Not sure what your phone is collecting about you? A new Android app is promising to simplify the privacy settings on your smartphone, and stop any unwanted data collection.

An analysis of 11,430 Play Store apps found that 14.2% used a privacy policy with contradicting statements about user data collection practices.

Facebook has responded to claims that it has been logging Android call and SMS data without consent. Facebook refutes the reports, saying it explicitly asks for permission before collecting the ...

Google said it will create a new safety section in its Play mobile-app store that will let Android smartphone users see what data developers collect about them and share, plus give access to ...

A popular keyboard app for Android offered conflicting statements about its data collection policies to its more than 200 million users. David Bisson reports.

The amount of users' data collected by Android devices must be quite concerning for its users. While Apple iOS collects just 10% of it.

Data collection practices in apps are increasingly becoming a major privacy issue for consumers. In July, a mobile security firm called Lookout identified a free wallpaper Android app, Jackeey ...

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) announced that Google was fined $60 million for misleading Australian Android users regarding the collection and use of their location ...

Google reportedly looking to limit data collection on Android This comes after Apple moved forward with its App Tracking Transparency rules ...