The EU has reached an agreement giving users greater access to their data and control over how the digital information is used by companies. Brussels has...
In 2013 US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden stunned the world with revelations that the massive US spy apparatus was secretly sucking up communications and private data...
Five years after the EU introduced a mammoth data privacy law to rein in big tech, Ireland’s watchdog is its chief enforcer. Critics say this helps...
Apple and Google on Tuesday proposed a tech standard to make sure people get tipped off when their movements are being tracked with Bluetooth devices like...
The top US data privacy regulator on Wednesday accused Facebook-owner Meta of violating its commitments on data privacy and threatened to sanction it heavily if it...
Italy said on Friday it was temporarily blocking ChatGPT over data privacy concerns, the first western country to take such action against the popular artificial intelligence...
Utah on Thursday became the first US state to require social media sites to get parental consent for accounts used by under-18s, placing the burden on...
Consumer organisations on Monday complained that WhatsApp’s promises to be more transparent about privacy policy changes were insufficient, after the EU hailed commitments by the messaging...
Internet privacy and access company Proton said Monday it would provide German broadcaster Deutsche Welle with virtual private network (VPN) services aimed at helping skirt government...
TikTok’s breakneck rise from niche video-sharing app to global social media behemoth has brought plenty of scrutiny, particularly over its links to China. The European Commission...