Your mobile phone is 10 times dirtier than a toilet seat. Here’s what to do about it.
Some US law enforcement agencies are using a commercial app that tracks people all day long via their phones – without a court order or oversight.
Mobile apps are sometimes ‘regionalized’ to better serve the needs of users, functioning differently in, for example, China than in Canada. But some of those differences pose security and privacy risks.
The idea seems to make sense: if the system can predict your intended word before you type it, this should save you time. But that’s not necessarily the case.
The ubiquity of mobile phones is a defining feature of the 21st century, but it's been possible to place a phone call on the go since shortly after World War II.
Dutch mobile operator KPN was warned in 2010 that Huawei could snoop on millions of its customers' calls.
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