That contact list on your phone is a goldmine of private data. It is full of names, birthdays, addresses, and more. Until now, if an app wanted to interact with your address book, you faced an ...

Chances are, the smartphone in your hand isn't your first. And chances are, it's carrying contacts from three, five, even 10 years ago that you've been faithfully migrating from phone to phone. My ...

Seeking to make its inner workings a part of the fabric of the Internet, Yahoo is opening the interface to its address book. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...