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 ...

Most AI platforms use your conversations to train their systems by default. Learn how to turn off data collection on ChatGPT, Google, Alexa and Siri.

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 ...

The FBI warns that foreign-developed apps, particularly those tied to China, may collect personal data even if someone never ...

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 ...

A month ago, I’ve talked about using computers to hack on our day-to-day existence, specifically, augmenting my sense of time (or rather, lack thereof). Collecting data has been super helpful – and it ...

More than half a decade ago, the nation’s top workplace civil rights enforcement agency began a high-level examination of how U.S. employers paid their employees, an experiment it said was intended to ...

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 ...