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Your iPhone holds a detailed map of your life—from messages and photos to financial data and location history. Protecting that information is more important than ever as mobile privacy threats ...

Privacy is personal, so you shouldn’t treat the settings I listed here as a checklist. Treat them as suggestions. Your tolerance for data collection and the ...

There is a simple way to make ChatGPT a lot more effective: Change the default settings. Just a few tweaks can help make your conversations much smoother and more focused—and protect your privacy, too ...

Anthropic has updated its Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy, introducing data usage choices for users and extending data retention to enhance AI model development ...

You can see all of the locations your iPhone thinks are significant and turn off the location features in Settings. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac If you’re uncomfortable with social media apps ...

Your smartphone might be your closest companion, tracking your steps, saving your passwords, and remembering your favorite takeout. But how much do you know about how ...

If a hacker gained access to your Microsoft account, they could download your OneDrive files, bypass your Windows PC’s security, and potentially even track your laptop’s location using GPS. But ...

How to check if Meta has had access to your camera roll. Credit: Silas Stein/picture alliance via Getty Images Some Meta users still have questions and anxiety about which photos Meta can access on ...