Every smartphone owner who has installed a new app has faced the same rapid-fire permission prompts: access your contacts, ...

Path got caught red-handed uploading users' address books to its servers and had to apologize. But the relatively obscure journaling app is not alone. In fact, Path was crucified for a practice that ...

Contacts on our phone are essential to help us stay in touch, and the best address book app for android makes it so much easier. Especially for businesses, keeping contacts intact is an integral part ...

Antivirus software specialist Bitdefender has found that nearly 19% of iOS apps access your address book without your knowledge — or your consent — when you’re using them, and 41% track your location.

iOS apps that build their own social networks on the back of users’ address books may soon become a thing of the past. In iOS 18, Apple is cracking down on the social apps that ask users’ permission ...

The address book is outdated. On the iPhone, while most of my contacts reside in the Contacts app, I rarely go in there. Instead, I connect with people on Facebook, via SnapChat, WhatsApp and more.

WhatsApp is adding the ability to save contacts within the app independently from your smartphone’s address book. WhatsApp is adding the ability to save contacts within the app independently from your ...

Plaxo, the free contact application that automatically updates address books via e-mail, has gained notoriety since it was launched just over a year ago. Now its creators are pinning the application’s ...

Instead of giving apps full access to your address book, you will be able to choose exactly which contacts they can see. Previously, apps often relied on a broad permission that exposed your entire ...