The news that Facebook’s Android app has been collecting call and text histories is yet another black eye for the social media giant. But just why was Facebook able to siphon off records of who its ...

Google has announced a new Play Store policy meant to prevent intrusive Android apps from collecting call log and SMS information from users' devices. According to Google, only an app that has been ...

An upcoming policy change will make it much more difficult for Android apps to access your call logs and SMS data. In the future, only apps which you set as your default dialer or SMS client will be ...

Android 16 is expected to expand digital protection beyond Android 15's theft detection features with a new Advanced Protection mode. Code strings in a Google Play Services beta hint at a new ...

The apps gather information such as location, even after owners explicitly say no. Google says a fix won’t come until Android Q. Alfred Ng Senior Reporter / CNET News Alfred Ng was a senior reporter ...

A majority of Indians use Android phones. So the permissions requested by the app on Android have drawn more attention.

There are a lot of applications on the Google Play Store that sync your phone’s data over the air. There are apps that sync your SMS, your contacts, and other phone files and make them easily ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...