Flashlight apps are a dying breed. Google began adding them to Android as early as Lollipop, and OEMs have included them on their OEM skins for far longer. The need for this dwindles as the market ...

If you’ve ever wondered what the point of those flashlight apps are, wonder no more: they are kick-butt investigation tools. The next time you need to crawl down a 150-foot electrical conduit and ...

No one should be downloading a flashlight app in the Year of Our Lord 2019 -- that's why both Google and Apple have integrated the ability into their devices as part of the base operating system.

Goldenshores Technologies, LLC, the company behind the Brightest Flashlight Free app, will have to be more direct with consumers in the future about how information is gathered and for what purposes.

The following is a guest post from Simon Bates, Senior Advisor, Policy & Initiatives at MEF. Have you ever wondered why something as simple as a flash-light app requests your location when you boot it ...