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Insurance companies want to add devices to your car that can track your movements and monitor your driving. A new technology called telematics lets insurance companies see how you drive so they can tailor policies to fit your needs. “Now ...

Uniformed New York police officers have been pitchmen for Apple in recent years, even asking citizens to register devices with the police department and turning over personal information. Officers in uniform were caught handing out flyers to subway riders and ...

A Nevada school is charging a dad thousands of dollars to get access to the school’s personal data on his own son. When the father of four attempted to convince the state board of education to share multiple years of ...

A scary baby monitor hacker caused an Ohio family to awaken in horror and run to the nursery to protect their bundle of joy. Adam and Heather Schreck and their 10-month-old daughter were sound asleep one night in April until ...

The Obama administration is creating an “identity ecosystem” on the Internet that some say will lead to government-issued IDs necessary to browse the web. The process, if approved, would reportedly replace all personalized passwords on “sensitive” accounts with one form ...

The United States Postal Service (USPS) wants to collect data about your personal life and sell it for profit, according to a chief marketer. Data mining is one of just several schemes the money losing agency has hatched in an ...

License plate scanners have been a hotly debated topic due to concerns about an intrusion on privacy, and a recent police stop in Kansas will only add to those fears. Prairie Village attorney Mark Molner told local media that a ...

It is not just federal agencies that may be violating your constitutional rights. Some local police and sheriff’s departments have surveillance operations as sophisticated as those at the NSA. The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is deploying an array of ...

Perhaps you should be leery of some Gmail email users. A new free plugin lets Gmail users know when an email they sent is open – without the recipient even knowing. Called Streak, the plugin can even enable users to ...

With today’s reality of NSA spying and corporate snooping, a new smartphone seeks to shield users’ data from prying eyes. Mike Janke, a former Navy SEAL sniper, founded an Android-based smartphone called Blackphone, which guards privacy – credit card information, ...