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The Tor Project says the layoffs were required to keep its service available.

Do you use a VPN for internet privacy and safety? Maybe it's worth considering.

Under Armour breached, details of over 150 million MyFitnessPal users leaked.

The Email Privacy Act was just passed in the US House of Representatives unanimously and requires a warrant for old emails.

Scramble your signal, block your camera and send confusing sound to your microphone with this crazy smartphone and all-in-one desktop security device.

Third-party advertising SDK behind hundreds of iOS app privacy violations.

Microsoft assures Windows 10 users there's nothing to worry about regarding privacy.

Spotify apologizes for privacy changes.

Chrome has downloaded and installed a listening protocol on your computer in the background without us noticing.

More than 9 out of 10 Americans believe data control is important, though doubtful it is a realistic goal anymore.

Growing number of London airports will soon have drones used to help conduct surveillance for airport safety.

The director of the NSA will continue building backdoors into IT companies' products.

Google publishes open letter to FBI regarding its surveillance activities.

Today is National Data Privacy Day, and the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) has some data for you

The DEA has operated a massive license plate reader program since 2008.

Interest among drone use by police agencies in SF Bay Area have residents, protesters concerned.

Majority of home Internet of Things (IoT) purchases based on word-of-mouth and in-store referrals, research says.

Panasonic get behind this all-green sustainable city. Brilliant idea, but is it delving too far into the publics privacy?

UN General Assembly passes digital privacy resolution.

German researchers find out that some of our mobile signal towers are leaking information into all who wish to see it.

Privacy experts don't seem to have a happy outlook for the future of Internet privacy for users across the world.

A new report indicates Apple iOS care more about privacy and security users more than Google Android.

The FBI wanted to get access to a hotel guest's room without a warrant, so they did the next best thing: posed as Internet technicians.

FTC is speaking with Apple regarding Apple Watch health data privacy.

Automakers in the United States have given the FTC a letter regarding customer privacy.

Hacker who stole nude photographs of Paris Hilton in 2005 is headed back to prison, but not before apologizing to the hotel heiress turned actress/DJ.

Don't expect the GCHQ to change its course on snooping and surveillance, with new chief saying privacy was never an "absolute right" for users.

Apple CEO Tim Cook met with Chinese government officials to discuss privacy concerns as it wants to expand Apple Pay into China.

Anonabox hits Kickstarter, and for $45 it will anonymize your Internet traffic, routing your Internet connection through the Tor network.

Verizon and the FCC reach a settlement, and the company will pay a $7.4 million fine to end privacy investigation.

Over 17,000 people have joined a lawsuit against Facebook accusing it of assisting the NSA's spying programme.

Citing surveillance concerns in a post-Snowden revelations world, Russia now wants to see source code from Apple and SAP.

Russia's Ministry of Internal Affairs is offering a fat wad of cash to whoever can successfully de-anonymize The Onion Router.

This shouldn't surprise you, but the US government has said that online storage isn't protected by the Fourth Amendment.

Security experts bought some second-hand smartphones, and were able to extract a lot of data, including selfies of those showing off their 'hardware'

Google's legal chief, David Drummond, has detailed in a statement how Google has been approaching Europe's new right to be forgotten privacy law.

The properties of household names like Tony Blair have started to appear as digitally altered or removed altogether on Google's mapping service.

In a landmark ruling, a man in Ireland has been made to pay a fine after being found guilty of maliciously defacing a woman's Facebook profile.

Britain's Information Commissioner's Office warned companies using wearable tech must still obey UK privacy law.

Now that a European court has ruled web users have the right to be forgotten, Google faces a massive backlog of search removal requests.

Vodafone report outlines the way that governments request information for it and says that phones in 29 countries where it operates are tapped.

A private server that hopes to secure SMEs against prying eyes has cleared its $1m target in just over an hour.

Irritated by the potential pervasiveness of Google Glass, one member of Stop The Cyborgs has built a program that stops Google Glass from connecting at all.

China is planning on launching a month-long offensive on instant messaging users who are spreading "rumors" of violence.

Facebook has just begun making your new status updates more private and setting them viewable only to friends by default.

Facebook is currently testing a new anonymous login feature that limits the amount of data shared with the social network.

Google pledges to stop data mining student email accounts for data that was used to target ads at students outside of school.

The EFF and privacy experts are concerned over the growing FBI NGI facial recognition program, which will have more than 50 million photos by end of 2015.