You wake up in the morning and, first thing, you open your weather app. You close that pesky ad that opens first and check the forecast. You like your weather app, which shows hourly weather forecasts ...
Popular smartphone apps used to track people’s location and provide weather reports may hand over driving data to a firm that sells the information to insurance companies for the purposes of setting ...
Mobile applications are quietly attracting more and more malevolent attention — and for good reason. They contain a trove of private information about their users. In the iOS universe alone, 82.78%, ...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed a complaint against Sendit, an anonymous question app developed by Iconic Hearts that became extremely popular among teenagers. The agency claims that the ...
HOUSTON — The state of Texas is suing Allstate and its subsidiary Arity for allegedly collecting and selling drivers' location data without consent through hidden software in mobile apps, marking the ...
AI apps are all the rage in 2025, but a new study looked into exactly how much data they are collecting, and spoiler alert, it’s a lot. Since ChatGPT, every business under the sun has been jumping on ...
A recent study reveals the most data hungry apps 2025, showing social media giants like Meta’s Facebook and Instagram collect vast amounts of “linked” personal data (156 data points each). This ...
Peter Bajwa is the Director of Technology & Innovation at App-scoop Solutions Inc. and a thought leader in the healthtech space. In an era where smartphones have become extensions of our lives, mobile ...
The 2027 national census arguably the largest administrative and statistical exercise in the world will run from April 2026 ...