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The Trump administration is quietly meeting with top tech company representatives to craft a proposal to protect web users' privacy amid the ongoing fallout globally of scandals that have rocked Facebook and other companies.

Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline is investing US$300 million in the DNA-testing company 23andMe in a deal they say could spark the creation of important new medicines, but one that also has many raising privacy concerns.

Would you be willing to equip your bedroom or living room with an internet-connected microphone that could record and send all your conversations to the data-hungry server of a giant tech company or to a random person in your contact list? That is basical

China will soon begin tracking the movements of all new cars.

Millions of semi-conscious consumers, most of whom were probably outraged and appalled by recent privacy scandal outbreaks involving companies like Facebook and Equifax, have been casually shipping away the most precious keys to their genetic code and hel

Facebook allowed the device companies access to the data of users' friends without their explicit consent, even after declaring that it would no longer share such information with outsiders, the Times reports. Some device makers could retrieve persona

The filing is part of a suit brought against Facebook in 2015 by now-defunct startup Six4Three, CNET reported on Thursday.

A Portland family contacted Amazon to investigate after they say a private conversation in their home was recorded by Amazon's Alexa -- the voice-controlled smart speaker -- and that the recorded audio was sent to the phone of a random person in Seattle, who was in the familys contact list.

It seems like everyone from hackers to governments is after your personal information, but a virtual private network (VPN) can protect you and your data from prying eyes.

“People should be free to walk down the street without being watched by the government,” ACLU attorney Matt Cagle writes in a post tied to the news. “By automating mass surveillance, facial recognition systems like Rekognition threaten this freedom, posing a particular threat to communities already

Pervasive government surveillance might be virtually expected by this point, but in theory, there's a robust legal system to deal with cops surveilling citizens. Law enforcement agencies are supposed to get a warrant and serve that to cellphone compan

A new European data regulation that just a month ago seemed like an obscure piece of legislation is suddenly on the lips of everyone in

Oath, a media division of Verizon that runs AOL and Yahoo, has unified and updated its privacy terms, a move that impacts hundreds of millions...

Project Veritas set Twitter ablaze last week with back to back bombshell undercover videos exposing the social media giant for their 'big brother' practices and censorship of Trump supporters. New undercover footage reveals Twitter pays hundreds o

The Supreme Court will deliver its ruling on the issue of cell site location info later this year, possibly changing the contours of the Third Party Doctrine for the first time since its erection out of thin air more than four decades ago. Until then, a p

Short Bytes:A team of German researchers shared that anindividual’s secret web history and habit can be traced. Surprisingly, even after it goes under anonymity, it can be revealed. Security experts Svea Eckert and Andreas Dewes did their research w

Microsoft has been under fire for its privacy practices since Windows 10 launched in July 2015, so the company finally caved to the pressure to be more transparent and revealed the type of diagnostic data it collects.According to Microsoft, One of our mos

It turns out that just Googling a person's name is enough to be caught up in a criminal investigation, as a Minnesota judge has issued a warrant for anyone who searched for a specific name. The post Court issues warrant for data on anyone who ‘Googl