In many ways, the era of the smartphone is defined by apps, which do everything from sending messages to tracking our exercise. New research shows how Apple iOS apps come with substantial costs to ...

Would you be concerned if perfect strangers could track who you speak with most frequently, where you are and what you’re doing? If you have an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, you're probably already ...

A new study has been released by Jamf, which specializes in Apple Enterprise Management. It outlines the use of iOS app permissions and the information that app developers are trying to collect.

Thanks to Facebook, app permissions have popped back into the public’s consciousness again. Last month it was discovered that Facebook had stored the phone logs of Android users who opted sharing ...

Pokémon Go players won't have to worry about sketchy app permissions for much longer. The developer of the game has acknowledged that it "erroneously" requested full access permission to users' Google ...

Editor’s Note: Brenden Mulligan is a co-founder and designer at Cluster, a web and mobile app which enables users to create private social networks around interests and experiences. Brenden previously ...

A rogue iOS application can gain access to limited geo-location information by obtaining image permissions and extracting GPS coordinates from locally-stored photos. Fastlane Tools (now part of Google ...

Every time you install an application onto your phone, you're asked to allow that app certain permissions: to use your camera, track your location, view your contacts, and more. While some of these ...

Android Marshmallow finally lets you control app access to personal data and services, but not as easily as iOS does There’s not a lot new in Android 6.0 Marshmallow, which is now slowly making its ...

Before we get started, users should know the three different location permission settings an app can have on iOS: Never: Pretty self-explanatory, the app in question won’t be able to access your ...

An iOS 14 feature that has gone a bit under the radar is the Precise Location toggle for Location Services. This new toggle gives the user more control over which apps can access your current location ...