Previously secret Homeland Security report on illegal use of smartphone location data now public
A Homeland Security report on the illegal use of smartphone location data by multiple government agencies – including the US…
A Homeland Security report on the illegal use of smartphone location data by multiple government agencies – including the US…
iPhone hacks developed by Italian company RCS Lab have been used by law enforcement agencies in Europe, according to a…
Apple has been fined $8.5 million in France over how personalized advertising works on the iPhone. France’s CNIL data protection…
Apple’s decision to be much more proactive in alerting users to background location tracking in iOS 13 has resulted in…
A British iPhone owners’ lawsuit against Google filed in 2017 and which the High Court blocked in 2018 has today…
If there’s one thing that’s become abundantly clear since Apple and Google’s API partnership, it’s that the coronavirus contact tracing…
Earlier this month, four US senators formally questioned Apple in a letter over its COVID-19 screening app and website even though…
Firefox is rolling out a new privacy feature designed to stop ISPs from tracking the websites you visit. Known as…
New York attorney general Letitia James has asked Apple and Google to vet contact tracing apps submitted to their app…
Earlier this week, the White House suggested that it might declare TikTok a national security threat, with Secretary of State…
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo yesterday raised the prospect of a US TikTok ban over concerns that the popular app…
A group of Republican senators are making yet another attempt to ban end-to-end encryption in messaging services, which would make…
If you’re looking for a secure external drive that meets both US military and government security standards, there are a…
Well-intentioned charities and academics have urged Facebook to halt encryption plans for its messaging apps, citing concerns about child exploitation….
Apple has released its 2019 Security guide that covers the company’s efforts across a variety of levels including hardware security…
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has acknowledged using databases that track millions of smartphone users, despite a court ruling…
Hackers who compiled a database of as many as 350,000 Spotify passwords proceeded to store it on a cloud server…
Apple has been fined €10M ($11.3M) in Italy for what competition authorities say is the misuse of customer data. Google…
An international network of intelligence agencies has told the tech industry that ‘privacy is not an absolute’ and that the…
We said yesterday that the war of words on the Apple/FBI dispute were hotting up, and Edward Snowden has now…
Apple and Google have co-signed a letter calling on President Obama to reject any government proposal to allow the government backdoor access…
It’s not uncommon for people to think that Facebook is spying on their conversations when online ads appear to advertise…
The European Union’s new privacy regulations – the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – come into force next month, and Facebook…
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has apologized to Congress in a written statement ahead of his testimony before two committee hearings…