Sharing your Chromebook with friends and family might seem like a scary situation. Whether you want to keep a birthday surprise hidden from a nosy relative or ensure your precious work files remain ...

Google will destroy the private browsing history of millions of people who used "incognito" mode in its Chrome browser as a part of a settlement filed to federal court on Monday in a case over the ...

The Android operating system has a built-in Data Saver mode; enabling this helps avoid going over the data limit induced by your carrier. But you may not need to worry about this if you're on an ...

To settle a class-action dispute over Chrome’s “Incognito” mode, Google has agreed to delete billions of data records reflecting users’ private browsing activities. In a statement provided to Ars, ...

Google is adding an optional Android 16 feature to disable USB data access when the phone is locked for enhanced security. This protects against attackers from using USB devices to extract data or ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has banned the data broker X-Mode Social from sharing or selling users’ sensitive location data, the federal regulator said Tuesday. The first of its kind settlement ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...