That strange battery drain or sudden data spike might not be a glitch. It could be a rogue app secretly tracking your location, habits, and more. These invasions are often subtle, but there are clear ...

Your smartphone is a super advanced data-collection machine, built with multiple, often invisible, ways to track and record ...

Rahul Naskar has years of experience writing news and features related to Android, phones, and apps. Outside the tech world, he follows global events and developments shaping the world of geopolitics.

LONDON (AP) — 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 ...

You know that little GPS icon that pops up when an app is using your location? That’s the polite part. The tip of the iceberg. The warm handshake before your phone whispers your every movement to Big ...

LONDON (AP) — 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 ...

Android has rolled out a new "unknown tracker alerts" setting so that you can detect any rogue AirTags following you around. With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and ...

Google has introduced a new "Google Location Sharing" toggle that is now integrated directly into the Android settings. This update eliminates the need to navigate through Google Maps to manage your ...

Do you ever feel like your Android device tracks you more often than it should? At this point, it's an open secret that smartphones track their users and use the data for personalizing ads, among ...

To turn off location tracking on Snapchat, you should turn on "Ghost Mode," which can be found in the app's settings.