Start using a new app and you’ll often be asked to grant it permissions. But blindly accepting them could expose you to ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

Microsoft Edge is redesigning site permissions with one-time access, device selection, and automatic removal for unused sites. Rollout starts in March 2026.

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Protect your privacy by keeping those permissions to a minimum. Protect your privacy by keeping those permissions ...

How often do you assess the risk of browser extensions and their permissions? There are a myriad of browser extensions that can be installed in today’s modern web browsers. While browser extensions ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. You can decide what data your apps are allowed to access — and what they are not You can decide what data your ...

With macOS Sequoia, Apple is requiring users to regularly reauthorize permissions for screen recording apps, but you may not have to do it quite as often with a change that's being implemented in ...

Google is updating the Chrome web browser to automatically revoke notification permissions for websites that haven't been visited recently, to reduce alert overload. While Google Chrome's Safety Check ...

I rarely write about Apple’s betas because something significant may change between when I publish an article and when Apple updates the beta or releases the production version. I don’t want to waste ...

Jake is a cybersecurity graduate with a knack for simplifying complex technical concepts into digestible nuggets of information. Approaching his one-year milestone of keeping you in the loop on the ...