Amid growing concern by advocacy groups that Facebook’s “tag suggestions” face-recognition feature may compromise consumer privacy, Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen has requested a meeting with officials at the social…
The FBI is set to release its new domestic investigations manual with revisions that give agents greater powers, including greater leeway to search databases.
Dozens of reporters flooded a state office building in Juneau today to cart away banker’s boxes stuffed with nearly 24,000 pages of emails released by Alaska state officials from former…
A new Facebook feature that automatically offers “Tag Suggestions” about identifying individuals in photos is being scrutinized by European Union data-protection regulators concerned that it could violate privacy rules, reports…
Likely due to their falling for phishing schemes, a number of Gmail users are subject to having their email read by China-based hackers, Google Inc. is warning.
Those black boxes used to hide redacted information in court documents filed with Pacer don’t always work, according to a study that suggests tens of thousands of the online filings…
Updated: A couple who purchased a laptop computer from an Aaron’s Rental Co. store in Casper, Wyo., has filed a federal lawsuit seeking class action status against the 1,500-outlet North…
A federal lawsuit filed today in Brooklyn, N.Y., contends Facebook Inc. is violating state advertising law by allowing minors to “like” products on the social networking site without getting parental…
Witold Walczak of the Pennsylvania ACLU with MaryJo Miller, who filed suit against the Wyoming County DA after he threatened to prosecute her daughter and two other teens. Photo by AP Photo/Matt Rourke
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The U.S. Justice Department is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a federal appeals court decision requiring police to get a warrant before attaching a global positioning device to…