US law enforcement has warrantless access to many money transfersA low-profile surveillance program is raising major privacy concerns.By J. Fingas, 01.18.2023
Meta sues surveillance company for allegedly scraping more than 600,000 accountsIt says Voyager Labs used more than 38,000 fake Facebook user accounts to collect data from profiles, groups and pages.By K. Holt, 01.13.2023
ByteDance fired four employees who accessed US journalists' TikTok dataThe workers were allegedly attempting to track down the sources of leaks to the reporters.By K. Holt, 12.22.2022
Meta faces lawsuit for harvesting financial data from tax prep websites'The Markup' previously reported that some tax prep services had been sending Meta financial information.By M. Moon, 12.03.2022
Meta fined €265 million over Facebook data scraping in the EUIreland's regulator has fined Meta nearly €1 billion over the last 18 months. By S. Dent, 11.28.2022
Twitter data leak exposes over 5.4 million accountsThe dump includes private phone numbers and email addresses. By S. Dent, 11.28.2022
Tax prep websites have been sending sensitive financial data to FacebookMeta's Pixel is once again harvesting private data without users' knowledge.By J. Fingas, 11.22.2022
Biden signs executive order to protect personal data transfers between the US and EUThe framework is meant to guard against surveillance.By J. Fingas, 10.07.2022
A data-sharing agreement between the US and UK is now in effectThe countries say the pact will help combat serious crimes, but privacy advocates have raised concerns.By K. Holt, 10.03.2022
Samsung says hackers obtained some customer data in newly disclosed breachThe company says Social Security numbers and payment details weren't accessed.By K. Holt, 09.02.2022
Oracle is reviewing TikTok's algorithms and content moderation systemsThe aim of the reviews is to ensure the 'models have not been manipulated in any way.'By K. Holt, 08.16.2022
Manchester City shows off a smart scarf that tracks fan reactionsCisco plans to bring it to fans next season.By I. Bonifacic, 07.27.2022
Is DALL-E's art borrowed or stolen? Creative AIs can't be creative without our art.By D. Cooper, 07.27.2022
US and UK joint data access agreement goes into effect on October 3rdLaw enforcement in each country will be able to ask the other for user internet data. By S. Dent, 07.22.2022
Records reveal the scale of Homeland Security's phone location data purchasesAn ACLU investigation found that officials bought over 336,000 data points.By J. Fingas, 07.18.2022
EU consumer groups file complaint against Google over 'deceptive' sign-up practices'You are subjected to surveillance by design and by default.'By S. Dent, 06.30.2022
Russia fines Airbnb, Twitch and Pinterest for not storing data locallyEach company will need to pay penalties of 2 million roubles.By I. Bonifacic, 06.28.2022
Recommended Reading: How 'Top Gun: Maverick' puts you inside an F-18The week's best writing on technology and more. By B. Steele, 05.28.2022
Engadget Podcast: Clearview AI’s facial recognition is on the ropesPlus, we say RIP to Seth Green's NFT.By D. Hardawar, 05.27.2022
Report finds remote learning apps collected and sold kids’ dataThe majority of services Human Rights Watch reviewed actively infringed on the privacy rights of their young users. By I. Bonifacic, 05.25.2022