Tag: Privacy

White House calls for more privacy laws

EILEEN SULLIVANJULIE PACE · May 1, 2014 11:48 pm

A Supreme Court visitor takes pictures with her cell phone outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, April 29, 2014, during a hearing. The Supreme Court is considering whether police may search cellphones found on people they arrest without first getting a warrant. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Supreme Court raises concerns over warrantless cellphone searches

Sean Lengell · April 29, 2014 4:00 am

Privacy advocates and defense lawyers say that because cellphones potentially contain vast amounts of personal information unrelated to a person's arrest, they should be off limits to a police search without a warrant. (Thinkstock)

Supreme Court to address key privacy rights cases

Sean Lengell · April 28, 2014 4:00 am

People are willing to volunteer their credit card information to corporations for the convenience of online shopping. (Thinkstock)

Valuing the freedom to make our own privacy tradeoffs

John Stossel · April 23, 2014 4:00 am

This Screen grab from the website WhiteHouse.gov taken Friday April 18, 2014 shows the screen explaining a new Obama administration privacy policy released Friday explaining how the government will gather the user data of online visitors to WhiteHouse.gov, mobile apps and social media sites, and it clarifies that online comments, whether tirades or tributes, are in the open domain. (AP Photo/WhiteHouse.gov)

White House updating online privacy policy

Martha Mendoza · April 18, 2014 11:40 am

National Security

Edward Snowden defends question to Vladimir Putin

Meghashyam Mali · April 18, 2014 4:00 am

Michaels confirms breach of as many as 2.6M cards

Anne D'innocenzio · April 17, 2014 10:20 pm

Police charge Canadian in Internet privacy breach

Washington Examiner · April 17, 2014 1:22 am

White House National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden's statement that no government agency knew abou tthe Hearbleed bug before this month directly conflicts with a Bloomberg report posted earlier Friday afternoon that contends that the NSA knew about Heartbleed for at least two years and regularly used it to gather critical intelligence. (Photo: Thinkstock)

National Security

Obama administration denies knowing about Heartbleed before this month

Susan Crabtree · April 11, 2014 4:00 am

University of Michigan honors abortion with art exhibit

Melissa Quinn · March 28, 2014 2:33 pm

National Security

Obama ‘confident’ NSA changes will safeguard privacy, security

Meghashyam Mali · March 25, 2014 12:00 am

Whispers, secrets and lies? Anonymity apps rise

Barbara Ortutay · March 24, 2014 5:48 pm