Regulators and lawmakers in the U.S. and Europe are examining whether Google, Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. are violating privacy by employing human reviewers to listen to voice commands recorded by digital assistants.

Time may be running out for Facebook Inc. and other technology companies to come to a voluntary agreement providing law enforcement officials with access to the encrypted communications of their users.

"Since May 2018, we have more and more cases of investigations that are just dropped or severely delayed because we can’t have direct access to WHOIS registration data information,” said Gregory Mounier, head of outreach and internet governance at...

With GDPR and CCPA in place, and a number of state initiatives in progress, the call for a federal data privacy law is getting louder.

A hack of health-care data involving a medical bill collector and two major diagnostics companies has grown to almost 20 million people, and is now attracting more questions from key members of Congress.

The internet giant will try to convince the world it’s a responsible steward of all that information. To make that case, Google will first have to fix Android, a mobile operating system that’s wildly popular but hobbled by security flaws.

New updates are coming to the Microsoft Edge browser as work continues to incorporate the Chromium rendering engine in a refresh of the company’s latest web browser.

While data privacy and data security are related, they should be addressed in different--but integrated--ways.

There was an easy way Facebook could have shown its commitment to privacy that would have saved Zuckerberg some time during his speech: by rolling out “Clear History,” a feature Facebook promised a year ago that will let people disassociate their...

Apple Inc. said it was revoking key app development credentials for Facebook Inc., a move that could make it more difficult for the social network to develop and test future iPhone and iPad apps and run its mobile business.