October 22, 2015 Apple: Our systems weren’t breached in celeb photo leak Apple has said that none of its systems were breached in the cyberattack that saw leaked photos of nude celebrities posted online.
October 22, 2015 Facebook expands privacy checkup tool, will limit post audience for new users to 'friends' More Facebook users can expect to see a blue cartoon dinosaur popping up in their feeds, reminding them to check their privacy settings.
October 22, 2015 US branded an ‘enemy of the Internet’ by Reporters Without Borders Joining nations such as Russia, China, Iran and Saudi Arabia, the United States of America has made it on to the Reporters Without Borders' 'Enemies of the Internet' list for the first time.
October 22, 2015 Mass protests planned for Tues over NSA surveillance Thousands are scheduled to gather on Tuesday to protest the surveillance state, but don’t expect any news of riots at the White House gates or marches on the National Mall.
October 22, 2015 Web inventor Berners-Lee says NSA surveillance threatens democracy The scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web says a growing tide of surveillance is threatening democracy's future.
October 22, 2015 Healthcare.gov ‘may already have been compromised,’ security expert says Not only is healthcare.gov at risk, it may already have been compromised, a security expert testified before the Senate.
October 22, 2015 NSA efforts to crack encryption 'betrayed Internet,' expert says Experts on privacy and Internet security have blasted the National Security Agency over reports it has secretly been working with the British government to crack encryption technology that billions of Internet users rely upon to keep their electronic messages and confidential data secure.
October 22, 2015 The generation that's grown up posting their lives online wants something unexpected: privacy As the debate over government surveillance rages on, there's an assumption that young people will be the least concerned about privacy.
October 22, 2015 Phone companies selling customer information Big phone companies have begun to sell the vast troves of data they gather about their subscribers' locations, travels and Web-browsing habits -- a powerful tool for marketers that raises new privacy concerns.
October 22, 2015 Protect your privacy on Google Do you know every Google search you've ever performed is stored on the search giant's servers? And that data is cross-linked to your search data from YouTube, Google Maps and any other Google services you use.