When users have been installing Sennheiser's HeadSetup software, little did they know that they were also installing a root certificate into the Trusted Root CA Certificate store.  To make matters worse, the software was also installing an encrypted version of the certificate's private key that was not as secure as they thought.

Google faces its first challenge under Europe’s strict new data protection rules

Millions of sleep apnea patients rely on CPAP breathing machines to get a good night’s rest. Health insurers use a variety of tactics, including surveillance, to make patients bear the costs. Experts say it’s part of the insurance industry playbook.

The infinite retailer appears to be ushering untold numbers of stealth brands into your life, even as it plans to take over the East Coast. If you like Ween Charm, you’ll love Austin Mill!

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

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 …

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.”

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…

Names, addresses, social security numbers exposed

We are Google employees and we join Amnesty International in calling on Google to cancel project Dragonfly, Google’s effort to create a…

PLAIN TEXT passwords showed up on file-hosting site

A ruling in late October against a little-known French adtech firm that popped up on the national data watchdog’s website earlier this month is causing ripples of excitement to run through privacy watchers in Europe who believe it signals the beginning of the end for creepy online ads. The ex…

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.

Our sensitivity to ads is a major public issue.

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

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

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.

Download Google Container for Firefox. THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL ADDON FROM MOZILLA!
It is a fork of the Facebook Container addon.

Prevent Google from tracking you around the web. The Google Container extension helps you take control and isolate your web activity from Google.

LinkedIn, the social network for the working world with close to 600 million users, has been called out a number of times for how it is able to suggest uncanny connections to you, when it’s not even clear how or why LinkedIn would know enough to make those suggestions in the first place. Now,…

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

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

A smart home that really knows where you live.