If you’ve ever found yourself wondering why an app is requesting microphone access when there doesn’t seem to be any logical reason why it should need to snoop on the sounds from your surroundings, ...

A cybersecurity firm says a popular Android screen recording app that racked up tens of thousands of downloads on Google’s app store subsequently began spying on its users, including by stealing ...

Music-recognizing app Shazam retains access to the Mac's microphone, keeping it in a constant on state, even when Shazam has been turned off. The potentially worrisome feature was discovered by ...

Nuance Communications (NUAN) has made some big-time improvements to its popular Dragon NaturallySpeaking voice recognition software, including improved performance on Gmail and Hotmail and a new ...

That's not the only dodgy snooping attempt it'll reveal either WORRIED that an app is secretly listening to you through your microphone? Chances are that you’re probably not being spied on – but there ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Phone apps ask for permission to see a lot ...

If you’re encountering the error message The sample rate for your microphone isn’t supported whenever you open the Xbox App and try to create a party, then you ...

There's a special scanner that you can set up so you iPhone will show you a list of every time any app tunes into your microphone. Of course your iPhone will show an orange dot at the top of the ...