privacy rights

A privacy rights agency in California will review the practice by vehicle manufacturers to collect private information from drivers, officials recently announced. The California Privacy Protection Agency 2020’s enforcement division ...

Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) allows the United States’ 18 federal intelligence agencies to ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has given rise to tech-based surveillance, opening up opportunities for the government and corporations to ...

An expansive federal law proposal to combat harmful online content is not only “fundamentally flawed” but also violates ...

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been widely promoting a police-developed anti-fraud app that functions as spyware since ...

The installation of video cameras at over half the intersections in Richmond, B.C., is raising concerns around surveillance ...

Personal information about COVID-19 patients in China was recently leaked online, sparking a heated debate about privacy. Two ...

Collecting personal information from internet users through social media apps in order to promote certain products to those ...

Officials at U.S. ports of entry may not search international travelers’ electronic devices in the absence of suspicion ...

NEW YORK— A U.S. senator is calling for a federal investigation into an outdoor advertising company's latest effort ...

Employers in Europe now have the right to keep tabs on the private emails and text messages that ...

France's data protection agency rejected Google's appeal of its decision to require the search-engine to apply Europe's "Right ...

Privacy advocates say a jump in the number of privacy related complaints in 2014 is proof that Canadians ...

The Illinois legislature passed a school privacy rights law that went into effect on Jan. 1, 2014, which ...

Over 30 organizations have formed a coalition to protect Canadians against government intrusion online.

The Epoch Times asked Bay Area locals: "In the light of the NSA leak, how much privacy are ...

Skype, the popular voice-over-Internet and messaging service, is said to have illegally handed over a teenage user's personal ...

A hearing on four pieces of legislation which, if passed, would impact how the NYPD operates is scheduled ...

A digital privacy watchdog in Germany plans legal action against Facebook over its facial recognition feature said to ...

YouTube announced it is launching a feature to give uploaders the ability to blur the faces of people ...

This Sunday residents are invited to join the annual Shred Fest and protect their identities, Organized by the ...

A joint letter from more than 30 organizations is calling on the Senate to revise parts of the ...

Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart announced $500,000 in funding for 11 research projects on Wednesday.

Google is once again on the hot seat for collecting user data through it’s Street View system.

Legislation to be announced in May is proposing that the U.K. grant one of its intelligence agencies additional ...

After a divisive vote in Parliament on Wednesday, Sweden became one of the last countries in the European ...

The White House on Feb. 23 unveiled a “privacy bill of rights” and called on Internet companies to ...