The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), Europe's main data-protection watchdog, is attacked by leading privacy advocates for taking too long to wrap up probes into...

The lawyers reprsenting Facebook users have asked a judge to approve a $550 million settlement in their class-action lawsuit that claimed the Facebook illegally gathered...

Xiaomi has released software updates for its web browsers, adding an option in incognito mode for all users to switch on/off the aggregated data collection....

Responding to recent online articles regarding Xiaomi’s privacy policy, Xiaomi says that there are "several inaccuracies and misinterpretations" about the company's process for browser data...

Germany on Sunday announced that it would back the approach supported by Apple and Google for tracing coronavirus infections, abandoning a home-grown alternative it supported...

Australia on Sunday launched COVIDSafe, a contact-tracing mobile app part of the country's work to slow the spread of COVID-19.

The app could help the...

Verizon Media has introduced a new email marketing feature called “View Time Optimization,” which tracks and alerts advertisers the moment you’re looking at your email...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Thursday revived U.S. litigation accusing Facebook of violating users’ privacy rights by tracking their...

Facebook Inc. is expanding the user location data that the company offers to researchers and non-profits trying to study the outbreak of the Covid-19 coronavirus....

The European Data Protection Supervisor calls for a pan-European model “COVID-19 mobile application”, coordinated at EU level and in coordination with the World Health Organisation,...