privacy

The hacking procedure that was used for the San Bernardino Apple devices works only on a "narrow slice of phones," said the FBI director on April 6 at Kenyon College ...

Apple has found itself in a funny spot by refusing the FBI's request to unlock the iPhone of ...

The San Bernardino terrorist suspect Syed Rizwan Farook used an iPhone 5c, which is now in the possession ...

A recent court order against Apple compels the company to help the FBI gain access to a locked ...

Apple CEO Tim Cook said Wednesday that it would be "bad for America" if his company complied with ...

A recent federal court ruling ordering the release of personal data on more than 10 million California students ...

Online thieves who steal credit and debit card numbers are making millions of dollars in profits, fueling a ...

The replacement for the EU-U.S. Safe Harbor agreement that was ruled unlawful by a European court last year ...

Since so much of life has moved online, a clash has emerged between the opposing values of Internet ...

Encryption is a core part of the Internet. It is also the foundation upon which all e-commerce is ...

Governments are threatening to undermine the encryption that keeps our online communications private.

Politicians have turned their sights on encryption once more following terrorist outrages in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif.

VPN services obfuscate the user’s real IP address by routing traffic through other international servers

Your phone is getting better and better at protecting your privacy. But Uncle Sam isn't totally comfortable with ...

Cities are complex systems, some may even say messy systems.

Enter the era of what is called "predictive policing."

Apple removed 256 apps from the App Store for using code from Chinese firm Youmi, which was gathering ...

Security researchers say they found critical weaknesses in a South Korean government-mandated child surveillance app — vulnerabilities that ...

When people say “privacy is dead”, it’s usually for one of two reasons.

Although Apple is crushing everyone in its path with new sales records year after year, it has often ...

In my last article, I gave you a list of reasons why you should wait for Windows 10. ...

Every now and then, I see an article in the media that is skeptical about the future of ...

Google is making its privacy controls easier to find and understand

Anyone who’s inclined to think of Google as a bunch of creepy privacy invaders will likely have their ...

Twitter is in the woods. The company's latest quarterly results, leaked ahead of schedule by a little known ...

A federal court has ruled that the NSA's metadata surveillance program, which collected information on at least 80 ...

Finding privacy in your own home should be easy –but often, this task feels more difficult than it ...