A look at how stores can use their apps on your phone to access shopping habits. — -- Shopping apps let you buy fast on your phone and offer discounts and rewards when you shop in-store. But for ...

Our phones know where we are and they know where we have been—the problem is they have a nasty habit of sharing that information with others. And the latest location tracking nightmare to hit ...

News broke last week that a company has been tracking millions of smartphone users over long periods of time without any opt-in permission or notification, potentially violating state and federal ...

Do you ever feel like your apps are constantly spying on you, knowing where you live and what you are doing? You're not alone — and that's because they probably are. Apps have collected so much data; ...

LONDON — Smartphones are useful tools for everyday life, but they’re privy to nearly everything about you, including all the places you’ve been — if you let them. When you use a map app to find the ...

You likely have never heard of Babel Street or Location X, but chances are good that they know a lot about you and anyone else you know who keeps a phone nearby around the clock. Reston, ...

To prevent Microsoft and other apps from tracking your whereabouts, you can turn off location tracking on your Windows 11 PC. You can do this for all services or specific ones, and I’ll show you ...