When signed in to your Google account, your searches, clicked links, images, and videos are tracked. Things like your IP address, device, and which ads you click are tracked even when you're not ...

Google's apps, such as Chrome, Maps, Search, and YouTube, are constantly tracking your activity and sending it to Google. But don't worry, Google doesn't use the data for nefarious purposes like ...

CoMaps is community-driven, open-source, transparent, and the developers aren't concerned with making a profit. The app is fairly new (just hitting Google Play Store and the Apple App Store around ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. When users “cannot clear” unique tracking identifiers and “cannot ...

If I offered you an alternative to conventional tracking cookies on the web, you might be interested, especially if you care about digital privacy. If I told you it was made by Google, the biggest ...

Privacy is getting harder to protect in a world where everything is connected. Whether you're chatting with an AI, checking your email or using your smartphone, your ...

Google will pay $1.4 billion to Texas to settle a lawsuit claiming the company collected users' data without permission, according to state Attorney General Ken Paxton. Paxton said the settlement ...

A federal jury has ordered Google to pay $425.7 million for improperly snooping on people's smartphones during a nearly decade-long period of intrusions. The verdict reached Wednesday in San Francisco ...