Apple says its new watches won’t save raw audio, but features that can transcribe recent speech and summarize ambient conversations raise new questions about consent, privacy, and how people behave when they know they could always be recorded.

The Nordic country says wearable camera headsets need to be regulated given their privacy risks.

The feature, announced this week, allows Brave's users to sign up for websites and other online services without having to share their personal email addresses.

The backlash against license plate readers comes amid a wave of police abuses of surveillance cameras.

Ring says users can still opt for end-to-end encryption.

Apple says it will no longer ditch using its icloud.com domain for hiding people's email addresses.

Early testers are raving about what Instinct can do, but some say the AI assistant’s sweeping access, broad terms and ability to act on users’ behalf come with uncomfortable trade-offs.

Two years after the U.S. Department of Justice alleged that TikTok violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, it has reached a $400 million settlement.

Senator Ron Wyden sent a letter to the U.S. federal watchdog requesting a comprehensive review of how the FBI, DEA, ICE's HSI, and the Secret Service use hacking tools and spyware against Americans.

A new feature added to Comcast's newest routers can detect if there is motion inside your home without needing traditional motion sensors.

The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts told TechCrunch that it will start disclosing how many times judges authorized the use of spyware to wiretap suspected criminals.

The surveillance company announced it's making a tool called "Audit Assistance" mandatory for all customers, claiming it's already helped catch abuse. But the company has yet to explain how the tool works in detail, raising questions about its effectiveness.

A security researcher has designed an algorithm that can create computer-generated patterns capable of hiding people, faces, and vehicles from detection by surveillance cameras.

A bug in how Apple implements its Private Relay feature, which in theory masks users’ IP addresses from the sites they visit, can reveal users’ real IP addresses.

New findings by the Electronic Frontier Foundation aim to warn app developers that some of the third-party code they place in their apps may also collect their users' location data when they grant permission to the app. 

Apple has appealed a new legal demand by the U.K. government, which critics say could threaten the privacy rights of users all over the world.

New security research offers a rare view inside residential proxy networks, which rely on apps that share a person's internet connection with someone else.

The issue appears to have originated from Claude’s “share chat” feature, which allows users to create links that enable anyone with the assigned URL view a conversation or project.