Compliance Management

One of the top consumer watchdogs in France has sued social media giants Twitter, Facebook and Google over their data-collection policies.

A report investigates how static, or hard to change personal data, like SSNs or dates of birth, are impacted by repeated breaches.

Along with the White House's legislative proposal, the House Intelligence Committee also introduces its own bill tackling the NSA surveillance practice.

Experts have developed a flying drone that secretly siphons smartphone data.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and California Attorney General Kamala Harris have each filed amicus briefs with a court of appeals disputing the interpretation of child privacy law in a federal case involving Facebook.

Snowden leaks detail the agency's practice of going after the gatekeepers of networks to gather intel.

In the case, plaintiffs accused Google of illegally scanning the contents of Gmail users' emails for targeted advertising purposes.

Twitter has scrapped its plans to encrypt its users' direct messages in light of heavy government surveillance, a project previously reported on by the New York Times.