According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AI tools gather information about you from many types of devices, including smartphones. Prostock-Studio/Getty Images Like it or ...

Data Privacy Day exposes a harder truth: privacy erosion now happens legally, quietly, and at scale—long before accountability or restraint enter the conversation.

Connected cars are the new normal, but they often fail to respect your privacy, and their options to “opt out” are very limited. If you have purchased a new vehicle within the last five years, then ...

We count on antivirus software to keep our devices and personal data safe from cyber threats. But some of that software may be collecting data about you while it protects you. That’s the concern ...

AI apps are all the rage in 2025, but a new study looked into exactly how much data they are collecting, and spoiler alert, it’s a lot. Since ChatGPT, every business under the sun has been jumping on ...

Rain was falling steadily as the group huddled underneath umbrellas outside the Mark Twain Neighborhood Library in Long Beach in early March, equipped with their smartphones and a mission. Their goal: ...

More than half a decade ago, the nation’s top workplace civil rights enforcement agency began a high-level examination of how U.S. employers paid their employees, an experiment it said was intended to ...

Like it or not, artificial intelligence has become part of daily life. Many devices — including electric razors and toothbrushes — have become "AI-powered," using machine learning algorithms to track ...

Marshall Gunnell is a Tokyo-based tech journalist and editor with over a decade of experience covering IT, cybersecurity and data storage. Alongside CNET, his work has appeared in ZDNET, Business ...