Apps you sign up for to find the best price for gas, or keep track of your family’s safety, could be tracking something else and selling location and motion data to insurance companies. “The quotes I ...

Privacy activists and Western governments have long warned that TikTok users run the risk of having their data harvested by ...

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, ...

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 ...

More consumers are willing to dump apps that collect private data yet admit that they can’t tell which are doing so More consumers say that they are increasingly leery of third parties using and ...

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 ...

Pranay Parab is an independent tech journalist based in Mumbai, India. He covers tech for Lifehacker, and specializes in tutorials and in-depth features. There's a dichotomy between what Apple says ...

Your Mac collects a lot of usage data to improve macOS and Apple's own apps. Quite a bit of that data is collected by default, and it's good to be aware of it. Apple is quite good at declaring how and ...

Regulations on Collection and Use of Personal Information of Internet Applications, was released for public feedback last ...