A series of leaks this summer revealed that the National Security Agency uses novel interpretations of U.S. law to gather data in bulk from the world’s largest Internet companies. Now new reports on ...

A Colorado District Court Ruling to force the suspect in a fraud case to surrender the encryption key to her laptop was deemed unnecessary after federal authorities managed to circumvent the device’s ...

WASHINGTON — In a case that could bear on studio efforts to police DVD hacking software, a jury in San Jose acquitted Russian software firm ElcomSoft on charges of ...

Presidential candidate Carly Fiorina claimed in Tuesday night’s Republican presidential debate that the Obama Administration hasn’t asked big tech companies for help circumventing encryption in ...

With the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies (EARN IT) Act, two U.S. senators have reintroduced a surveillance bill that could have major impacts on privacy and free ...

There is increasing concern from many sectors over government requests to find a way to work around encryption technology. Entities ranging from the U.N. to major tech companies—including Apple—are ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal judge here Thursday or soon thereafter is likely to conclude RealNetworks' DVD-copying software is unlawful, and therefore should be permanently barred from distribution.

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Police and judicial authorities in the EU are primarily promoting client-side scanning, i.e. searching and extracting private communications from end devices. The appeal is part of the first report by ...

Apple may have refused to help the FBI unlock an iPhone used by the San Bernardino shooter, but the tech industry is still better off working with the U.S. government on encryption issues than turning ...

The Australian Parliament just approved the hotly contested Telecommunications and Other Legislation (Assistance and Access) Bill. One of the new powers with the passage is the ability to issue ...