A suburban Philadelphia school district remotely activates the cameras in school-provided laptops to spy on students in their homes, a lawsuit filed in federal court Tuesday alleged.

The Silicon Valley giant says it deleted the accounts of the Chechen Republic’s tyrant — followed by 4 million people — because the U.S. government required it to do so.

Google Docs users are reporting various bugs today that result in them getting locked out of their documents. Most of the issues center on a mysterious Terms of Service violation. The reports...

Facebook Inc. on Wednesday won its appeal at a Brussels court against Belgium’s privacy watchdog, allowing the U.S. tech company to restore its ability to collect information about internet users in the country not registered with the social media site.

Nissan’s latest research project is ‘brain-to-vehicle’ (aka ‘B2V’) tech that could have your next car anticipating your driving reactions before you can even translate them into a turn of the wheel or applying the brake. The neural interface, which can not only improve reaction times, but also manage cabin comforts based on signals it takes […]

An app supposed to detect when people on Twitter appeared to be suicidal has been suspended due to "serious" concerns.

Tolstoy's text victimized by modern technology, laziness.

On Wednesday, a Facebook employee in Nigeria shared footage of a minor inconvenience that he says speaks to tech’s larger diversity problem. In the video, a white man and a dark-skinned black man both try to get soap from a soap dispenser. The soap dispenses for the white man, but not the darker skinned man. After a bit of laughter, a person can be overheard chucking, “too black!”

Chris Chambers: A covert experiment to influence the emotions of more than 600,000 people. A major scientific journal behaving like a rabbit in the headlights. A university in a PR tailspin

Google has removed the 'gorilla' tag from its new Photos app, after it was found to be misidentifying images of black people

Startup tells customer “Your unit will be denied server connection.”

A recently discovered bug affecting cloud company Dropbox resulted in data that was supposedly deleted years ago being restored back to user accounts.

The Long Read: The social network had a grand plan to connect millions of Indians to the internet. Here’s how it all went wrong

Here's an unusual technique for managing your workers: Put up giant TV screens everyone can see that show exactly how fast each person is doing his or her job, and make the numbers glow bright red for those who don't keep up. That might sound like a nightmare scenario from [...]

New tools are designed to show you how to post to Facebook and Twitter after you are dead.

The internet is awash in theories about Facebook using your smartphone's microphone to eavesdrop on your conversations. It's not. Here's why.

People don’t just listen to Spotify, they live it.

More than half of the selfies uploaded on Chinese social media are believed to have been edited using apps made by just one company. Meitu, which

An upcoming service aims to keep a digital version of you alive for your loved ones after you die.

Here's why these attacks present a much higher risk for civilian casualties and provoke significant anti-U.S. sentiment.

Samsung's SmartTVs are transmitting your voice commands to a third party.

I have spent the past seven months gravely concerned for my future. With the imminent repeal of the Affordable Care Act and the subsequent massive cuts to Medicaid, my ability to receive the necessary supports to live and work in my community is at great risk. This will place me further at harm.

For nearly a year, Google was suppressing ProtonMail from search results for our primary keywords. This episode illustrates that Search Risk is serious and potentially fatal for small businesses.

News that Facebook shared teens’ details with advertisers throws focus on firm’s ability to mine the data of its 2 billion users – and raises serious ethical questions

Thomson ReutersGoogle is watching you while you shop in stores.Google has long tracked shoppers' activity online. Now it's stepping up its surveillance and

A company using technology in recycling bins to track smartphones has been asked to stop by the City of London Corporation.

When you walk into a brick and mortar retail store like a Nordstrom, Cabela, or even Family Dollar, you're being tracked around the store. Not by an over-suspicious security guard, but by the store's wireless network, using your phone's Wi-Fi. The store then uses your phone to track you around the store, determine if you're a repeat visitor, see what departments you visit, and more. Here's how they do it, and how to stop them.

Twitter has a history of cooperating with Israeli authorities.