Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. Updated on Jan. 13 with further updates on locking apps on Android.

Google Play Store keeps sending multiple update notifications to Pixel and Samsung users. These notifications seem to be coming from first-party Google apps needing an update, even though they've been ...

The next major version of Android could include a feature that gives users much more granular control of app notification privacy. First spotted in an early developer build of Android 17 by Android ...

I was no longer scrambling to figure out what I’d missed ...