Privacy

Vladimir Putin wants to take Russia off the global Internet in case of an emergency, like war or anti-government protests, according to recent reports — reports which, of course, the Kremlin denies. …

Apple has been gearing up for months to release the latest version of its mobile operating system, and the company has outlined rules that strictly limit developers’ use of personal health data …

CTIA recently was among dozens of commenters responding to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)’s request for input on the big data and privacy report put forth by the …

When T-Mobile US made its announcement, the immediate question was “how much data are they giving away?” Obviously, music streaming services can use a lot of data in a day, depending on how many hours they are streaming.

Verizon Communications said it received approximately 72,500 government subpoenas through the first half of this year requesting information on its customers. The information was released as part of the telecommunication …

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Visitors to the Winter Olympics in Sochi have been warned to exercise extreme caution with the use of their mobile devices.

Editor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Time Machine is a way to take advantage of our extensive history in covering the wireless space to fire up the DeLorean and take …

René Obermann may be in his last days as the CEO of Deutsche Telekom, but he is not leaving quietly. The 49-year-old exec has been making some bold statements in …

The Federal Trade Commission wants mobile platforms and apps to share more information with consumers about use of personal data. After meeting with trade groups, consumer privacy advocates, and academic …

Next time your mobile device asks you to update firmware, think twice before procrastinating that update. A new study on mobile device security found that roughly three quarters of the …

Personal identity is an intriguing issue philosophy – I spent countless hours in university debating whether or not you are still yourself if you forget everything about your past, or your brain is moved to another body, or somebody else’s brain is transplanted to your body.

With the iPad 3 already generating a huge media buzz, this is would not be a good time for Apple to see customers reconsider their purchase plans due to concerns …

Germany has a long, storied history of being both swift and overzealous in their enforcement of privacy and intellectual property laws. Today Germany’s Independent Centre for Privacy Protection has issued a blanket ban on the Facebook Like button.

There is nothing we like more here in the Valley than a cat fight, and with two tech tigers currently at each other’s throats over who can best serve up …

What began with the hacking of Sony Corp.’s Playstation Network back in April has now snowballed into a full-on hackers open season, as a whole raft of websites have fallen to the group calling themselves LulzSec. The collective have now turned their hive-mind on the government, with high-profile hacks of both the Senate and CIA sites in less than 24 hours.

Back when Sony announced their Playstation Network and Qriocity services had been hacked, unleashed 77 million users’ personal details in the process, everybody knew it was bad. However, nobody realised that more than six weeks later Sony’s evidently laughable security would still be falling victim to marauding groups of hackers.

As far as tarnished reputations go, Sony is currently in rare air. The initial hacking furore of mid-April, which resulting in the company’s PSN gaming network and Qriocity media service being shut down for three weeks, is far from over.

The ongoing row in the United Kingdom over celebrity superinjunctions has taken a turn for the strange, as Twitter users have used the social platform to blurt out the details that aforementioned celebrities paid so dearly to protect.

Over the weekend Sony’s ailing Playstation Network was finally resuscitated and brought back online, to the delight of its long-suffering users. The network had been offline for over three weeks after Sony took it down and was forced to rebuild it from the ground up in response to a massive security breach, which saw the personal details of over 100 million users lifted by hackers.