Vizio settles for $2.2 million in FTC suit over snooping on consumers’ viewing habits

 TV maker Vizio will pay $2.2 million to settle a lawsuit after it was shown that…

Google told to hand over foreign emails in FBI search warrant ruling

 A U.S. judge has ordered Google to hand over emails stored outside the country in order…

WhatsApp tests real-time location sharing in its app

 Facebook may be distancing itself from location-sharing between friends in its own app, but Facebook-owned WhatsApp…

On data protection Brexit means mirroring EU rules, confirms UK minister

 What does Brexit mean for UK data protection rules? Likely mirroring the major part of EU…

WTF is a backdoor?

 For the authorities, encryption is a calamity. Where once they could pry open drawers to find…

Twitter releases national security letters

 Over the last eight months, tech companies have slowly been revealing that they’ve received national security letters…

Trump order strips privacy rights from non-U.S. citizens, could nix EU-US data flows

 An Executive Order signed by U.S. president Donald Trump in his first few days in office…

Facebook rolls out safer logins with a security key

 No one wants to hand over their account to a hacker. Today, Facebook is adding a…