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
Police and government data requests focused overwhelmingly on individuals over enterprises in 2013, according to Microsoft
British Pregnancy Advice Service was hacked twice in March 2012 by Anonymous hacker James Jeffrey
FreedomPop launches a fully encrypted smartphone dubbed the Privacy Phone, to counter NSA snooping
US telco Sprint overcharged the US government £13m for facilitating spying operations such as wiretaps, according to a US Justice…
NHS data sharing initiatives cause upset again after two third parties take down files that indicate they shared public data…
A legal complaint to stop the NSA storing phone records is having the opposite result, says Wayne Rash. The data…
Snowden documents suggest GCHQ was collecting millions of images of law-abiding citizens obtained directly from their webcams during online chats…
Virgin Media to offer free speed upgrades to customers - and parental controls too