A Facebook tool designed to inform users about the advertisers trying to target them through the platform withholds key information from consumers that get too curious, even locking them out when they use it too many times, according to a report in Bloomberg Businessweek.

Facebook reportedly donated $200,000 to combat a data-privacy ballot initiative in California that would allow consumers to ban companies from sharing or selling their personal data.

Facebook allowing political campaigns to mine data has only recently become controversial. Obama’s use of Facebook data is an open secret.

The Germany government wants to force tech firms and car manufacturers to hand security services hidden digital access to private cars, computers, phones and more.

Despite the fact that search engines such as Google keep user search data for long periods of time, the data retention does not improve search result quality, according to a report.

LONDON (AP) — Britain plans to strengthen the online “right to be forgotten” with a law making social media companies delete personal information on request.

A San Francisco mother has filed a lawsuit against Disney, claiming that their “Princess Palace Pets” app was used to illegally track her daughter.

Two researchers have issued a cyber-security warning after they were able to discover the web habits of individuals including the internet porn they browse.

Twitter have introduced a series of new privacy setting changes, including an automatic location tracker that informs advertisers where you’ve been.

Sex toy company We-Vibe has been ordered to pay out nearly $3 million after it was revealed that a “smart vibrator” was secretly collecting intimate data.

Wide-ranging surveillance powers which passed into law yesterday will undermine our “fundamental rights” and have “no place in a modern democracy”, the inventor of the internet, Tim Berners-Lee, has said.

Hackers penetrated the Friend Finder Network in October in one of the largest known personal data breach in history, with over 412 million accounts compromised.

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – WhatsApp has temporarily suspended giving parent company Facebook information about users in Europe for ad targeting, responding to concerns there over privacy, a source close to the matter said.

Researchers have developed a new online tool that simplifies detailed privacy policies so that users can easily establish what data is being collected from them.

Republican presidential contender Jeb Bush announced his “budget neutral” education plan on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, as he also lamented income inequality, asserted that education is a “civil rights issue,” and advocated for more opportunities for pre-K education for

The internet use and social media activity of every person in Britain will be made available to councils, the taxman and numerous other public bodies in new spy laws published this week. The new powers in the Investigatory Powers Bill are intended

The U.S. Senate has passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) by a vote of 74-21, despite vociferous objections from civil liberties groups who say the bill will afford the government even more powers to collect the private online data of ordinary citizens.

Today, if law enforcement wants to read our physical mail or search our safe deposit box, they need a search warrant. This fundamental right to privacy is established in the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. But currently, national and international privacy protection is not adequately applied to email and data stored on cloud computing servers. This needs to change—and a solution is at hand, if Congress will only move forward.

Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) introduced a bill Thursday that would return control of student education records back to parents and their children.

In trying to clear the air, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush may have gone too far and released personal information — including Social Security numbers — contained in emails he exchanged while in office 15 years ago.

The battle to prevent police searches of smartphones, computers or tablets without a warrant has finally gained a key supporter: the tech industry.