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Health care company Aetna potentially revealed the HIV status of thousands of customers after sending out letters with their details clearly visible through the envelope window.

The American Civil Liberties Union has uncovered memos that show the National Security Agency (NSA) and FBI “violated specific civil liberty protections during the Obama administration by improperly searching and disseminating raw intelligence on Americans or failing to promptly delete unauthorized intercepts,” as reported by The Hill on Tuesday.

The company behind the Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner, iRobot, has suggested it may sell maps of Roomba users’ homes to tech companies such as Amazon, Google or Facebook.

Police are accused of using the helicopter’s powerful video camera to film members of the public having sex and sunbathing naked.

Breitbart Tech recently had the opportunity to speak to attorney Daniel Szalkiewicz, who specializes in defamation and Internet privacy cases, most notably those concerning revenge porn and sextortion.

An alliance of news publishers have claimed that new changes to European Union privacy laws will “potentially kill” their businesses, and give too much power to Google, Apple, and Facebook.

The BBC has revealed it will use people “personal information” to “stop” them being “disruptive” or “offensive” online, as well as threatening to inform users employer if they are perceived to have broken the law.

Twitter, Instagram, and 6 other tech companies will contribute around $5.3 million to a payment fund for consumers who used their apps between 2009 and 2012 if a settlement for breaching the privacy of users is approved.

Reddit recently released their 2016 transparency report which shows that information requests from law enforcement tripled in the last two years.

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) discussed the possible elimination of the FCC’s 2016 broadband privacy rules on Tuesday’s Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow.

The government has long denied that the FBI took advantage of Best Buy’s “Geek Squad” technicians to conduct surveillance on American citizens, but according to OC Weekly, recently unsealed court documents prove it really did happen. In fact, according to these records,

Former Michigan Congressman Pete Hoekstra, onetime chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, discussed the CIA WikiLeaks “Vault 7” documents with SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily.

2K Games won a long-running case about its right to store and distribute the biometric data it collects from face scans in its games.

As facial recognition shifts from movie magic to mundane reality, one man is taking a unique approach to the preservation of personal privacy with clothes to confuse such technology.

A Playboy Playmate who posted a photo on Snapchat of a naked, 70-year-old woman and made fun of her weight pleaded not guilty Monday to a misdemeanor count of invasion of privacy.

Russian software company Elcomsoft claims that iPhone call logs are transmitted back to Apple, regardless of whether users have iCloud backup enabled or not.

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – WhatsApp has temporarily suspended giving parent company Facebook information about users in Europe for ad targeting, responding to concerns there over privacy, a source close to the matter said.

Iran’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Mahmoud Vaezi, announced on Sunday that Phase One of the new “national Internet” is complete.

The European Commission plans to attack citizens’ right to online privacy, insisting that state-issued ID cards should be used to log into platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, and even Uber. The Vice President for the Digital Single Market on the European Commission, former

The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that mobile phone location records do not fall under the fourth amendment, after a 12-3 vote on Monday.

Authorities found cameras disguised as wall-mounted coat hooks in at least three public bathrooms in and around the Florida Keys, according to a new report.

The Intercept raises alarms about a provision slipped into the Senate’s annual intelligence authorization bill that would “give the FBI the ability to demand individuals’ email data and possibly web-surfing history from their service providers without a warrant and in complete secrecy.”

If you don’t configure your security system correctly, it could be sabotaging you by allowing voyeurs access to your home.

A man from Glen Rock, PA, was arrested after he admitted to hiding multiple cameras in three bathrooms and taking thousands of images of women and children using the facilities over the course of several years, police say.

More than 1,000,000 people — plus their families — have signed the boycott pledge against Target, following the secretive decision by executives to open all of their stores’ bathrooms and changing rooms to people of both sexes.

A hidden feature buried deep in the architecture of both Apple and Android phones is secretly keeping a record of every place you visit.

Privacy for All Students, an organization based in California, has sent an open letter to GOP frontrunner Donald Trump following his recent comments on North Carolina’s bathroom legislation.

A judge has ruled that evidence obtained by the FBI with the assistance of malware is inadmissible in court, making all subsequent investigation of the case warrantless and unreasonable.

Illinois drivers will pay mileage taxes to raise revenue for major construction projects, if a proposal from the president of Illinois’s Senate, Sen. John Cullerton, gets his way.

On Saturday, the Washington Post opined that North Carolina lawmakers have rushed “to bigotry” in passing a new non-discrimination law.

The FBI is making a bid to break its stalemate against Apple, by tapping an Israeli firm to crack the iPhone’s supposedly unbreakable encryption.

In the wake of the San Bernardino shooting, a headline-grabbing war broke out between the FBI and Apple, which refuses to modify the software on slain jihadi Syed Farook’s iPhone so the FBI can examine his data. A lengthy article at Bloomberg Business argues this was really more like a cold war going hot, because the FBI has been at odds with Apple since the latest version of its operating system was released.

Former professional wrester Hulk Hogan wept openly in a Pinellas County, Florida, courtroom Friday evening after being awarded $115 million in damages in his invasion of privacy lawsuit against Gawker Media over the outlet’s publication of his sex tape.

Shodan, an account-based search engine, has revealed a new feature for members to search through unprotected webcams and spy on people around the world.

Google’s effort to keep its search bar alive on Apple iPhones turns out to be a bigger deal than many people suspected — especially since, as Bloomberg Business notes, Apple CEO Tim Cook has been criticizing Google for invading the privacy of users.