France threatens Google with privacy fines
France is giving Google three months to abide by the country's data privacy laws or be fined. The chief of the French agency that regulates ...
Stuntwoman sues News Corp. over alleged phone hack
A woman who worked as a stunt double for Angelina Jolie sued Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. in Los Angeles on Tuesday, claiming she's a victim of a phone ...

Google settles suit, clears way for stock split
Google has resolved a shareholder lawsuit blocking a long-delayed stock split, clearing the way for the Internet search leader to issue a new class ...

Report of UK hacking of diplomats angers nations
A newspaper report that British eavesdropping agency GCHQ repeatedly hacked into foreign diplomats' phones and emails has prompted an angry response ...

Apple details government requests for data
Apple says it received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests from U.S. law enforcement for customer data for the six months ended in May. The company, like ...

US judge in Microsoft antitrust case dies at 76
Thomas Penfield Jackson, who as a federal judge in Washington presided over a historic Microsoft antitrust case and the drug possession trial of ...
Google begins launching Internet-beaming balloons
Google is launching Internet-beaming antennas into the stratosphere aboard giant, jellyfish-shaped balloons with the lofty goal of getting the entire ...
Beyonce, video game company settle NYC lawsuit
Beyonce has settled a New York City lawsuit that said she didn't play fair in a deal for a video game structured around her. Court records show the ...

Privacy - the online generation wants it
The generation that's grown up posting their lives online wants a little privacy. That's not what we might expect as we debate just how much access ...

Lawmaker accuses Google of dodging taxes
An influential committee of British lawmakers accused search company Google of dodging its taxes on Thursday in a scathing report that said the U.S.

Leaker Snowden alleges NSA hacking on China, world
For months, China has tried to turn the tables on the U.S. to counter accusations that it hacks America's computers and networks. Now, former ...
Google finds hack attempts on eve of Iran election
Google said Wednesday that it has discovered and stopped a series of attempts to hack the accounts of tens of thousands of Iranian users in what the ...
US payroll, financial firms hacked; 8 charged
U.S. prosecutors announced fraud and other charges Wednesday against eight alleged members of an international cybercrime ring that the government ...

Challenges to phone records face legal obstacles
The government's massive collection of Americans' phone records is drawing protests and lawsuits from civil liberties groups, but major legal ...

Google asks to publish more US gov't information
Google is asking the Obama administration for permission to disclose more details about the U.S. government's demands for email and other personal ...

Globally, people resigned to little privacy online
U.S. government snooping does not surprise global Internet users, who say they already have few expectations of online privacy as governments ...

Denials in surveillance program require decoding
Google CEO Larry Page and Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg are denying reports that depict two of the Internet's most influential companies ...

NSA whistleblowers say agency casts wide net
Former employees of the National Security Agency say the publishing of a court order asking Verizon to hand over all its phone calling records for a ...
2 suspected in Danish police data hacking
The Swedish founder of the file-sharing site The Pirate Bay is suspected along with a Dane of hacking into a company handling sensitive information ...

UK PM's former spin doctor denies phone hacking
British Prime Minister David Cameron's former spin doctor has formally denied charges of phone hacking and bribery. Andy Coulson entered pleas of not ...
Allegations of sex, drugs roil Baltimore jail
Inmates often complain of idleness, but Tavon White apparently had no trouble keeping busy behind bars. Investigators say the man nicknamed "Bulldog" ...

Rebekah Brooks denies phone hacking charges
Rebekah Brooks — a friend of Prime Minister David Cameron and once one of the most powerful people in the British media — on Wednesday formally denied ...
Official describes rampant computer hacking at VA
At least eight foreign-sponsored organizations, mostly connected to the Chinese military, have hacked into computer networks at the Veterans Affairs ...

Hacker who turned Manning in takes witness stand
A one-time computer hacker who told authorities Pfc. Bradley Manning was giving information to WikiLeaks testified Tuesday the soldier never said he ...

Silicon Valley at front line of global cyber war
Chinese President Xi Jinping and American counterpart Barack Obama will talk cyber-security this week in California, but experts say the state's ...