Russia is requiring dating app Tinder to hand over data on its users – including messages – to the national intelligence agencies, part of the country’s widening crackdown on internet freedoms.
Read moreThe D.C. Circuit on Tuesday struck down a government watchdog group’s lawsuit seeking to stop White House personnel from using secured messaging services to discuss official business.
Read moreSpyware crafted by a sophisticated group of Israeli hackers-for-hire took advantage of a flaw in the popular WhatsApp communications program to remotely hijack dozens of phones, the company said late Monday.
Read moreDrivers for ride-hailing giants Uber and Lyft are turning off their apps Wednesday to protest declining wages at a time when both companies are raking in billions of dollars from investors.
Read moreThe San Francisco County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to require most businesses to accept cash rather than debit or credit cards only.
Read moreHertz claims in a federal complaint that Accenture failed to deliver the website and mobile app that it was paid $32 million to design.
Read moreA class of smartphone users filed a class action in Illinois state court accusing mobile advertising network Kiip of secretly tracking their personal information and communications without consent even when a phone is not in use.
Read moreTwo days before New York City will force them to pay drivers a minimum wage, affiliates of the ride-hail companies Juno and Lyft brought lawsuits Wednesday to maintain the status quo.
Read moreA crime-reporting app for Bay Area Rapid Transit riders will now collect less intrusive information about users – and keep is collected for only a limited time – under a settlement approved by a federal judge Monday.
Read moreThe Los Angeles city attorney did a victory dance Friday in its lawsuit against IBM and The Weather Channel app, claiming a change in its terms of use acknowledges the app uses user locations both to provide the weather and tailor advertising and “confirms why we sued in the first place.”
Read moreA new phone app from a group of researchers at the University of Washington will monitor vital signs and can detect when a person overdoses on opioid drugs, according to a new study published in Science Translational Medicine on Wednesday.
Read moreLos Angeles’ city attorney sued The Weather Channel on Thursday, claiming it fraudulently and deceptively uses its Weather Channel App “to amass its users’ private, personal geolocation data,” not, as advertised — “to provide them with ‘personalized local weather data’”— but to monetize the information by selling it to third parties.
Read moreA smartphone app launched Thursday by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is the first publicly available app in the nation that can alert residents if a major earthquake has struck, potentially granting precious seconds for people to evacuate and prepare.
Read moreThe Supreme Court appeared sympathetic Monday to a group of iPhone owners who accuse Apple of monopolizing the market for apps on its ubiquitous smartphones.
Read moreA federal judge on Monday tentatively advanced claims by car-sharing app Turo that Los Angeles misclassifies it as a rental car company and charges “unconstitutional” fees for connecting drivers at Los Angeles International Airport.
Read moreInvestors are asking a South Florida judge to freeze mobile-app developer Stocket’s account and appoint a corporate monitor in the wake of a purported FBI raid on the company’s offices.
Read moreNew Mexico’s attorney general filed a federal lawsuit claiming the maker of a children’s gaming app sends kids’ location, demographic and other personal information to advertisers without parental consent, risking their safety and violating their privacy.
Read moreFiling suit Tuesday against Match Group, 10 people who were on the ground floor of Tinder in 2012 say the dating app giant schemed to cheat them out of their stock options.
Read moreLithuanian authorities are “strongly” urging consumers, especially public servants, not to install the app of a popular Russian taxi-booking service because it may unlawfully be collecting user data.
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