A recent breach involving nearly 3 billion personal records included many Social Security numbers. Was yours one of them? Here's how to check and what to do to protect yourself.

The Court, sitting as the Full Court, holds that the general and indiscriminate retention of IP addresses does not necessarily constitute a serious interference with fundamental rights.

Harvard professor Shoshana Zuboff wrote a monumental book about the new economic order that is alarming. "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism," reveals how the biggest tech companies deal with our data. How do we regain control of our data? What is surveillance capitalism?

The new directive prohibits data disclosure when law enforcement agencies want to investigate people, healthcare providers, or others seeking reproductive care that is lawful where the care is given.

The new Outlook now appears to be a data collection service for Microsoft’s 801 external partners for targeted advertising.

You can't stop your smart TV from snooping on you entirely, but you can opt out of some of it.

Firefox provides many advantages over Chrome, including being more efficient, so your laptop battery lasts longer. Firefox doesn't track your internet activity for advertising purposes. Firefox has better privacy controls, including container functionality and VPN, enhancing your privacy and security online.

European Union Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders recently told German newspaper 'Welt am Sonntag' that the European Commission is aware of how annoying cookie consent banners have become...

Irish eyes may not be smiling

Sensitive details of charity donors leaked and also sensitive employee information had also been leaked during the attack – including police checks, child support documents, HR incidents, immigration sponsorship details, COVID-19 vaccination credentials, and notably, tax file numbers, passports, and licences.

Plan for Chrome echoes Apple iCloud Private Relay

Dozens join lawsuit alleging Apple AirTags are stalkers’ “weapon of choice.”

Quantum computers may still be years away, but it’s prudent that end-to-end encryption providers are ramping up defences

The latest generation of police surveillance tools are overused, underregulated and often completely wrong, opponents tell Josh Marcus and Alex Woodward

All 25 car brands reviewed raised privacy concerns regarding customer data.

The future of iMessage in the UK had seemed in doubt

In the past I’ve sometimes described Australia as the land where internet policy is completely upside down. Rather than having a system that protects intermediaries from liability for third party c…

More than half of remote meetings are held with Zoom, but that was before privacy concerns disrupted its market. Now, it's time to look at other video conferencing services.

Meta will use your personal data in its large language model Llama 2. But you can fine-tune what data it can access.

Forensic genetic genealogists skirted GEDmatch privacy rules by searching users who explicitly opted out of sharing DNA with law enforcement.