Controversial aerial surveillance program in major US city to reduce crime ended, after lawsuit and pressure from civil rights group
Response to Apple privacy rule. Facebook testing new pop-up alert for iPhone apps, explaining benefits of data collection
Microsoft 365 Productivity Score feature, introduced last month, criticised for analysing 'extensive data' on individual employees' activities
Privacy nightmare? Police ask residents in US city to link their smart doorbells to surveillance hub to reduce local crime
Not a problem? Amazon responds to media report on union activity tracking, by saying it respects worker rights to join…
Amazon names former NSA director to board of directors, who was also the man in charge when Edward Snowden blew…
Controversial loss-making data intelligence company to lay out its business to investors ahead of unusual direct listing on New York…
Spying setback. US Court of Appeals rules the NSA surveillance and mass data collection program exposed by Edward Snowden, was…
Data requests from Hong Kong authorities are being ignored, Google confirms, after China imposed controversial national security law
Current laws give security services 'excessive' access to citizens' data, finds top court, giving government until end of 2021 to…
Tech giants pledge pause data sharing with authorities in Hong Kong, after China imposed draconian security law for the territory
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
Big Blue cancels its facial recognition programs and calls for reform and new ways to work with law enforcement, "to…
French minister defends centralised approach of its Covid-19 contact-tracing app, citing the French and UK's nuclear deterrent
EU officials warn member states that Covid-19 tracing apps must not be used for 'mass surveillance' and need to be…
Chinese firm banned by the United States over allegations it aided the Chinese government, supplies thermal cameras to Amazon for…
Surveillance specialist NSO offers Western governments software that uses mobile phone data to monitor and predict the spread of coronavirus
Delay to implementation of law banning sales of electronic devices in Russia unless they come pre-loaded with Russian-made software
European mobile operators are sharing location data with health authorities in certain European countries to limit the spread of the…
NSO Group fails to show up in US court to contest WhatsApp spyware lawsuit, despite promising to 'vigorously fight' Facebook's…
Privacy issue emerges as Amazon confirms it logs records of every motion detected by installed Ring doorbells, and interactions with…
Mozilla Foundation has turned on its privacy feature called DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) for American users of the Firefox browser
Privacy concern. Cease-and-desist letter from Twitter to AI firm Clearview demands it stop collecting photos from social media platforms
ToTok chat and messaging app that is popular in UAE, is allegedly a spy tool for the government, it is…
Russian pursuit of “sovereign internet” sees the country test its Internet unplugged from rest of the world
Electronic devices such as smartphones, computers and smart televisions must come pre-loaded with Russian-made software
Facebook division files lawsuit against NSO Group, because of alleged surveillance tool exploit
Relationship between Google staff and management sinks to new low after worker surveillance allegation
Security vendor finds heavily promoted Chinese app contains code to allow state monitoring of phones