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Microsoft president Brad Smith on Tuesday said Europe was the global leader on setting rules for big tech, two years after the EU implemented...

New Zealand police revealed Monday they had frozen NZ$140 million (US$90 million) in assets linked to a Russian man accused of laundering money for...

Amnesty International said Monday that software developed by Israeli security firm NSO Group was used to attack a Moroccan journalist, the latest in a...

France's highest administrative authority on Friday dismissed a challenge by Google against a fine of 50 million euros ($56 million) for failing to provide...

Australia's prime minister said Friday his country was under a broad cyberattack from a "state-based actor" targeting government, public services and businesses, with suspicions...

Tech giants love to portray themselves as forces for good and as the United States was gripped by anti-racism protests a number of them...

Amnesty International warned Tuesday that contact-tracing technology developed to contain the novel coronavirus threatens users' privacy, highlighting Bahraini, Kuwaiti and Norwegian apps as "among...

The US is letting blacklisted Chinese technology giant Huawei back into the fold when it comes to companies working together to set standards for

Norway's health authorities said on Monday they had suspended an app designed to help trace the spread of the new coronavirus after the national...

At least a dozen bogus "contact tracing" apps designed to look like official software to track coronavirus infections have been deployed globally to spread...

Japanese gaming giant Nintendo has admitted that hackers have breached 300,000 accounts since early April, gaining access to personal information such as birthdays and...

An online voting system approved in three US states is vulnerable to manipulation by hackers and may not protect ballot secrecy, according to an...

Campaign staffs for both President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden have been targeted recently by foreign hackers, Google researchers said Thursday, highlighting...

France is rolling out an official coronavirus contact-tracing app aimed at containing fresh outbreaks as lockdown restrictions gradually ease, becoming the first major European...

Britain said Friday it was pushing the United States to form a club of 10 nations that could develop its own 5G technology and...

The US state of Arizona filed a lawsuit Wednesday accusing Google of committing fraud by being deceptive about gathering location data.

As more governments turn to tracing apps in the fight against the coronavirus, a deep-rooted tension between the need for public health information and...

France's privacy watchdog gave the green light Tuesday to a government-backed cellphone app that will alert users if they have been in contact with...

A security flaw in Qatar's controversial mandatory coronavirus contact tracing app exposed sensitive information of more than one million users, rights group Amnesty International...

German prosecutors said Tuesday they had brought charges against a 22-year-old hacker who released personal data of dozens of politicians, journalists and other public...