November 5, 2015 Tech Q&A: Connect with family online, spot fake dating profiles, and more Want to know how to keep youngsters entertained on Skype? Then read this column.
November 5, 2015 Divorcing? 5 things to do online now Since our offline and online lives are so intertwined, here are five things you need to do fast when a divorce is on the horizon.
November 5, 2015 Cellphone operator reveals scale of gov't snooping Vodafone, one of the world's largest cellphone companies, revealed the scope of government snooping into phone networks Friday, saying authorities in some countries are able to directly access an operator's network without seeking permission.
November 5, 2015 Massive FBI facial recognition database poses threat to privacy, group says A massive face recognition database being built by the FBI – which could contain up to 52 million images by 2015 – is a “real threat to privacy for all Americans,” a digital civil liberties group says.
November 5, 2015 Meltdowns hobble NSA's massive data center Chronic electrical surges at the massive new data-storage facility central to the National Security Agency's spying operation have destroyed hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of machinery and delayed the center's opening for a year, according to project documents and current and former officials.
November 5, 2015 Brazil looks to break from US-centric Internet after NSA spying Brazil plans to divorce itself from the U.S.-centric Internet over Washington's widespread online spying, a move that many experts fear will be a potentially dangerous first step toward fracturing a global network built with minimal interference by governments.
November 5, 2015 Yahoo CEO fears defying NSA could mean prison Yahoo chief Marissa Mayer said she feared winding up in prison for treason if she refused to comply with U.S. spy demands for data.
November 5, 2015 US 'blew it' on NSA spying, Facebook CEO Zuckerberg says Mark Zuckerberg has said the U.S. government "blew it" during the National Security Agency snooping scandal.
November 5, 2015 UK: Nations 'hiring hackers to attack enemies' A British intelligence report said Wednesday that other nations are hiring hackers to launch attacks against their enemies, a trend it described as particularly worrying.
November 5, 2015 Who's iWatching? Apple reveals NSA requests for data Apple says it received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests from U.S. law enforcement for customer data for the six months ended in May.