal documents, Facebook executives predicted a public backlash over an update to the company’s Android app which would send call and text data to Facebook.
Andy Rubin, the Google executive who was responsible for the Android operating system and was accused of sexually assaulting a Google employee, was quoted in an article by the New York Times as telling his ex-wife “you are my property, and I can loan you to other people.”
Nearly 90 percent of apps analyzed in a report sent data directly back to Google, while 42 percent of apps also sent data to Facebook.
Google will reportedly soon be charging phone manufacturers to pre-load Google apps such as Gmail, YouTube and Google Maps on their devices for the E.U. market.
The Justice Department is considering a probe into potential anti-competitive behavior with their Android OS product.
Tech giant Google has admitted to changing Android phone settings remotely without user permission, a move considered by experts to be bad for “transparency and consent.”
Google informed GunBroker on September 3 that its mobile app would be blocked from the app store Google Play.
“Hundreds” of apps for Google’s Android platform failed to disclose third-party analytics and advertising services within them, which collected personal user information, according to a report.
Google’s Android phones collect almost ten times more data about users than the Apple iPhone, according to a report.
Google is reportedly tracking your physical movements with your smartphone even if you select privacy settings which are supposed to stop it from doing so.
The European Union has fined Google $5 billion for “denying rivals a chance to innovate” through its Android operating system.
Hollywood star Will Smith released a corky video this week of him on a romantic date with “Sophia,” a humanoid robot that was granted citizenship in Saudi Arabia last year.
Facebook’s Android app has been collecting data on its users’ phone calls and texts outside of the platform, prompting privacy concerns from consumers who didn’t know just how far Facebook’s data collection efforts really go.
Even when disconnected or in airplane mode, phones powered by Google’s Android operating system still track your every move.
A stealthy cryptocurrency miner hijacks Android phone processors and then pushes the devices to their literal breaking point.
Tech leaders are beginning to worry that Silicon Valley’s new political correctness is stifling innovation.
Uber, Tinder, Snapchat, Twitter, and other top apps have allegedly been secretly tracking users, according to a report.
Apple and Google are set to introduce a new series of “gender-neutral” face emojis in an update.
Elon Musk is trying to raise $100 million to launch a manufacturer of nice cyborgs that do not become Terminators.
More than 500 Android apps were found to secretly contain spyware, resulting in their removal from the Google Play store, according to a report.
Twitter and Amazon’s massive earnings disappointments Thursday shocked Wall Street and bashed the tech indexes that have been hitting incredible all-time-highs over the last month.
Jeff Bezos is less than $4 billion shy of passing Bill Gates as the richest man in the history of planet Earth.
A report claims that ultrasonic audio in advertisements is being used to activate user tracking features on Android apps.
A report from mobile defense specialists Skycure has identified that 71 percent of Android users have security patches that are at least two months out of date, leaving them at risk of data breaches and malware.
Tech innovation is set to move from the Age of Obama, which focused on the needs of high-density urban residents, to the Age of Trump, which will focus on the needs of lower-density suburban residents.
Black Friday online purchases jumped 21.6 percent to $3.34 billion for the first time in U.S. retail history, spurred by over $1 billion from mobile sales, according to Adobe.
Cybersecurity firm Kryptowire claims that many Android phones are loaded with a backdoor that is transferring data, call logs, and text messages to China.
Texas-based election integrity organization True the Vote is calling into question whether Los Angeles County election officials are properly training poll workers to follow voter identification standards.
With weak iPhone sales causing Apple to suffer its first full-year revenue and profit declines since 2001, several analysts are downgrading Apple and upgrading the potential for Google’s new Pixel smartphone line.
Texas-based election integrity organization True the Vote has released a smartphone app that allows users to report voter fraud and irregularities.
With Samsung cancelling the Galaxy Note 7 after a continuing series of random spontaneous combustions, Apple iPhone 7 Plus and Google’s Pixel XL seem best positioned to battle it out for the 8 million sales opportunities.
A hidden feature buried deep in the architecture of both Apple and Android phones is secretly keeping a record of every place you visit.
JAFFA, Israel – An adviser to the Grand Mufti of Egypt warned against the availability of the Islamic State’s propaganda radio network one week after the terrorist group launched an Android application to access the online radio stream. The Mufti’s adviser, Ibrahim Nijem,
A video game that depicts the gory events from the day when Taliban terrorists massacred more than 130 children inside a Pakistani school has been pulled weeks after it was released as part of an army-backed peace and tolerance campaign.
The FTC is apparently concerned that Google may be unfairly promoting its search engine on their popular Android mobile operating system.
It’s been compared to the huge “Heartbleed” bug that panicked the Internet last year. It could prove to be an even worse problem than Heartbleed was, because while devising and distributing fixes for that problem was hardly an easy task, it wasn’t as difficult as updating the operating system on some 950 million cell phones from various providers.
Just below Rawalpindi, Pakistan near the Soan River on Google maps, Friday Team Android discovered an image of the iconic Android “bot” urinating on an image of the iconic Apple logo.
Google thought it had agreed last year with European competition regulators that the company’s 90% dominance of Internet searches was “not an illegal business.” But new European Union antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager sought to put Google in chains on Wednesday by accusing the company of abusing its dominance in web searches to the detriment of competitors.