The average US smartphone user gets about 46 push notifications a day, according to app analysis firm Business of Apps. OK, let's do some math: There are more than 1.46 billion active iPhone users ...

Numerous iOS apps are using background processes triggered by push notifications to collect user data about devices, potentially allowing the creation of fingerprinting profiles used for tracking.

iPhone apps are scooping up your data via push notifications, according to a new report. Credit: Getty Images Push notifications are being exploited to invasively collect user data once again, ...

Security researcher Tommy Mysk has demonstrated that iPhone push notifications are being used by popular apps to covertly send data about the user. In a new video outlining the practice, Mysk ...

Both in-app ads and push notifications are being used to identify and spy on iPhone users, according to two separate reports. When Apple changed the rules, to require apps to seek your permission ...

Some Gmail complaints are perennial: Google won’t let me recover my account password, or a hacker has changed my two-factor authentication options. Now it seems you can add push notifications that ...

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