PRIVACY

George Orwell imagined a world of omnipresent government surveillance and mind control in his iconic dystopian novel '1984.'

Here are five ways you can avoid the prying eyes of the government and corporations participating in the NSA's Prism program.

Everybody who's anybody in the tech sector is involved in the U.S. data-collection effort.

French prosecutors have started probing UBS for its role in helping its French subsidiary provide offshore banking services to clients.

The top senators on the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee say the tactics are standard, legal and effective in counterrorism efforts.

A U.S. district judge in San Francisco rejected Google’s request to throw out 19 NSLs after two FBI officials submitted classified affidavits.

The short reign of “naked-image” body scanners at U.S. airports came to a modest end this week, according to TSA.

Google's new chat platform, Hangouts, removes several of the options for private chat that users had in Google Talk.

A pew study says teens are losing interest in Facebook due to the increased presence of adults, but sticking around to keep in touch.

New Jersey drivers could see drones hovering above the New Jersey Turnpike by 2015, and lawmakers are getting ready.

Bloomberg cut its reporters' access to confidential client data, but could it be too late to avoid damage to its bottom line?

On Tuesday, a German court rejected eight of Apple’s customer data clauses, saying those rules deviated too much from German laws.

An annual report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation ranked 18 major Internet companies' efforts to protect their users' privacy.

Privacy advocates at the Georgia ACLU are concerned about a pilot program to monitor students on Gordon County school buses using RFID badges.

A Texas bill is seeking to make airport pat-down procedures by TSA workers criminal.

Google is fighting the FBI's National Security Letter demanding Google give up private user data.

Congress will meet to markup the controversial CISPA bill, but unlike last year, the committee will hold its debates away from the public eye.

France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK are taking action versus Google over its controversial unified privacy policy.

The prevalence of cameras, Bloomberg said, is part of the reason the issue is so difficult to control, especially from a legislative standpoint.

China's infamous Web censors have unblocked online movie resource IMDb. Don't hold your breath for a free Internet future, though.

A Wisconsin woman trying to protect her "wholesome" image failed to persuade a federal appeals court to hold Google Inc. liable because searches for her name could lead people to advertisements for drugs to treat sexual dysfunction.