An Australian hacker has spent thousands of hours hacking the DRM that medical device manufacturers put on CPAP machines to create a free tool that lets patients modify their treatment.

This year, learn what tech comes with privacy included, using Mozilla's buyer's guide for connected gadgets.

WhatsApp is the only messaging app among those with over a billion monthly active users, which hasn’t started actual monetisation ...

Our sensitivity to ads is a major public issue.

China is home to the world’s largest network of CCTV cameras — more than 170 million — and its police have adopted Google Glass-like “smart specs” to seek out suspects in crowds, but now its surveillance efforts have hit a new level with technology that can apparently …

With nothing but a smartphone and some clever computation, researchers can exploit ambient signals to track individuals in their own homes.

System dubbed ‘the capability’ processes Australians’ information whether they are crime suspects or not

Retailers, wireless carriers and others crunch data to determine what shoppers are worth for the long term. The score can determine the prices you pay, the products and ads you see and the perks you receive. “Not all customers deserve a company’s best efforts.”

The perpetrators told the BBC Russian Service they had details from a total of 120 million accounts.

A smart home that really knows where you live.

An idle Android smartphone sends user data back to Google servers nearly ten times more frequently as an Apple device sends data back to Apple servers.

Regular readers of this blog will know that I went through a process of de-Googling my life a while ago. For the most part I think the process was pretty successful, however there were some things that I couldn’t replace. Fast forward a year, and after a lot of trial and error I’m ready to…

TL;DR: An undocumented API in Google home devices is easily exploitable. This command will reboot any on your local network: nmap –open -p 8008 192.168.1.0/24 | awk ‘/is up/ {print up};…

In a new study of the most downloaded apps for children ages 5 and younger, researchers found advertising in almost all of them.

Overall, 24 percent of U.S. users have deleted the app while 42 percent have taken a break of several weeks or more.

The Copyright Office has spoken: consumers now have permission to break DRM and software locks in the name of repair. A huge victory for the #RightToRepair movement.

Hi-tech drones that look and move like real birds have already flown over restive Xinjiang region