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A new surveillance system now being tested in China would eliminate online privacy and allow the regime to monitor all online activity.
The Commonwealth Bank supports the digital ID rollout but has maintained that it must remain voluntary and be secure.
What would it mean if you lost all of your personal documents, such as your family photos, research or business records?
This humble device is often overlooked, yet it is also your first line of defence against hackers, malware and viruses.
Just how secure is Tor, one of the most widely used internet privacy tools?
A proposed law meant to encourage companies to share information about cyberthreats with the U.S. government includes measures that could significantly limit what details, if any, the public can review about the program through federal and state public records laws.
The deadly attacks in Paris may soon reopen the debate over whether—and how—tech companies should let the government sidestep the data scrambling that shields everyday commerce and daily digital life alike.
The legislation brought forward by UK and US governments pursues an aggressive path toward entrenching surveillance powers at the cost of citizens’ privacy.
Through pressure from Google, Facebook, and other major providers such as Yahoo and Apple the world wide web is slowly becoming more secure.
The battle between the advertising industry, mobile phone operators, publishers and privacy advocates has reached new heights, with Apple’s decision to allow ad-blocking extensions in its Safari browser sparking fears that the multi-billion dollar mobile ad industry could be about to take an expensive haircut.
The “digital assistant” is proliferating, able to combine intelligent natural language processing, voice-operated control over a smartphone’s functions and access to web services.
Two major pieces of legislation regarding online piracy and cybersecurity were rejected in 2012, and dynamic discussions on Internet privacy are expected to continue throughout 2013.
The U.N. has been pressuring the United States to hand over control of global telecommunications, but Washington is putting the brakes on that plan over concerns that member states including China and Russia, will gain too much control over cybersecurity.
Companies collect and share information about their customers in many ways, some of which are invisible to the customers.
