Facebook has all the photos you took at your girls’ weekend at the beach. That’s no surprise, because you posted them to your profile page. But Facebook has ways to get even more information about your getaway. The company isn’t just a social network. It’s an ad network too, and it follows you around on …

Every phone user has gone through some version of this: You see a pop-up from an app asking for your location information, but have no idea why. Perhaps you uneasily click “allow,” guessing that the app has good reason. Or you click “deny” and then wonder if the app will work correctly going forward. Now, Google is pushing app developers …

Google unveiled new Android Q features Tuesday that it says can caption home videos in real time, with no internet connection needed. It’s possible because Google’s speech recognition software requires less processing power, so it can run on your phone or tablet, Google said. That comes with an added privacy benefit. Instead of streaming audio from your device to Google’s …

It’s some of the most sensitive medical information a person could have. Records for potentially tens of thousands of patients seeking treatment at several addiction rehabilitation centers were exposed in an unsecured online database, an independent researcher revealed Friday. The 4.91 million records included patients’ names, as well as details of the treatments they received, according to Justin Paine, the …

Back in 1995, printing company Quad/Graphics didn’t let its employees in Saratoga, New York, access the internet. But that didn’t stop the workers from figuring out a way to get online during business hours. The employees dialed long distance — that was a thing back then — to a free dial-up internet service called Libraries Without Walls that was offered …

Apple customers have used Apple Pay for 10 billion transactions this year, Apple said it at its event Monday at the Steve Jobs Theater on its new campus, called Apple Park. CEO Tim Cook announced the number while promoting new Apple payment services. What’s more, 1 billion people downloaded games from App Store, and more than half a billion people …

In the not too distant future, you could walk into the international terminal of almost any US airport and board a plane without showing anyone your passport.  At the check-in counter, you’d pose in front of a camera that scans your face and sends your image to a remote system that matches it to a stored copy of your passport …

A new computing tool developed by Google will let developers build AI-powered apps that respect your privacy. Google on Wednesday released TensorFlow Federated, open-source software that incorporates federated learning, an AI training system. It works by using data that’s spread out across a lot of devices, such as smartphones and tablets, to teach itself new tricks. But rather than send …

Some apps may track your activity over time, even when you tell them to forget the past. And there’s nothing you can do about it. Roughly 17,000 Android apps collect identifying information that creates a permanent record of the activity on your device, according to research from the International Computer Science Institute that was shared with CNET. The data collection appears …

Most of you probably won’t admit to this unsafe behavior, but plenty of you say you would do it. This high-risk activity so many of you are eager to try: sharing your password. Seventy-one percent of people said they would consider sharing a password with a spouse or partner, according to a SurveyMonkey Audience poll shared exclusively with CNET and …