Privacy and Data Protection

Law enforcement investigations can be pretty tedious. Hence why the ATF is seeking an automated database to quickly identify you and who you know.

Freedom of Information request reveals extent of device loss problem at public broadcaster

Hyper-Targeting is the next frontier in 21st century marketing. Marketers are gleaning and buying more and more personal information about consumers.

The companies that sell information about how much money you make — and whether you’re pregnant, divorced, or trying to lose weight — are facing new scrutiny.

The United States and Europe are struggling to bridge a divide in the way their citizens are shielded against the use of their personal data.

Newspaper reports say Google bypassed privacy protections on the Safari web browser.

Organisations must do more to ensure data secure on employee-owned devices

The shockwaves could be felt across the rich and wealthy globally but will there actually be any follow-up?

Social network promises Android skin will not collect additional data

Anonymized mobile phone location data produces a GPS fingerprint that can easily be used to identify a user based on little more than tracking the pings a phone makes to cell towers, a new study shows.

Small and medium-sized businesses to be hit hardest, says Lord McNally

The real revolution is the Revolution of Consciousness. Join the Global Shift in Awareness!

Biometric data-gathering — from palm scans to facial-recognition software — is all the rage. But consumer advocates worry that the public may be losing privacy.

Company strikes deal in US over Street View practices

Unencrypted media containing sensitive data has never been recovered