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 this system setting.

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 ...

Windows 11 hides a surprisingly powerful privacy switch in a place most people never think to look, and leaving it at the default can quietly expose more about your habits than you realize. I’ve spent ...

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 ...