Back in Android 12, Google added some flexibility to Android’s location permission by allowing users to only give apps access to their “approximate” location. It’s a great idea, but one that’s ruined ...

Google is testing a new approximate location option for Chrome’s Android app. Unlike Android’s system-level location controls for apps, the new option should give users more granular control over the ...

I discovered apps with unnecessary location access—and fixed it in just a few minutes.

Google has announced this week plans to crack down on Android apps that abuse the OS permissions system and request access to user geo-location data when the app is not in use. Starting with May, the ...

Android 12 was launched to AOSP earlier this month, and it arrived to Pixel phones quite recently. That being said, it brought some changes that we talked about at length on the site. There are a ...

It’s hard to keep your location and other personal data private when you’re carrying a smartphone around all day. Even if you’re aware of the privacy concerns that come along with smartphone apps, ...