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The U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday that law enforcement officials need a court-approved warrant before using a GPS device to track a suspect. Justices offered different opinions regarding how Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures apply to the balance between law ...
As far as SOPA's critics are concerned, "if something works, break it" seemed to be the motto of the U.S. Congress last week as it rushed to pass a controversial bill that security experts maintained could throw a bomb into the gearbox of the Internet. The Stop Online Piracy Act, filed in the U.S. H...
Google has expanded its search engine to include personal results, profiles and Google+ pages related to a given search. The new search capability, called "Search Plus Your World," was announced Tuesday. A search can now turn up relevant Google+ posts and photos from the searcher's friends as well a...
Facebook has agreed to improve privacy protections in Europe over the next six months, after a three-month audit by Ireland's data protection agency found the social network lacking in some areas. Users will be given more information about how Facebook and third-party app providers handle their info...
Facebook recently began rolling out its Timeline feature, which will replace the social networking site's traditional user profile. Everything ever posted on a user's page will be included in Timeline. Members have seven days to review everything that appears on their Timelines before anyone else ca...
Speculation regarding the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's ties with troubled cellphone software firm Carrier IQ was sparked recently by the bureau's rejection of a request made under the Freedom of Information Act. The request aimed to uncover what records and information the bureau has on Ca...
A glitch in Facebook's code briefly let people access private photographs of other members. The bug was discovered by a member of an online bodybuilding forum. This led to people accessing personal images belonging to other other members. Even the site's founder and CEO wasn't immune -- Mark Zuckerb...
What a week it's been in the cybersecurity business! On Monday, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology released a report that called for the establishment of a body with nationwide authority to oversee the securing of the United States' national power grid. Last week, Congress began working to pu...
WikiLeaks launched a new spinoff website called "Spy Files" on Thursday that will publish documents about surveillance and privacy violations worldwide. The site has a page displaying a map of the world indicating where various violations are occurring, and it lists companies involved in monitoring ...
Software from the company Carrier IQ that's preinstalled on many mobile devices sold in the United States is capable of recording many of the activities performed on those phones and potentially relaying the data back to carriers, according to security researcher Trevor Eckhart. Eckhart refers to th...
The European Union may begin an overhaul of its 1995 Data Protection Directive next year to provide one single unified body of legislation on this issue. EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding will propose the reform in January, according to spokesperson Matthew Newman. The legislation will be table...
Next year is an election year, and there is no doubt we will have plenty of examples of politicians who should have had their hormones either surgically removed or had someone wiser make their decisions for them. On the other hand, the technology market has certainly had its fill of scandals over th...
Losing a laptop may be less painful now than it used to be because the cost of replacing the physical device has trickled downward recently. You can now pick up a decent workhorse for three or four hundred dollars at a big-box retailer. Big deal if you lose it. What hasn't become less valuable, thou...
Something as simple and common as using an online pseudonym could technically be a violation of the law if the United States Department of Justice gets what it wants. The DoJ on Tuesday asked Congress to impose harsher penalties on various types of cyberactivities, including cybercrime. The goal, Do...
Nearly two years after consumer advocacy groups filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over Facebook's privacy policies, the social network and the FTC are close to an agreement, according to a recent report. The deal between the company and the commission will reportedly require F...
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