In the wake of a report about App Store data collection by Apple, a suit has emerged alleging that the company is willfully violating user privacy and monetizing user data without permission.

From weather apps to social media, many services collect far more personal data than needed. Before downloading, users should check app listings in the Apple App Store or Google Play for details on ...

A class of nearly 100 million Google users claimed the tech giant secretly collected data even after they disabled data collection in their Google account privacy preferences.

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond wants to hire an outside law firm to investigate and prosecute Temu, a Chinese ...

Users want relevant ads but distrust data collection. New industry insights reveal how to balance both profitably.

Stop letting companies collect your data. Use these tips to keep your personal information safe. I review privacy tools like hardware security keys, password managers, private messaging apps and ...

Back in May of 2021, Google announced that privacy labels would be coming to the Google Play Store. Now, almost a year later, the company has announced that it will soon be rolling these labels out to ...

Apple Fellow Phil Schiller took the stand for the second day in a row in the Epic Games v. Apple trial, revealing details ranging from data collection to an influencer program for Apple Arcade. During ...

Google has removed three popular apps from the Google Play Store after it was discovered the apps violated laws surrounding data collection efforts on children. The apps in question, Princess Salon, ...

Washington Post technology columnist Geoffrey Fowler says smartphones and apps are harvesting our personal data — and that of our kids — on a scale that would shock most users. By the time a child is ...

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. Apps aren’t just a way to pass idle hours — ...