ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (WHAT THE TECH?) — Smartphones and apps have become a major part of our daily lives but we may be giving them more permissions than we realize. Most of us don’t pay a lot of ...

Once you grant permission to an app, Bouncer quietly revokes it after you're done setting up or using an app. The next time you open that app, you can allow the permission again if needed. Every time ...

The Android app category on the Chromebook platform has come a long way since the early days of Chrome OS. Not only are more apps than ever supported. But users can also manage each app just like on ...

Are you having difficulty remembering which apps you have given to certain permissions on your iOS device? Rather than checking them individually, you can reset them all at once and then give access ...

App Permissions usually pop up the first time you open a recently downloaded application on your phone. Such feature is designed in accordance to every end-user’s privacy and security when using a ...

An automated Google warning to Android app developers regarding mobile app permissions has cut the number of requests in half. Overzealous Android apps that needlessly ask for permissions to handset ...

Google has removed yet another batch of awful Android apps from the Google Play Store for breaking the company’s terms of service. The roundup includes 101 apps ...

With the addition of the developer-generated Data safety section this year, Google Play removed the old list of app permissions. The Play Store is now reversing this decision in response to user ...

Did you accidentally give an app a permission on your Mac you didn’t mean to, or maybe just want to check what kind of access various software has across macOS? Follow along for how to check which ...

After a few years of expanding privacy and security tools, the Android team is in refinement mode. Then again, when an operating system runs on more than 3 billion devices, little changes can have a ...

Since permissions were added to Android as a platform, the Google Play Store has shown a list of all potential permissions that an app could use before installing that app. Now, the Play Store has ...