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Google announces its plans for the Privacy Sandbox, a new system that plans to allow publishers to show relevant ads with jeopardizing user privacy.

After researchers found 7 apps that allow people to track your location, SMS and call history, Google pulled them from the Play Store.

Microsoft is testing a new tracking prevention feature on its new Edge browser that helps users keep their data safe from sneaky tracking scripts on websites.

After web activity data, Google now lets you delete your location history data every 3 or 18 months as it looks to give users more control over their privacy.

Apple and Google are both terrible in their own ways. But while one has the upper hand when it comes to marketing privacy, that won't help it win this war.

Almost a year after GDPR went into effect, Microsoft is calling for the US to have its own privacy framework that works with GDPR.

Thanks to mounting fears of Big Tech’s privacy invasions, the world is about to change. And Microsoft is poised to ride this wave to great success.

After pulling apps that mirror functionality to Screen TIme, Apple is facing backlash but says these products were abusing business features.

While it appreciates Apple’s stance on privacy, Mozilla is calling on the firm to make a change that would improve customer privacy even further.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg promises major privacy reform for its services as it looks to focus on end-to-end encryption.

Facebook lets anyone look up your account using the phone number you use for 2FA to protect your account.

Facebook now lets you stop its Android app from tracking your location when the app is not in use.

Apple releases new iOS update to fix FaceTime bug that allowed users to listen to the recipient's phone before they even picked up the call.

With the understanding that both of these things are mostly theater, only one really resonates with all of its customers.

Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Spotify get themselves into Facebook's next big privacy controversy.

Another one? Yes. Facebook reveals new security bug affected 6.8 million users.

Hackers gained access to 50 million Facebook accounts due to a security flaw.

Skype's end-to-end encrypted Private Conversations are now rolling out to all users across platforms.

Google finds itself in another privacy-related controversy.

Facebook says a recent bug automatically unblocked random users from the block lists of 800,000 users in June.

Google completely revamps Google Account on Android to offer increased transparency, data control, and security.

Most of the privacy reporting these days is focused on Google and Facebook because these firms maximize their earnings by knowing more about you.

Given the recent events making headlines, Microsoft has the opportunity to take advantage of the increased sensitivity of consumers to data privacy, but will they capitalize on it?

A data mining firm stole data of 50 million Facebook users to manipulate voter behavior, but is it really Facebook's fault?

Microsoft gives users more control over their typing and inking data, tests new design for privacy settings.

Modern Android phones have been tracking users' location using nearby cell towers without their consent, but Google says the data was never stored on its servers.