Building a successful security software company is notoriously hard to get right over the long haul. Computer security is a fast-moving target. You still need anti-virus software, for instance, but it won’t necessarily keep you safe.

Users who haven't adjusted their privacy settings will see the experimental dino-message whenever they attempt to share a status update, link or photo that would otherwise be visible to everyone, hopefully eliminating accidental public postings.

An end to the 'bulk collection' of phone records won't stop the NSA from snooping on us onlineLast week in the Hague, Barack Obama seemed to have suddenly remembered the oath he swore on his inauguration as president that stuff about preserving,...

Security protections have been tightened at many of the major online services, as firms like Google and Microsoft pledge to protect their users against unwanted prying eyes.

The company agrees to display competing services in the same manner it displays results for its own services. [Read more]
    

Canada’s super-secret cyberspy agency will be on the hot seat Monday, expected to face tough questioning from the Senate’s defence committee after revelations it allegedly spied and digitally tracked Canadians through free Wi-Fi zones in major...

The NSA's secrets have been leaking like a faucet since June. Now, after months of consideration, U.S. President Barack Obama is going to do something about it
Obama plans to deliver a speech on government surveillance on Friday at 11 a.m.

Target Corp and Neiman Marcus are not the only U.S.

Phone companies are against an NSA advisory panel recommendation that would have them -- instead of the NSA -- store phone metadata for an extended time, reports The Washington Post. [Read more]
    

2013 was an extraordinary year for those of us who are interested in privacy and data protection.

Image Credit: IsaacMao / FlickrAn MIT researcher claims he’s quantified some of the troubling self-censorship civil liberties advocates worried would result from public knowledge of mass spying.

New documents released by the FBI show that the Bureau is well on its way toward its goal of a fully operational face recognition database by this summer.
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Gabriel Weinberg launched DuckDuckGo as a search engine that puts privacy first, rather than collecting data for advertisers and security agenciesDuckDuckGo bills itself as "the search engine that doesn't track you".

French consumer protection group UFC-Que Choisir has issued Facebook, Twitter and Google with a summons to appear before the Paris High Court, which it has asked to strike out what it says are unfair or illegal clauses in the companies' user...

Spy tools, whether designed by intelligence agencies, cyber crooks or internet creeps, can turn your camera on without illuminating the indicator light. Online tutorials even instruct neophyte hackers on how to hijack your webcam.

In this exclusive extract from his book on Edward Snowden, Luke Harding gives the inside take on what happened when British agents ordered the destruction of Guardian computers Since David Cameron became prime minister, Alan Rusbridger had spent...

The report from the President's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies on the U.S. government's mass spying—domestically and around the globe— has much that's good in it.

Civil liberties committee report demands end to indiscriminate collection of personal data by British and US agencies Mass surveillance programmes used by the US and Britain to spy on people in Europe have been condemned in the "strongest possible...

It's not just governments. Companies such as Google and Facebook spy on us too. We have clicked through to their 'free' digital services at the cost of sacrificing our privacy. So how do we get out?