Update: Amazon responds on authorities issuing a warrant for an Amazon Echo device powered by Alexa to see if the gadget has any information linked to a 2015 murder case.
Foreigners coming into the U.S. are being requested to provide their Facebook, Twitter and other social media accounts upon arriving in the country.
Privacy groups have filed a complaint against Google to the Federal Trade Commission regarding the search giant's new policy that combines personally-identifiable data with browsing information gathered by advertisers.
Google has voluntarily agreed to settle a lawsuit by changing the way it scans emails. The company will soon wait until emails arrive in a user's inbox before scanning for advertising purposes.
Evernote’s privacy changes will take effect Jan. 22, 2017 and users are threatening to abandon the service.
A lawsuit filed against Uber by a former security employee alleges the company allowed for wide access of customer data that allowed employees to track prominent people and personal acquaintances.
Consumer watchdogs in the United States and Europe have filed complaints against smart toy manufacturers for failing to disclose their products are recording and retaining conversations with children.
Trusted Contacts is Google's new personal safety app.
A change to a federal rule is set to go into effect on December 1 that will grant the federal government wide-ranging warrants to hack into devices remotely.
A recently revealed flaw shows that attackers can access a phone owner's private information from their iPhones, including contacts, photos and message logs.
Edward Snowden is holding a Q & A about Donald Trump, privacy and much more with a live audience. Watch the Snowden discuss online here.
Several of the emails belonged to Russia’s former Deputy Prime Minister Vladislav Surkov and point to Russian involvement in eastern Ukraine.
The company’s announcement comes amid uncertainty about its future following a hacking breach, allegations of invasion of users' privacy and doubts surrounding a deal with Verizon.
The company developed a software program to search emails for specific information requested by the government.
The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information also asked the California tech giant to delete all the data it has collected from WhatsApp so far.
Best-selling author James Patterson has decided not to publish his new thriller “The Murder of Stephen King.”
WhatsApp is working on another way to make its users feel more secure by adding passcodes to messages.
The California-based tech giant took privacy to a new level when it obscured the face of a cow in Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
The announcement Thursday is ostensibly meant to benefit users, but if you have privacy concerns, you have only one month to opt out.
In an effort to shed light on the global surveillance industry, Privacy International has released a searchable database of over 500 surveillance companies across the world.
New anti-terrorism laws in Russia will force communications operators to store metadata for three years and release it to security services when requested.
Despite speculation by experts that leaving the iOS kernel unencrypted was a bid to improve security, a source says this is not the case.
