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Chinese regulators issued rules to app developers on Monday spelling out what counts as non-consensual personal data collection. Why it matters: The rules…

Millions of people downloaded an app with a similar name. If you accidentally tapped the wrong one, you were spied on from Abu Dhabi.A popular messaging app is…

Security Researcher discovered a leak within the dating app Plenty of Fish of the data that users had specially set as “private” on their profiles. The leaked…

Twitter says it has patched a vulnerability inside its Android app that could have potentially let malicious actors view information of private accounts and…

Google has rushed out a fix for a bug in the Android version of Chrome that left some app users unable to access accounts or retrieve stored data. The problem…

Bytedance’s short-video app TikTok, along with its Chinese version Douyin, is projected to be the fourth most-downloaded non-gaming app in 2019, surpassing…

Chinese tech companies including social media giant Tencent have been ordered by regulators to clean up how their apps handle user information or face…

A cybersecurity firm discovered a flaw in WhatsApp group chats that could allow malicious parties to crash the app for everyone in the group, simply by…

A major flaw with WhatsApp has been discovered that allows people to wreak havoc in group chats and crash the messaging app for all members. Researchers at…

French startup Yubo has raised a $12.3 million funding round led by Iris Capital and Idinvest Partners. Existing investors Alven, Sweet Capital and Village…