President Trump’s branded cell phone maker and cell provider said the exposure was linked to a third-party platform and was ...

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Apple now lets you limit location sharing with your mobile carrier if your device and provider support this service. Here's ...

Virgin Media O2 also recently reported that scammers are planting fake customer-service numbers online for AI chatbots to ...

People report that their personal contact info was surfaced by Google AI—and there’s apparently no easy way to prevent it.

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ESET found 28 CallPhantom scam apps on Google Play that promised fake call logs and had reached more than 7.3 million ...

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Zach McCoy hadn’t done anything wrong. But when Google sent him a cryptic, legalistic email in early 2020 notifying him that the police were demanding access to some of his data, he was alarmed. “I ...

Security researchers have uncovered two separate spying campaigns that are abusing well-known weaknesses in the global telecoms infrastructure to track people’s locations. The researchers say these ...

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