San Francisco officials on Tuesday voted to ban the purchase and use of facial recognition technology by city personnel.

The Board of Supervisors approved the...

Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it was tightening rules around its livestreaming feature ahead of a meeting of world leaders aimed at curbing online violence...

Google is opening a privacy focused engineering center in Munich, Germany, in its latest move to beef up its data protection credentials.

CEO Sundar Pichai...

Twitter Inc said on Monday it may have accidentally collected and shared location data of some users accessing its app through Apple devices with an...

Facebook announced on Friday that another Cambridge Analytica may have come to light.

"Today Facebook filed a lawsuit in California state court against Rankwave, a...

Mozilla has an interest in potentially integrating more of Tor into Firefox, for the purposes of providing a Super Private Browsing (SPB) mode for users....

Google plans to improve cookie controls in Chrome web browser, to better protect user privacy and choice on the web.

Chrome intends to make it...

At I/O Google announced a number of privacy and security tools across the company's products and platforms.

Google is making it even easier to find...

Google will soon add a new section on the Chrome browser where users will be able to better control their online browsing privacy, the Wall...

Human-powered content labeling is a growth industry as companies seek to harness data for AI training and other purposes. But it is also raising privacy...