A newly declassified report confirms that the government has unprecedented insight into our lives through smartphones, cars, web browsing, and other tech.
The CFPB is warning Americans who use apps like Venmo, CashApp, and PayPal about the potential losses that could occur if a financial crisis happens.
Finback Investment Partners, Bush's private equity firm, was in negotiations to sell NSO spyware to U.S. police.
Swedish VPN provider Mullvad says that national police came to its headquarters and demanded user data but didn't get what they wanted.
The encrypted email service has more features than ever and surpassed 100 million users worldwide. Gizmodo talked to the CEO about what's new and what's next.
Only five of the 18 routers sampled had been properly wiped, while nine had sensitive company and customer data.
Less than a week after the White House blacklisted a controversial spyware vendor, a federal agency negotiated a secret contract with it via a front company.
Big tech and big law enforcement have partnered up to share your personal information, but which countries have the closest ties?
A data broker that previously sold data-pilfering tools to the U.S. military has received tens of thousands of dollars from the FBI for similar services.
DEA agents reportedly hid one of the small tracking devices inside an intercepted package thought to be headed to an illicit drug operation.
A Meta executive spent a year under surveillance by the Greek government, in what appears to be the first targeting of a U.S. citizen by "Predator" spyware.
Two men are accused of having carried out cyberstalking and harassment campaigns targeted at people throughout the web with bogus data requests.
Was a major home security company just hacked? So far, Ring is denying the cybercriminals' claims.
People noticed when Discord quietly removed privacy promises as it announced AI integrations. Then Discord added them back.
The Federal Reserve canceled a Zoom conference citing "technical difficulties" after pornographic images were displayed by an unknown user.
After fining GoodRx for the same offense, the Federal Trade Commission continues its crackdown on health privacy violators with BetterHelp.
TikTok’s software development kits could undermine Joe Biden's order to stop internet traffic flowing from federal employees' phones to TikTok within 30 days.
An unsettling incident at an airport in Seattle earlier this year can be attributed to a minor data hiccup, investigators have found.
Social media explodes with conspiracy theories that a metal sphere that washed up in Japan is some sort of UFO or spy balloon.
The game publisher behind Call of Duty and other favorites has publicly admitted to a breach of its systems, but it reportedly kept mum with workers.
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