Phreeli, the first wireless service built entirely around privacy-by-design, launched today to provide consumers across the U ...

With a SIM-swapping attack, scammers hijack your phone number to gain access to apps on your phone—including banking apps.

The DoT order will cover all the major smartphone makers, including Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo and the app once ...

A smartphone is essentially a tiny computer in your pocket. A dumb phone lacks the apps and features that smartphones have.

It is legal to offer phone services without knowing customer names in every state, according to the founder, and a system called the "double blind armadillo" is used to separate customer billing data ...

At the centre of Phreeli’s offering is a proprietary encryption architecture the company calls Double‑Blind Armadillo, which ...

A government tool meant to protect your phone raises bigger questions about data, surveillance and digital trust ...

Researchers have uncovered a WhatsApp privacy flaw that allowed them to discover the 3.5 billion mobile numbers using the app globally, and possibly infer the identities of some of the people behind ...

WhatsApp's mass adoption stems in part from how easy it is to find a new contact on the messaging platform: Add someone's phone number, and WhatsApp instantly shows whether they're on the service, and ...

India's government, amid an uproar over privacy, has revoked an order quietly issued to smartphone makers to pre-install a ...

A 'ban' on social media for under-16s has come into force in Australia. Although there's no such legislation looming here, ...

Security researchers have discovered a critical vulnerability with WhatsApp that exposes the phone numbers of more than 3 billion users worldwide.