After pushback from Facebook and advertising associations, Apple delays implementation of new privacy controls on advertisers tracking ability
Spying setback. US Court of Appeals rules the NSA surveillance and mass data collection program exposed by Edward Snowden, was…
No need for official government app! Apple and Google to roll-out built-in Covid-19 exposure notifications to smartphones
Google and Facebook's Pacific Light Cable Network (PLCN) cable will not be activated in Hong Kong, after security law and…
Data requests from Hong Kong authorities are being ignored, Google confirms, after China imposed controversial national security law
Milestone ruling. The UK Court of Appeal rules use of automatic facial recognition (AFR) tech by South Wales Police is…
'Madness' says Chinese state-backed media, as America pushes ahead with 'clean Internet' plan, with purge of Chinese tech from US…
European competition regulators launch formal antitrust investigation of Alphabet's Google and its decision to acquire Fitbit
Campaigners claim that UK's track and trace scheme broke data protection laws, but experts say non-compliance understandable considering unprecedented emergency
Alphabet may be able to offset looming EC antitrust probe of its Fitbit acquisition, if it pledges not to use…
Tech giants pledge pause data sharing with authorities in Hong Kong, after China imposed draconian security law for the territory
Privacy win? Google will automatically delete user's website searches and visits, as well as some location data, after 18 months
Software giant follows IBM and Amazon with police facial recognition ban until there is national regulation of the technology
Strategic move? Google, Facebook, Microsoft pledge to improve and standardise annual disclosures around online child exploitation
E-commerce giant Amazon joins other tech firms with announcement it will pause police use of its facial recognition software
Big Blue cancels its facial recognition programs and calls for reform and new ways to work with law enforcement, "to…
We are tracking you. Apple warns looters after some street protests in the United States result in the looting of…
Class action lawsuit seeks $5 billion from Google, for allegedly tracking people's internet usage via browser's 'private mode'
American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against facial recognition firm alleging “privacy-destroying surveillance activities”
French minister defends centralised approach of its Covid-19 contact-tracing app, citing the French and UK's nuclear deterrent
Three months after Firefox turned on privacy feature called DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH), Google's Chrome browser gets same feature, but only if…
Security flaws in the NHS coronavirus contact-tracing app could pose risk to user privacy, as the NCSC promises to fix…
EU officials warn member states that Covid-19 tracing apps must not be used for 'mass surveillance' and need to be…
Nothing to hide. The NHS has released the source code of its contact-tracing app, as its trial in the Isle…
Fresh twist in privacy debate surrounding Covid-19 tracing app, after government reportedly grants GCHQ access to security data of NHS…
Chinese firm banned by the United States over allegations it aided the Chinese government, supplies thermal cameras to Amazon for…
Facebook unit files new court documents alleging NSO was 'deeply involved' in mobile phone hack of 1,400 WhatsApp users, including…
The NHS confirms its coronavirus tracing app will be ready in two to three weeks, but concerns remain over its…
France asks Google and Apple for their ‘private’ Coronavirus tracing API to be a little less private, with the easing…
European Commission publishes detailed guidance for EU member states developing their own Coronavirus tracking and warning apps