Facebook maintains that it doesn’t need to make changes to its web-tracking services in order to comply with California’s new privacy law, setting up a potential early clash over the measure set to take effect Jan. 1.

Flying in and out of Beijing may soon be a Minority Report-like experience.

Reports about the toy store using cameras to track shoppers caused an uproar, but the companies behind the tech insist their systems are trained to ignore kids.

In the NulledCast hackers livestream the harassment of Ring camera owners after accessing their devices. Hundreds of people can listen.

Prof Noel Sharkey says systems so infected with biases they cannot be trusted

When should data be shared? Now seems as good a time as any to reflect, as we approach the season of giving, on such a question. The EU first adopted data protection rules to facilitate the free flow of personal data across the internal market and to safeguard…

Feds tell Google to search four areas for suspected arsonists' phones. Google gives it 1,500 device IDs.

Companies such as Megvii thrived on government contracts for facial recognition, but they face challenges from US sanctions to cheaper tech.

Personal banking information for tens of thousands of Facebook Inc. workers in the U.S. was compromised last month when a thief stole several corporate hard drives from an employee’s car.

Nel 2019 ben 174 Comuni presenti in diverse aree del mondo sono stati oggetto di attacchi ransomware andati a buon fine. Il dato si deve a un’attenta analisi della società di sicurezza Kaspersky, che come ogni anno in questo periodo redige il suo “Security…

Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems' seven-year battle against Facebook reaches a crucial point on Dec. 17 when an adviser to Europe's top court will issue his view on whether tools used by companies to transfer data abroad are legal or not.

An experiment by Kneron shows facial recognition is less secure than many think.

Server e computer della città spenti, usato l’account social di avviso degli uragani

AI reformers are divided: Some want to fix the algorithms, others aim to keep humans making decisions.

America needs more and better protections over personal data, says Lawrence Cappello of the University of Alabama

Facebook confirmed a vehicle break-in involving hard drives that affects around 29,000 employees in the United States. Personal information such as names, bank account numbers, and the last four digits of social security numbers are on the unencrypted hard…

There’s little scientific basis to emotion recognition technology, so it should be banned from use in decisions that affect people’s lives, says research institute AI Now in its annual report. A booming market: Despite the lack of evidence that machines can…

Telegram hacks in Russia, Senate encryption hearings, and more in the week’s top security news.