In a major U-turn, the UK is ditching the way its current coronavirus-tracing app works and shifting to a model based on technology provided by Apple and Google.

The police in China are collecting blood samples from men and boys from across the country to build a genetic map of its roughly 700 million males, giving the authorities a powerful new tool for their emerging high-tech surveillance state.

PWC is under fire for developing a facial recognition tool for City firms to monitor home-working staff when they are away from their computer screens.

A new report by IE University’s Center for the Governance of Change (CGC) highlights profound shifts in European sentiments to technological change, particularly in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. To discuss the findings, a live webinar was held on June 1st which included a panel of experts and research contributors.

A new Covid-19 detection tool has appeared in the device settings Android and iOS as part of an update of their operating systems.

After the ACLU said a community college in Michigan was violating its students’ First Amendment rights, the school partially relented.

Washington (CNN)The largest theft of data in CIA history happened because a specialized unit within the agency was so focused on building cyber weapons that an employee took advantage of "woefully lax" security and gave secret hacking tools to WikiLeaks, according to an internal report released on Tuesday.

Microsoft, IBM, Google and Amazon have all hit a “stop” or “pause” button on their facial recognition technology because of fears that it could prejudice people of colour.

Civil rights groups have long for a moratorium on Rekognition

US policymakers too often argue that regulation is about geopolitical competition. But algorithms have perpetuated harm and inequality at home.

Apple has an eerie message for the looters who have pillaged its stores during recent protests: We’re watching you.

GRU, Russia’s foreign intelligence service, has reportedly dispatched agents to inspect the undersea internet cables that connect Europe and North America.

It used to be that server logs were just boring utility files whose most dramatic moments came when someone forgot to write a script to wipe out the old ones and so they were left to accumulate until they filled the computer’s hard-drive and crashed the server.

Russia has repeatedly denied allegations of Moscow’s involvement in a hacking attack on the German parliament’s servers in 2015, pointing to the absence of any relevant evidence.

In a landmark decision, the German Constitutional Court has ruled that mass surveillance of telecommunications outside of Germany conducted on foreign nationals is unconstitutional. Thanks to the chief legal counsel, Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF), this a major victory for global civil liberties, but especially those that live and work in Europe. Many will now be protected after lackluster 2016 surveillance reforms continued to authorize the surveillance on EU states and institutions for the purpose of “foreign policy and security,” and permitted the BND to collaborate with the NSA.

For nearly a decade MI5 knowingly mishandled data collected through surveillance in violation of statutory safeguards. The service also failed to inform the UK government watchdog IPCO of these unlawful errors. The safeguards and oversight system contained in the Investigatory Powers Act of 2016 is thereby little more than window dressing.

Ο Red Cross and other organizations call them governments in alliance to stop the cyber attacks in hospitals.

`Cybercriminals are exploiting fears and chaos caused by coronavirus, says security firm

Researchers are crawling the internet for photos of people wearing face masks to improve facial recognition algorithms