A new bug in Google Messages leaves your camera on in the background, quickly draining your battery and heating up your device. Update: Google has begun rolling out a fix for the Messages app. Within ...

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The Facebook for iOS app appears to be accessing the iPhone or iPad's camera in the background when the app is in use, according to multiple reports on Twitter. The sliver of brown in this demo photo ...

Alfred Ng was a senior reporter for CNET News. He was raised in Brooklyn and previously worked on the New York Daily News's social media and breaking news teams. When you're scrolling through Facebook ...

App makers are going to have to rethink things when iOS 14 arrives, because the next version of Apple's mobile operating system has a privacy feature that likes to tattle on certain behaviors. We have ...