Pretty much every app on the market collects some data about its users, and personal finance apps are no exception. That’s why there are so many services to help you maintain your digital privacy and ...

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 ...

You wake up in the morning and, first thing, you open your weather app. You close that pesky ad that opens first and check the forecast. You like your weather app, which shows hourly weather forecasts ...

Data collected by AI tools may initially reside with a company that you trust, but can easily be sold and given to a company that you don’t trust. As an assistant professor of cybersecurity at West ...

Americans' personal data could be collected and stored overseas — even if they've never downloaded a foreign-developed app themselves — according to a new FBI alert warning about the risks tied to ...

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 ...

Discover how demographic data, including age, race, education, gender, and more, can enhance marketing strategies and help businesses plan for consumer trends.

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 ...