Privacy

A new Sherriff in town, Gas, has dethroned TikTok by capturing the attention of high schoolers across the US. But parents are concerned.

Personal email addresses of more than 300 gold-badged – or verified – Parler accounts were publicly revealed in a marketing letter.

Make sure you’re smiling: the Meta Quest Pro will track your facial expressions – and a set of cameras raise serious privacy concerns.

Over 80,000 drone IDs were exposed in a data leak after a database containing information from dozens of airspace monitoring devices manufactured by the Chinese-owned DJI was left accessible to the public.

A US firm unlawfully fired a remote employee after he refused to leave his webcam on for work, a court in the Netherlands ruled, citing the European Convention of Human Rights.

India’s much-contested proposals to regulate influential platforms such as Whatsapp, Signal, and Facetime have drawn fire from human rights campaigners.

Google has rolled out a new tool designed to request the removal of search results containing your phone number, home, or email address.

After pressure from consumer groups, the FTC is looking more deeply into Amazon's proposed $1.7 billion acquisition of iRobot

Threat actors increasingly target virtual private network (VPN) providers to break into organizations.

“Really, Facebook?” Tweeted Jack Sweeney after the social media giant unpublished his page tracking billionaire’s flights.

Senators and congressmen have written an open letter to the US telecoms policy watchdog calling on it to immediately cease public disclosure of personal information about users of the country’s top-level .us domain.

It has confirmed what many long suspected – Instagrammers spend much more time behind their photos than an effortless-looking final result might suggest.

While targeting executives requires more focus and planning, a successful attack on a high-value account provides attackers with unprecedented access to valuable data.

The UK government's war on end-to-end encryption continues, with home secretary Priti Patel declaring that it represents a 'grotesque betrayal' of children.

Cosmetics giant was fined $1.2 million for failing to inform customers about selling their information.

Some of your favorite apps may be sharing sensitive information like location, race, or even sexual orientation with third parties.

The 24GB-strong dataset contained highly sensitive information including bank account numbers, holder names and balances, as well as transaction types, destinations, and amounts.

There has been an epiphany at Meta that identifying new companies and copying their core features are no longer enough to prevent competitors from encroaching on their territory. But how did we get here?