privacy

A new report based on documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden will make Canadians question whether the country’s electronic spy agency does, as it claims, …

An alarming proportion of Android applications can find and open private photographs on smartphones, track users’ locations, divulge e-mail addresses over the internet …

Smartphone users need to realise that their mobile phone is less of a phone and more of a mobile computer, in which applications can collect data from other applications …

TRUSTe released its latest U.S. Consumer Confidence Index, which shows that a high proportion of U.S. adults aged 18 and older are worried about their privacy online, online …

Just in time for Data Privacy Day, Microsoft has released the results of a survey that shows the privacy attitudes of technology savvy individuals in the US and four European …

TorMail users engaged in illegal activities might have felt more than a twinge of anxiety when it was confirmed last summer that the FBI took control of Freedom …

Awareness days are a great way to raise the profile of important issues that might otherwise go unnoticed and Data Privacy Day is no different. Held annually on January 28, …

Texas-based specialty retailer Michaels Stores is the latest company to officially announce that it has been targeted by cyber crooks that were after their customers’ …

Consumers increasingly share their personal data, including payment information, with a growing number of e-retailers. The keys that protect their personal data are the …

Microsoft has released the results of a global survey that tried to answer the question how people around the world see technology and how personal technology has changed …

American luxury department store chain Neiman Marcus has finally offered some details about the breach it suffered during the end of the year holidays. It’s not as bad …

Several security flaws in the popular Google Chrome browser can be exploited to turn the computer into a surreptitious listening device, claims Israeli developer Tal Ater. As …