This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. If you’re wondering which California geographical feature the latest Mac operating system is named after, the answer is MacOS Mojave. This ends “a four-year mountain bender,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, at the …

John Condelles III installed two Facebook apps on the Android phone he bought in 2016. Now he’s suing the social network for its alleged collection of information on calls and text messages on all Android phones with a Facebook app installed. Filed in federal court in California, the lawsuit seeks to hold Facebook liable for allegedly violating the privacy of …

When installing a new app, you have to click “accept” to give the program access to your location, camera and microphone. That unlocks a lot of potential in your apps, but it also opens up the question of when exactly those apps are collecting your data.  Until now, it’s been hard to know the answer on phones use the Android …

Google’s mobile operating system already tries to predict which app you’ll want to use next. It’s next update, Android P, will move on to “predicting the next action you want to take,” said Dave Burke, Google’s VP of engineering for Android. You’ll experience this in a variety of ways as you’re using a phone that runs Android P, Burke said. …

Martin Lewis, founder of UK consumer information site MoneySavingExpert.com, wants Facebook to do more to prevent advertisers from claiming he endorses their products. That’s why he’s suing the social network for defamation, he said in a statement Monday. “Enough is enough,” Lewis said. “I’ve been fighting for over a year to stop Facebook letting scammers use my name and face …

What if more privacy was the law?  The European Union has already made it so with its General Data Protection Regulation, which gives users the ability to request information on who has their data, as well as the right to ask for copies or have it deleted. Until recently, however, the law appeared likely to have only limited benefits for …

Facebook introduced a new data policy and terms of service on Wednesday that aim to better explain the information it gathers on you, but the company says it isn’t collecting anything new.  “These updates are about making things clearer,” wrote Erin Egan, Facebook’s chief privacy officer, and Ashley Beringer, deputy general counsel in a blog post about the updates. “We’re not …

Although Apple just released iOS 11.3 to the public on Thursday, it’s already got the ball rolling on the next update to its operating system for iPhones and iPads — iOS 11.4.  On Monday, the company sent the newest update to software developers, who will serve as early testers of the software. According to 9to5Mac, iOS 11.4 developers will be …

Customer information was up for grabs on the Panera Bread website for at least eight months, according to a report from cybersecurity writer Brian Krebs.  A flaw in the website meant that anyone who knew where to look could find customer names, email addresses, birthdays and the last four digits of payment cards, as well as phone numbers and physical …

These days, you may wish you had a magic switch you could flip to keep your data more secure. The misuse of Facebook user data by Cambridge Analytica is only the latest consumer privacy flap to create outrage. Remember the Equifax hack? That affected more than 230 million people. And in 2017, US lawmakers reversed Obama-era rules that forbade your …