Default privacy settings in popular mobile apps seem like a convenience, allowing you to use a single setting to control the level of privacy—who can see which actions you take—across all of the app’s ...

Windows uses all sorts of tricks to pinpoint your location. If you don't want your location being tracked, you must disable ...

Windows 11 quietly ships with a location tracking feature that can follow your laptop or tablet wherever it goes, even if you never remember turning it on. Buried behind a few layers of menus, this ...

Default privacy settings in popular mobile apps seem like a convenience, allowing you to use a single setting to control the level of privacy -- who can see which actions you take -- across all of the ...

Miami University provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. Default privacy settings in popular mobile apps seem like a convenience, allowing you to use a single setting to control the level ...

Adam Benjamin has helped people navigate complex problems for the past decade. The former digital services editor for Reviews.com, Adam now leads CNET's services and software team and contributes to ...

Apple’s latest iPhone software update toggled on a “creepy-sounding setting” — and users are urging others to turn it off. The default setting, dubbed “Discoverable by Others,” is leading iPhone users ...

Gmail’s most controversial new trick is not a flashy AI assistant or a redesigned inbox, it is a quiet default that lets the service scan your messages to power smarter tools and, crucially, to help ...

Unforseen hurdles aside, Substack has become a fairly popular platform for people looking to publish (and get paid for) subscription-based newsletters — as well as people who are interested in said ...