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New wireless technology gives auto manufacturers a frightening degree of control over vehicles and their owners. One example: The French automaker Renault can actually turn off its Zoe electric car by remote control if purchasers stop making payments, European media ...

A picture of the body of a teenaged boy murdered in 2009 was apparently displayed on Google Maps for as long as four years, and the boy’s family and privacy groups are outraged. When a satellite took a picture of ...

Internet giants Google and Yahoo are taking serious steps to protect users’ data from NSA and other surveillance programs, and some media reports indicate that Facebook and Microsoft are also increasing their security. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer wrote an open ...

Drivers in Fort Worth, Texas, last week faced a so-called “voluntary” roadblock, where police and federal contractors asked for samples of their breath, saliva and blood. The stops are part of a government study trying to determine the number of ...

The Obama administration didn’t want the US Supreme Court to rule on the legality of the federal government’s collection of large numbers of telephone records, and it got its ways Monday when the Supreme Court declined to hear a case ...

Parents and their children scored a big victory in Colorado for privacy when the state ended its relationship with inBloom, which data mines the personal information of families. The highly controversial program was still in the pilot stages when a ...

Raising concerns about privacy, America’s skies could be filled with thousands of drones by 2018 under a new plan unveiled by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The plan would allow the operation of privately owned aerial drones in American airspace ...

Smart grid projects around the nation are coming under increased scrutiny, just as the US government increases its support of the idea. Still, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently issued a $14.3 million Smart Grid Technology grant for ...

New street lights in Las Vegas are actually high tech surveillance devices that can videotape you, track you and even record your conversations. The LED lights look like normal street lights but have the capability to record video and audio. ...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and police have the capability to monitor our every move, and can do just that in at least one American city by taking advantage of citizens’ smartphone Wi-Fi capacity. It’s a technology that can ...