After a few years of expanding privacy and security tools, the Android team is in refinement mode. Then again, when an operating system runs on more than 3 billion devices, little changes can have a ...

If you've got Android, you know it shows you a list of permissions an app wants you to accept during installation -- and often, it seems like the app wants permission to do an awful lot of things. Pew ...

Last week, Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance released a whitepaper calling for the federal government to pass laws mandating that Google, Apple, and any other smartphone vendor build deliberate ...