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FCC fines two cellphone carriers over privacy breaches

Paul Gonzalez · October 28, 2014 7:04 pm

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How not to discuss privacy in the age of Facebook

Jimmy Soni · October 27, 2014 9:00 am

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Supreme Court will referee case on police access to hotel guest information

Sean Lengell · October 20, 2014 8:30 pm

Facebook tells DEA to stop creating fake profiles for stings

Facebook tells DEA to stop creating fake profiles for stings

Sean Higgins · October 18, 2014 6:33 pm

It's been a year and a half since Edward Snowden revealed to the world just how much private information the NSA has been collecting on just about everyone, but the government has done little to reform the program. Action has come, however, from Silicon Valley. (iStock Photo)

Silicon Valley stands up to NSA

Scott Rasmussen · October 3, 2014 4:56 pm

Outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder argued that the extensive encryption of mobile phones could hinder law enforcement's ability to protect children from kidnappers and sexual predators by preventing law enforcement from circumventing built-in security features in the case of an emergency. (iStock Photo)

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Holder says mobile encryption is ‘worrisome’ for law enforcement

Paul Gonzalez · October 2, 2014 5:04 pm

A U.S. Postal Service program designed to make it easier for people to forward mail to their new homes has jeopardized the privacy of millions of addresses, according to a government watchdog. (iStock Photo)

Inadequate USPS security compromises 13 million changes-of-address, IG finds

Sarah Bedford · October 1, 2014 6:42 pm

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Facebook’s new ad service reaches beyond the social network

Paul Gonzalez · September 29, 2014 7:58 pm

In this June 5 photo, Edward Snowden participates in a conversation via video at the 2014 Personal Democracy Forum in New York. (AP/Richard Drew)

Surveillance vs. privacy stokes transatlantic tensions in fight against terror groups

Charles Hoskinson · September 28, 2014 9:00 am

"The grants announced will help spur development of new initiatives that aim to protect people and business from online identity theft and fraud," Commerce Secretary Bruce Andrews said. (iStock)

Feds funding efforts to create single Internet password

Sean Higgins · September 20, 2014 9:00 am

A police officer wears a body camera at a rally for Michael Brown on Aug. 30 in Ferguson, Mo. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty images)

After Ferguson, White House touts body cameras for cops

Brian Hughes · September 16, 2014 2:04 pm

A U.S. Predator drone flies over the moon above Kandahar Air Field, in southern Afghanistan in January 2010.ÃÂ Justice Sonia Sotomayor said technological advances like flying drones put us "in that brave new world, and we are capable of being in that Orwellian world, too."ÃÂ (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

Sotomayor: Americans should be more concerned by drones

Luke Rosiak · September 13, 2014 11:01 pm