Apple is requiring apps that access your contact information to explicitly request access. Annoying extra step or critical privacy measure? Luke Westaway is a senior editor at CNET and writer/ ...

Many apps (social, browsers, games) request contact access even when it's unnecessary. Allowing access lets apps upload and share your entire address book beyond your control. Contacts get sold, cross ...

Google will also set tighter limits on location sharing.

Facebook recently admitted to having “unintentionally” imported the email contacts from 1.5 million people without their permission since May 2016. This means that if your friend having your email ID ...

Google is developing a new Contacts Picker tool for Android 17 to fix the current all-or-nothing contacts permission. This tool will allow you to share specific contacts with an app, rather than your ...