Fashion model Trixi Giese poses with the logo of TikTok at a recent fashion show in Germany. The social media company has come under fire for the data it supposedly collects on its users. Photo: Adam ...

‘Beware in-app browsers’ is a good rule of thumb for any privacy conscious mobile app user — given the potential for an app to leverage its hold on user attention to snoop on what you’re looking at ...

If you visit a website you see on Facebook and Instagram, you've likely noticed that you're not redirected to your browser of choice but rather a custom in-app browser. It turns out that those ...

Earlier this month, security researcher and former Google employee Felix Krause published a report detailing how Instagram, Facebook, and other apps can use the in-app browser to track people’s online ...

Both Apple and Google are doing great work to prevent multi-site tracking. Google Chrome is slowly phasing out cookies, and Apple goes the furthest by asking users to block multi-app/multi-site ...

Google has removed browser extensions with more than 1.4 million downloads from the Chrome Web Store after third-party researchers reported they were surreptitiously tracking users’ browsing history ...