The OS that helped Edward Snowden communicate with journalists is ready for prime time
New measures allow users to limit how much personal information they share with third-party mobile apps
Microsoft tries to fight US government attempts to get data held on foreign soil, but fails
Brazil passes legislation designed to protect web users ahead of global confernence on the future of Internet governance in the…
The government is pushing ahead with legal changes that would allow HMRC to share anonymised taxpayer data, but only in…
A German media boss accuses Google of building a digital superstate and operating a global network monopoly
Virgin Media customers with a 'virgin.net' address complain of receiving hundreds of messages after a service email lets anyone reply…
Failure to hand over encryption keys could land Lavabit founder Levison with hefty fines
Tech giant takes action after facing criticism for not being clear over Gmail scanning
The Microsoft Azure platform becomes the first solution to meet the EU's stringent privacy requirements
Rights bodies call for the UK to finally drop plans to force ISPs into keeping user information
Former Home secretary David Blunkett and ex-director of GCHQ Sir David Omand both say the intelligence agency should be more…
Italy hands out one of the stiffest European fines to Google over its StreetView cars
The NSA scandal has eroded user trust in the big US cloud service and storage providers, suggests our latest poll
LinkedIn says it is doing everything it can to shut down a service called Sell Hack which shares email addresses,…
Google concerned over fake Domain Name System servers apparently set up by Turkish ISPs, amidst various forms of web censorship…
US President will make proposal to Congress following major public outcry at NSA mass surveillance
New rules come after the company allegedly read the email account of an ex-employee suspected of leaking Microsoft secrets
Huawei is outraged: it seems that the NSA was spying on it, while the US government accused it of spying…
Microsoft has drawn complaints for accessing the Hotmail account of a blogger during its investigation of leaked software
NSA brief contradicts tech giants' vociferous claims they knew nothing about surveillance
Jan Koum defends WhatsApp users' right to privacy following $19bn acquisition by Facebook earlier this month
NSA data collection even more vast than previously thought
ICO looks into claims that BT exposed its users' email accounts during platform migration from Yahoo Mail
Surveillance might be good for us, programming languages could die, and cars may fly, says Nathaniel Borenstein, inventor of email…
However, the inventor of the World Wide Web never thought his creation would facilitate the exchange of so many cat…
Overwhelming majority of MEPs vote in favour of measures like the ‘right to be forgotten’ and increased data breach fines
We need to encrypt everything, the whistleblower tells South by Southwest festival, over a live link from Moscow
Volkswagen CEO says IT and car industries must work together on connected cars and that there should be privacy protection…
EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes says it is crucial that European data protection legislation is pushed through in 2014