UK watchdog group Privacy International on Tuesday said while a few Android apps have stopped sharing data with Facebook, many haven’t. In December, Privacy International and German mobile security company Mobilsicher both published reports that many popular apps were automatically sharing user data with Facebook, even if those users don’t have Facebook accounts or were …

Prosecutors determined Tuesday that Uber won’t be held criminally liable for the death of a pedestrian in Arizona last March. One of the ride-hailing company’s autonomous vehicles struck Elaine Herzberg, 49, who later died from her injuries. “After a very thorough review of all the evidence presented, this Office has determined that there is no basis for criminal liability for …

One of the first rules that a person is taught when they start driving is to focus all their attention on the road and their surroundings. Now that 77 percent of people in the US have smartphones, “no distractions” has often come to mean “no smartphones.” But if you turn off or put your smartphone away while you are driving, …

There’s nothing quite like the panic of losing your phone. With an app for everything, we essentially operate our lives from the device. New data, however, shows that you’re likely a bigger threat to your phone than a thief. Prey, a company that provides anti-theft solutions for protecting mobile devices, released its 2018 Mobile Theft and Loss report on Tuesday. …

Google has temporarily disabled Google Photo sharing to Android TVs while it investigates a privacy bug. The issue, discovered by Twitter user Prashanth, let hundreds of users’ accounts be visible to other users, Android Police reported on Monday. On Tuesday Google confirmed it had shut down the feature while it looked into the problem.   “We take our users’ privacy extremely …

Samsung is teaming up with the Calm mindfulness app. The app’s maker said Monday that subscribers can now access Calm content through the Samsung Health platform. To set it up, tap the Mindfulness icon in your Samsung Health app. Follow the steps to sync your account or create a new Calm account. The integration makes for better ways to track …

 Google on Tuesday denied a report that work continues on Project Dragonfly, a censored search engine for China. “As we’ve said for many months, we have no plans to launch Search in China and there is no work being undertaken on such a project,” a Google spokesperson said in an email. “Team members have moved to new projects.” This comes …

Instagram accounts are no joke for some people. Social media accounts have essentially replaced scrapbooks or photo albums, and some influencers are paid to advertise products in posts. What would be incentive enough for someone to delete their Instagram pics? JetBlue Airways is offering a chance to win free flights for a year if you dump all your Instagram photos. …

The days of having to enter data manually are coming to an end. Microsoft’s newest feature for Excel, “Insert Data from Picture” has begun rolling out to users. The feature, first announced at the Ignite conference last September, lets you take a photo in the Excel app of table data with your phone. The information is automatically turned into an …

Google appears to have decided not to remove Absher, a Saudi Arabian government app that allows men to track women, from the Play Store.  Google reviewed the app and said it doesn’t violate the company’s terms and conditions. That comes from the office of Rep. Jackie Speier, a California Democrat who joined 13 other members of Congress in a letter …