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 ...

Every day, we tap and swipe on our favorite apps without a second thought. But have we ever paused to consider what happens to our data in the process? From social media platforms to fitness trackers, ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

Whether you own the latest iPhone or one of the Android smartphones, there's a good chance you use more than a few apps daily. From checking the weather to keeping yourself entertained with a game, ...

Overview Companies collect data through user inputs, tracking tools, apps, and third-party sources.Businesses analyse data to ...

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 ...

The FBI warns that foreign-developed apps, particularly those tied to China, may collect personal data even if someone never ...

"There's an app for that" was a phrase plastered onto advertisements for the Apple iPhone starting in 2009. Only about a year old at that point, the App Store was changing people's relationship with ...

Every time you ask ChatGPT a question, say "Hey Siri" or let Google finish your sentence, something else may happen in the background. In many cases, you are helping train the AI that responds to you.

Washington and Europe are growing wary of DeepSeek. The Chinese artificial intelligence company astonished the world last weekend by rivaling the hit chatbot ChatGPT, seemingly at a fraction of the ...

It wasn’t exactly the recipe Oregon baseball had in mind. A spot start, a taxed bullpen and an opponent coming off its biggest win of the... Internet Tracking and Cookies: Your Personal Data Online.