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With the "ubiquitous surveillance" that 5G will unleash, people should rethink privacy, anonymity, safety, wellbeing, and fundamental freedoms, according to...

Google is again changing the game on  the way we're tracked around the web, and the shift could have significant...

Amid the deluge of news about third-party apps tracking users without their consent and profiting by selling their private information,...

UK-based Ada Lovelace Institute is gathering evidence on the legal, ethical, social, and health challenges of deploying digital health passports and...

In the face of a global pandemic, an un-elected body of global bureaucrats based in Davos, Switzerland has asked the...

Four former commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) testify that the US needs a robust federal privacy law, with...

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is not consistently notifying travelers about its use of facial recognition technology or privacy options...

"The future's gonna be weird," said Elon Musk as he calmly described how Neuralink could one day allow people to...

The Senate votes unanimously to ban popular video app TikTok from government devices with the passing of the "No TikTok...

The idea of an Internet Bill of Rights has been floating around for years, but recent accusations of big tech...

The majority of government sponsored COVID-19 tracing apps are improperly secured, and in their rush to market, app developers leave...

A new report from encryption platform Wickr infers that businesses operating in countries whose governments support contact tracing are turning...

A National Security Commission on AI white paper says that contact tracing apps can provide value in helping to control...

Privacy, the freedom to access and share information, the freedom to peacefully assemble, and the freedom of expression are all...

Big tech companies are collecting enormous amounts of data on the movement of private citizens while censoring free speech and...

Massive data surveillance, warrantless wiretapping, and the weaponization of intelligence agencies against private citizens were all conducted in the name...

The amount of data being tracked and shared between tech companies, health organizations, and government bodies in response to COVID-19...

Several countries around the world have started to analyze the location data from citizens’ mobile devices as a means to...

Filing a patent is an important step towards building the product that you want while providing legal protections to you...

Carnival, for most Brazilians, is synonymous with samba, sweat, and caipirinhas. Some of the best parties of the year take...