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 ...

Your company's network administrator sets the users' access rights and roles to Microsoft Outlook folders. Access rights enable users to share folders such as their ...

Android 10 introduced a ton of new features but one of the most important features was the changes to the permission system. Permissions have come a long way on Android and it’s a lot better now than ...

Active Directory (AD) is an excellent file and folder permissions, security, and management tool. It allows administrators to give permission to access specific folders to specific users. Simply put, ...

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Learn how mobile app permissions affect payment security. Understand why UPI apps require specific access and how to protect ...

Thanks to Facebook, app permissions have popped back into the public’s consciousness again. Last month it was discovered that Facebook had stored the phone logs of Android users who opted sharing ...

The top three permissions requested by iPhone apps globally are for photos, camera access, and location while using the app. But 40% of the top 1,500 apps in the U.S. ask for background location ...

Using a smartphone comes with pros and cons. There are features we genuinely enjoy, and others we might be wary of. App permissions are a perfect example of this trade-off. Today, almost everything we ...

Ubuntu, like other Linux distributions, restricts access to files and system settings by default. Each user account has read and write access to its own files and read access to some system files.