November 3, 2015 Google: NSA spying on data centers is ‘outrageous’ Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt called reports of the U.S. government spying on the company's data centers "outrageous" and if proven true, potentially illegal.
November 3, 2015 Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter call for transparency on NSA spying Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft are part of a broad alliance of technology companies and civil liberties groups that will demand dramatically increased transparency around U.S. government surveillance efforts.
November 3, 2015 3 simple ways to delete your data for good It's always exciting buying a new computer. You can't wait to set it up and put its power to use. Of course, it often creates a problem: What do you do with your old computer?
November 3, 2015 France threatens Google with privacy fines France is giving Google three months to be more upfront about the data it collects from users -- or be fined.
November 3, 2015 Report: School district scanned children's eyes for bus program without permission A series of behind-the-scenes mistakes by educators in a Florida school district led to children’s biometric information being culled without their parents’ permission, TheLedger.com reported.
November 3, 2015 Could revelations about NSA spying make us less secure? No matter where the debate about freedom, democracy and the Constitution goes from here, the leaked information concerning the National Security Agency's various secret surveillance programs including Prism is going to have some immediate fallout.
November 3, 2015 Harvard snoops through professors' email, teaches new lessons in privacy Even some of the smartest people can be really dumb about technology. To wit, the recent hubbub at Harvard University over the scandalous, surreptitious searching of academia's finest's e-mails.
November 3, 2015 There are secret cell towers in London that fool phones into giving up private call data In a report published by Sky News, evidence is shown that fake cell towers are being used in London, which have the ability to eavesdrop on calls and collect additional communications data.
November 3, 2015 Pornography app snaps user's photo, demands ransom If you've used Adult Player, sorry to hear it: It's an Android porn app that takes a photo of you with the phone's front-facing camera, immobilizes the device, and demands a $500 payment via a locked ransom screen to fix the phone and delete the photo.
November 3, 2015 How stolen data sold to a bald guy landed AT&T with record breaking $25 million FCC fine AT&T is about to pay heavily for a data breach which saw a wealth of personal data stolen and sold from some of its call centers last year.
