Law enforcement officials should be required to obtain a warrant based on probable cause before using GPS or other electronic location tracking to follow individuals, <a href="http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs092/1101561619973/archive/1107734328456.html">a bi-partisan group said</a> in a report released today.
Bowing to pressure from European privacy regulators, Google will soon allow owners of Wi-Fi access points to opt out of a Google service that allows smartphone owners to identify their location without using GPS (Global Positioning System), it said Tuesday.
The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will begin hearing arguments on Wednesday on two related lawsuits involving the constitutionality and the legality of warrantless wiretaps of phone and email conversations of U.S. citizens by the government.
In addition to milk, bread and aspirin, consumers may soon be purchasing their health insurance at a nearby store, according to industry experts.
After years of being accused of doing little to enforce Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act's security and privacy rules, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services appears to be finally getting serious about cracking down on offenders.
Many of Minnesota's IT employees have been furloughed due to a state government shutdown that was prompted by a budget impasse.
The Internet-based E-Verify employment eligibility system can be an important enforcement tool in the fight against illegal immigration, but only if it can be made error-free and reliable, President Obama said on Wednesday.
A newly patented Microsoft technology called Legal Intercept that would allow the company to secretly intercept, monitor and record Skype calls is stoking privacy concerns.
In a move with far-reaching privacy implications, the U.S. Supreme Court has decided to hear a case involving the government's authority to conduct prolonged GPS tracking of suspects in criminal cases without first obtaining a court warrant.
Facebook said it's working with European Union regulators to resolve criticism about its new facial recognition feature, but trouble may also be brewing for the social network here in the U.S.
Facebook's move to enable facial recognition across its entire social networking site is raising some eyebrows - and possibly some legal woes -- over its privacy implications.
In what appears to be the latest bid by a government to throttle access to news and information amid growing civil unrest, the Syrian government Friday shut down all Internet services.
California's Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has proposed a new set of rules for protecting the security and privacy of consumer data collected by the state's utility companies via new <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9179139/Utilities_use_of_smart_meters_faces_image_problem">smart metering technology</a> .
California is considering legislation that would tighten Facebook's privacy practices, and the social network is not happy about it.
Index Engines announced today that its data collection software has been integrated with <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9138245/EMC_Update">EMC</a> 's Data Domain's de-duplication technology.