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Fake apps could allow hackers to steal a user's money or a person's identity. Here's how to spot them on the app store and what to do if you download a fake app.

Lidiane Leite, a Brazilian mayor who governed her town via WhatsApp, went on the run in August 2015 when she was accused of taking the money form the town of Bom Jardim in Brazil’s north-west.

WhatsApp wasn't working for many users around the world on Thursday.

Tizi malware records conversations in WhatsApp and Skype on Android. Here is how to remove it and other Android malware.

Android users have found deleted WhatsApp messages can still be read by the recipient.

Freedom House—a nonprofit organization that conducts research and advocacy for democracy, political freedom, and human rights—released its annual Freedom on the Net report that found the rise of social media has led to new attempts to undermine the democratic process around the world.

The app acquired by Facebook in 2012 for $1 billion is now nearing 1 billion active users.

A new standalone App for the iPhone X allows up to 60 seconds of video playback.

A fake version of the popular communications app WhatsApp reached more than one million downloads on Android before it was finally removed from the Google Play Store.

WhatsApp flaw allows someone to stalk a user and possibly find out who he or she is talking to.

Spanish regulators have hit Facebook with $1.4 million fine over how the company collects personal information from its users.

Millennials can live without Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat, but not the Amazon app.

India's Supreme Court ruled that privacy is a fundamental right, creating new questions for a government identification program and for tech companies operating within the country.

Social media terms of service are too hard for the youngest users to read, leaving them vulnerable to agreeing to terms that they don't understand.

China may have shut Facebook out, but the company has not given up.

Twitter is reportedly in the process of testing out its Night Mode feature for its desktop website.

Instagram has begun testing a new feature that will let users invite friends as guests during live broadcasts.

Facebook's Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg wants companies to bridge the gender wage gap.

Google's security researchers discovered and blocked a new family of malware that could spy on just about every aspect of a user's Android device.

The Chinese government blocked WhatsApp as part of an internet crackdown, leaving users of the app unable to send photos, videos or texts.

Referring to the negative reactions about the emoji on social media, Rayouf Alhumedhi, who proposed the emoji, said: "It's only an emoji. It's not a game changer. But it will make people happy."

An Android malware known as GhostCtrl can record audio and video from an infected phone and steal information from connected Windows machines.

The law has been proposed to compel the global tech companies, mostly based in the U.S., to provide the security agencies access to encrypted messages.

The update has been slow in rolling, so if you haven't received it on your device yet, you might get it soon.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation ranked tech companies on how they handle government data requests. Here are the ones that received the lowest score and the best.

German regulators are considering investigating Facebook over its practice of data collection, which it provides users with little recourse for opting out of.

The company has rolled out two new features which had been announced at the Google I/O in May — suggested sharing and shared libraries.

Encrypted messaging app Telegram faces a ban in Russia after refusing to comply with the country's data protection laws.

WhatsApp is probably including a message "recall" or "unsend" feature in an update soon.