Parents, that app your kid just downloaded may know more about him than you realize. Dozens of mobile apps for children are collecting and sharing...

By Tarmo Virki (Reuters) - Some advertising networks have over the last year started to secretly collect app users' contacts or whereab...

A few months back, it was revealed that several major iPhone apps, including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, were sending users' data to their server...

The recent revelations that some iPhone and Android apps are uploading and storing users' phone address books without permission not only violates the privacy of the person using the phone but, potentially, everyone in that person's address book.

By Gerry Shih SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Under pressure from U.S. legislators, Apple Inc moved Wednesday to quell a swelling privacy con...

* Apple installs new rules for developers * U.S. legislators request information about Apple privacy policies By Gerry ...

Following a heated row over smartphone location tracking that culminated in Apple and Google representatives appearing before a Senate Judiciary panel...

WASHINGTON -- Online radio service Pandora has received a subpoena from a federal grand jury investigating whether popular smartphone applications sha...

Few devices know more personal details about people than the smartphones in their pockets: phone numbers, current location, often the owner's real nam...