Background activity can drain your battery and use your mobile data without you seeing it happen. Apps refresh in the background to keep content updated, which helps you pick up where you left off.

Abstract: Extracting API patterns from the source code has been extensively employed to detect API misuses. However, recent studies manually provide pattern templates as prerequisites, requiring prior ...

Apple on Thursday introduced a new set of App Review Guidelines for developers, which now specifically state that apps must disclose and obtain users’ permission before sharing personal data with ...

Android backups currently support saving app data, but without per-app options. Google now appears to be working on individual toggles, letting you back up or exclude specific apps. The list sorts ...

School leaders can use data as a compass to guide the decision-making process so that students and teachers have a clear path to success. When I first became a school leader, I thought one place where ...

Data Formulator enables users to iterate with AI to create rich data visualizations. Users define their visualization goals using blended user interface interactions and natural language inputs, while ...

An app for anonymously reporting individuals accused of speaking ill against conservative activist Charlie Kirk leaked personal data about its users. The app, known as “Cancel the Hate,” was taken ...

The tech company lost a massive privacy case involving the Flo app that has raised huge questions about how health apps are secretly being used. For more than 10 years Tyler has used his experience in ...

A federal jury found on Friday that Meta violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act, the state’s wiretap law, by collecting data from a period-tracker app ...

A data breach of the Tea app recently exposed users' selfies, IDs, and private messages. The breach shows the risk of giving out your sensitive information to new apps. Cybersecurity experts say ...

The data breach at the Tea app, used to review men anonymously, was bigger than initially reported. Direct messages, which included sensitive topics, were accessed by a security researcher. A Tea ...

The app "Tea," designed for women to anonymously post comments about men they have dated, has suffered a data breach, leaking tens of thousands of user images in what appears to be a targeted effort ...