Facebook says it uploaded email contacts of up to 1.5 million users

The expulsion and suspension of high school students in central Vietnam based on their private conversations has sparked controversy.

It has turned into a brutal reality check for Facebook.

The two parties had been locked in a dispute over how U.S. prosecutors seek access to data held on overseas computer servers owned by American companies.

Privacy settings have also been adjusted to make it easier for users to control their personal information.

Cambridge Analytica may have improperly gained access to data on 50 million Facebook users.

Trump’s campaign hired Cambridge Analytica in June 2016 and paid it more than $6.2 million.

Chinese authorities will be able to use their own legal system to ask Apple to hand over iCloud data for Chinese users, legal experts said.

The legislation is the culmination of a years-long debate in Congress on the proper scope of U.S. intelligence collection.

Concerns mounted as Alipay customers learnt their data has been used non-consensually. 

It is unclear when Uber began using Wickr, but last year it began paying for a business version that gave it the ability to preserve messages for as long as a year.

Uber's chief security officer and his deputy have been ousted because of the mishandling of the breach. 

China push for facial recognition technology bolsters start-ups as companies shrug off concerns about privacy rights.

While other devices have offered facial recognition, Apple is the first to pack the technology allowing for a three-dimensional scan into a hand-held phone.