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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...