A new system uses software to dictate quarantines — and appears to send personal data to police, in a troubling precedent for automated social control.

3somes, Gay Daddy Bear, and Herpes Dating are among the nine services that leaked the data of hundreds of thousands of users.

Privacy concerns remain largely unaddressed in proposed Chinese facial recognition standards.

Police in York and Peel regions are in the process of buying the technology, which has been shown to be racially biased.

Η Google, Facebook and Twitter stop processing data requests from Hong Kong government as they reconsider a new law on safety entered into force on 1 July. Google has stopped all processing activities data just came into force last Wednesday.

Antivirus applications violate privacy by recording more data than they need, putting users at risk.

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.