The attack disrupted the district’s websites and remote learning programs, as well as its grading and email systems, officials said.

One of the first national coronavirus contacts-tracing apps to be launched in Europe is being suspended in Norway after the country’s data protection authority raised concerns that the software, called “Smittestopp,” poses a disproportionate threat to user privacy — including

Malicious actors have been using Google Chrome extensions to deliver spyware, and recent extension was downloaded over 32 million times. This breach highlights how big tech is failing to protect users.

AI systems are being used to detect whether people are standing less than 6 feet apart during the COVID-19 pandemic, but concerns are being raised around whether temperature tracking is. or could become a serious privacy concern.

While digital surveillance is being used to curb coronavirus, it also has the potential to be used long after the pandemic to monitor individuals' movement.

Dozens of companies — largely unregulated, little scrutinized — are logging the movements of tens of millions of people with mobile phones and storing the information in gigantic data files. The Times Privacy Project obtained one such files.

A new law would give the country’s 1.3 billion people more power over data collected by companies but allow the government to exempt itself from the rules.

More colleges are taking advantage of big data technology to keep tabs on students and find ways to intervene, but it's gotten to the point for tracking student locations on campus, raising privacy concerns.

Hackers are actively exploiting a critical weakness found in most mobile phones to surreptitiously track the location of users and possibly carry out other nefarious actions, researchers warned.The attacks work by exploiting an interface intended to be used solely by cell carr

Dorsey’s account began posting racial epithets, profanities and bomb threats. A company spokesman confirmed it was hacked.