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A new report says websites can monitor the battery life on your table and smartphone, an action that leaves a trail and allows business and cybercriminals to track you, Panda Security reported. This is all due to HTML5, a computer ...

These days, not only is technology getting confusing, but it’s also getting downright intimidating. When you consider the fact that these massive tech giants, such as Google, Comcast and Verizon, are collecting massive amounts of data on we, the average-Joes ...

It’s nothing short of ironic that this nation, which was founded, explored, and made great by adventurous and self-reliant people, has now become a haven for those who insist on being cradled and sheltered by convenience. Responding to the demand ...

Private companies like Google now have the legal right to use the kind of spy satellite technology once reserved for agencies like the NSA. Our homes have been on Google for years, but the detail was limited to objects no ...

Are you engaging in “suspicious activity”? You might be, according to the federal government – especially if you take pictures in public. That’s the issue under consideration in Gill v. Department of Justice, a lawsuit filed by the American Civil ...

Legislators in eight states have introduced laws designed to literally pull the plug from the National Security Agency by choking off the resources the organization needs to organize within a state’s borders. The bills are part of an effort to ...

Your telephone and Internet traffic are not the only communications subject to warrantless surveillance. The US Postal Service (USPS) is helping intelligence, law enforcement and security agencies monitor the mail of tens of thousands of people without warrants, The New ...

Even seemingly good passwords provide little or no protection against hackers, experts hired by the Pentagon discovered. When a company called KoreLogic was hired to evaluate password security by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA, a Pentagon agency, ...

Cell tower dumps are becoming a popular tool for law enforcement, with both federal and local agencies using this controversial method to gain intelligence in high profile criminal cases. Once a judge issues a subpoena, mobile providers simply turn over ...

The FBI is asking a regulatory body to expand its legal authority so it can take over almost any computer in the United States or the world, even secretly turning webcams on, all with far fewer constraints. The request is ...