Privacy

Learn more about how Facebook uses your data—and better control what the platform knows about you.

As the saying goes, if the product is free, you are the product.

Each of the major carriers tracks its customers and uses the data to sell ads, but you can turn it off.

Hide sensitive photos and videos on your phone, and stop them from uploading to the cloud.

Let's restrict permissions for apps that don't need them, and stop them from sending your data back to the developers.

Text-based mental health apps like BetterHelp aren't as private as you might have hoped.

Short answer: Yes. But there might not be anything to worry about.

Twitter is taking steps to proactively curb harassment; here's how to take advantage (plus other ways to block those trolls).

Ask Google Street View (and its competitors) to blur your house from their photos.

Your browser has a keyboard shortcut to delete your recent internet history.

Google spies on your location by default, but you can fight back.

Between its data collection, third-party trackers, and public profile info, Spotify isn't as private as you think.

You can block all unknown calls on iOS and Android, and avoid missing important calls, too.

You can prevent users from sharing unwanted files or contacting you in Google Drive.

The global feed is finally gone, but the Venmo app has other privacy concerns users must contend with.

Just because the language sounds official doesn't make it a legit contract.

You can securely lock sensitive photos to keep you—or someone else—from stumbling upon them.

Despite the name, "Privacy Sandbox" lets Google and other companies track and sell user data.

Audacity 3.0 will start collecting limited personal data for sharing with law enforcement and third parties.