Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as ...

Google is apparently stepping up its efforts to crack down on illicit distribution of Google's Android apps. According to XDA Developers, Google logins on unlicensed devices will now fail at setup, ...

That's the claim made by Trevor Eckhart, a man who posted a video showing Carrier IQ's software being used to document just about everything users do on their devices. CNET contributor Don Reisinger ...

Last week, some Facebook users discovered that the social network logged all calls and text messages made on their Android devices. The revelation came in the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica ...