Privacy & Security
The attackers were looking for employment records for the federal government.
We don’t talk a lot about the Internet, just like we don’t talk about telephone wires or traditional TV airwaves anymore.
The emergence of self-driving and connected cars is shaking up the pecking order between carmakers and their suppliers.
The National Security Agency has at least two other legal grounds for collecting Americans’ private information.
Snapchat’s young co-founder and CEO joined the Re/code bosses onstage at Code for a conversation about issues that won’t go away anytime soon.
The Senate has passed legislation renewing controversial provisions of the Patriot Act while imposing significant new restrictions on government surveillance.
What hasn’t expired (most of it), what has (a few parts), and whether the government has less surveillance power now.
Other members of Congress did a lot more to build a consensus to rein in the National Security Agency.
The court ruled 8-1 in favor of Anthony Elonis, who served prison time for posting a series of statements on the social media site in 2010 after his wife left him.
The Senate is moving forward with compromise legislation called the USA Freedom Act.
“Companies need to learn how to catch people in the act of doing something and affect the outcome.”
The Senate refused to extend the NSA’s mass surveillance of phone records by even a single day.
Edward Snowden cares about transparency so much he answered a question about John Oliver’s penis.
Thanks in part to a filibuster by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), three controversial provisions of the Patriot Act are going to expire on Sunday evening.
She’s joining the team led by Katherine Tassi, former head of data protection at Facebook.
The senator wants to shut down a controversial NSA program that collects every American’s phone records.
Many of the same technology executives who are trying to capitalize on the trafficking of our kids’ private information are striving to keep their own information private.
The legislation could end the National Security Agency’s practice of spying on every American’s phone records.
The ruling will intensify debate in Congress about whether to reauthorize key provisions of the Patriot Act that expire at the end of the month.
Former investment banker Mark Fields will lead the commercial side of the secure messaging company.
The cash-and-stock deal is slightly smaller than last year’s acquisition of Distimo.
Facebook updated Login so you can choose which info to hand over to third party apps.
I worry about well-intentioned yet poorly considered laws ultimately restricting our right to record, remember, and share our memories.
There are more to come, but here are some great voices onstage at our annual tech and media conference.
Sneakernet is making a comeback with the advent of Big Data. There’s gotta be a better way.
Fans can show their support for Rand Paul while thwarting hackers who take over their laptop cameras.
Though he’s been in the Senate only four years, Paul has managed to place himself at the center of many policy debates.
“I did this to give the American people a chance to decide for themselves the kind of government they want to have.”
Congress has ignored years of warnings about the need for better laws to catch fraudulent tax returns.
The US has never claimed responsibility, but the House Homeland Security chair just hinted it may have been a US cyber response to the Sony hacks.
A new Pew Research survey spells out how the some Americans have changed what they do online after Snowden.
The Guardian takes back some of its Whisper accusations.
Part of this scandal is mainly optics. But part of it was a real security breach that, even now, Clinton doesn’t seem to fully realize.
No one wants their personal emails made public, the former Secretary of State told reporters as more Democrats raise concerns.
My latest cellular speed test has made me consider something I never thought I would contemplate, after a few years of horrible service in the iPhone’s early days: Switching back to AT&T from Verizon.
Building a homebrew email system makes it more vulnerable to attacks from foreign governments.
It’s hard to find anyone who’s particularly jazzed about the latest draft of the bill.
There are plenty of creepy technologies that surreptitiously harvest consumer data and don’t ask for permission. But that’s not how third-party identity works.
He’s the kind of guy who can end a two-day media + technology conference with a bang.
Is being easily linked -- forever, to certain search engine results -- being “remembered”?