October 3, 2018 Facebook could be forced to pay you nearly $8G after ‘disaster’ hack attack that left 50M users exposed Hacked Facebook users could be owed as much as 6,000 pounds ($7,800) in compensation as a result of the security breach revealed last week.
October 3, 2018 Apple CEO: It's 'bunk' tech giants need your data Tim Cook has a four-letter word for Silicon Valley’s relentless thirst for customer data: “ bunk.”
September 29, 2018 Browse privately, master Windows and more: Tech Q&A Google is tracking everything. Is there a search site that doesn't record what you search?
September 25, 2018 Google faces privacy backlash over Chrome's 'forced login' policy A tweak to the Chrome browser is prompting concern that Google is angling to suck up everyone's browser histories.
September 21, 2018 Nearly half all cell phone calls will be scams by 2019, report says Close to half of all calls to mobile phones will be fraudulent in 2019 unless measures are taken to mitigate the surge, according to a new report.
September 21, 2018 Amazon's new gadgets are just another data-collection scheme To use the title of Brad Stone's seminal book about the nation's largest online retailer, Amazon is so much "The Everything Store" that it can be a little hard to remember when it was just a bookstore.
September 18, 2018 China has a 'chilling' system to control everyone China's chilling dictatorship is moving quickly to introduce social scorecards, in which all citizens will be monitored 24/7 and ranked on their behavior.
September 7, 2018 Russia is the top aggressor of internet attacks on the US The U.S. was on the receiving end of more Internet attacks than any other country, a new report says.
August 31, 2018 Grieving dad slammed Facebook after 'sick sadist' trolled him about his dead daughter A grief stricken British father lashed out at Facebook after a ‘sick sadist’ admitted that he posted derogatory material about his dead young daughter.
August 30, 2018 Lots of email scams are surprisingly simple but effective, report says Many email scams are effective because they’re so straightforward, a new report says.