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Google was supposed to be focusing Tuesday on its launch of a new smartphone and other devices, but the event was being overshadowed by a firestorm over a privacy glitch that forced it to shut...

Google was caught not disclosing a potential data breach -- leaving questions as to whether a lack of transparency is the new normal.

HITRUST is helping start-up companies make information privacy and security a foundational component while still focusing on growing their business with the introduction of the RightStart Program....

Although the passage by Congress of the Support for Patients and Communities Act this week is an important step in the nation's battle against the opioid drug addiction crisis, it lacks a critical...

This is a fantastic Q&A with NYU Law Professor Helen Nissenbaum on data privacy and why it's wrong to focus on consent. I'm not going to pull a quote, because you should read the whole thing....

Apple chief executive Tim Cook on Tuesday said the company is devoted to protecting people's privacy, with data encrypted and locked away on servers even in China. read more

Google has announced a number of security changes in the Chrome extensions system: a more thorough extensions review process, better user controls, and a new manifest that should provide stronger...

Attackers Hacked Three Separate Bugs to Breach 50 Million AccountsFacebook says that whoever hacked 50 million user accounts, putting the privacy of those users' personal data at risk, did so by...

The major tech companies, scared that states like California might impose actual privacy regulations, have now decided that they can better lobby the federal government for much weaker national...

Regretful WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton has joined the ranks of the Silicon Valley mea-culpa-rati.