If you're a smartphone user, it's no secret that many of your daily apps collect personal data. But have you ever wondered which apps top the list when it comes to gathering the most information—and ...

Marshall Gunnell is a Tokyo-based tech journalist and editor with over a decade of experience covering IT, cybersecurity and data storage. Alongside CNET, his work has appeared in ZDNET, Business ...

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 ...

Many of the smartphone apps we use daily collect a disturbingly large amount of information about us, but there are some ways ...

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, ...

Many popular apps collect far more personal data than they need to work. These 20 apps quietly gather your photos, location, ...

iPhone apps including Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, and X/Twitter are skirting Apple’s privacy rules to collect user data through notifications, according to tests by security researchers at Mysk Inc., ...

According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after ...