privacy

London police started using facial recognition cameras on Tuesday to automatically scan for wanted people, as authorities adopt the controversial…

Google’s parent company Alphabet is in a rare and potentially precarious position: It must answer growing public calls for privacy while placating…

Antivirus (AV) software giant Avast has announced that it will wind down one of its subsidiary businesses just days after leaked documents…

Google has temporarily disconnected Xiaomi’s IP cameras from its Home Hub service after a user reported that he was seeing images from other…

Google says it wants to make people more comfortable using its Assistant software. So the search giant on Tuesday announced new privacy controls…

Mozilla, maker of the Firefox web browser, says it’s giving all users more control of their own data. The change is spurred by the California…

Two battles are underway simultaneously in the area of user data privacy. One is a well-publicized regulatory battle. Through laws like 2018’s…

Three months ago, Google’s YouTube was hit by a record $170 million penalty and major new kids-privacy rules. Now YouTube wants the US government to…

SAN FRANCISCO: Four Democratic leaders on the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce committee on Monday wrote Alphabet Inc’s Google and…

Everyone’s talking about Nextdoor. It’s the social networking site that brings back good old-fashioned neighborhood chatter between you and the nice…