Privacy & Security

The sudden halt to the legal battle over a terrorist’s phone may only intensify the larger fight over privacy and encryption.

Why it makes sense to let Apple and others market their best possible security.

At a time of rising regulatory and legal pressure on tech companies around with the world, the outcome has an only-in-America sort of feel. Apple had its day in court and it won a battle of principle against a powerful arm of the government, which decided to walk away, at least for now, from the fight.

The government said it had cracked a terrorist’s iPhone without Apple’s help and is seeking to drop its legal case to force the tech giant to unlock the device.

Human-rights research group Citizen Lab said Tencent’s QQ Browser collected and transmitted data with weak encryption technology or without any encryption at all.

Fourth Amendment issues remain. Both sides need to argue more forthrightly.

It’s time to stop stigmatizing and start recruiting those whose technology skills could keep the country safe.

The auto industry is not the first to look beyond the corporate cafeteria for experts—a week barely passes without news of the opening of an innovation lab somewhere. But the vast technological demands for self-driving cars require auto makers to hunt down talent in some of the most exciting areas of computing.

Yahoo CFO Ken Goldman's legacy could be tarnished, depending on how the company’s fight with Starboard and its restructuring plan turn out

France’s data-protection regulator fined Google for not implementing Europe’s “right to be forgotten” globally, rejecting a compromise offered by the company and setting up a court battle.

The data transfer agreement “Privacy Shield” has laid the groundwork for restoring reliable data transfer between the U.S. and EU, but it still has numerous hurdles to clear in the next months, leaving companies to hedge their bets on transfer mechanisms.

Companies and freelance hackers have been working furiously to find a way into the iPhone 5C used by terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook.

Foreign corporations and governments would be negligent if they didn’t consider the risks that result from the transfer of personal data to the U.S.

The Justice Department said Monday that it might be able to unlock an iPhone belonging to a shooter in the San Bernardino terror attacks without assistance from Apple Inc.

Lawyers for Apple and the Justice Department will square off in a courtroom Tuesday over whether Apple should be compelled to help investigators unlock a phone belonging to a shooter in the San Bernardino terror attacks.