Private groups - like the one used by students whose Harvard acceptances were recently rescinded - may offer a false sense of confidence.

China's genetic research on ethnic minorities raises concerns by the global scientific community, who fear that the government may be using this information to spy on and oppress people.

Eight of the top 10 most surveilled cities in the world are in China, and they are far from the only nation using surveillance tech in the name of citizen protection.

Superhuman, an email productivity software company, is caught spying on its customers through its default read-receipts feature with no way to opt out, giving way for malicious actors to potentially abuse the feature to harm users.

Hackers launched a cyber attack on the government of Lake City, Florida, disabling the city's computer systems for several days. After working with the FBI they reluctantly paid the ransom. This is just one of a series of ransomware attacks in Florida.

If Apple's employees refused to help the F.B.I. access the contents of an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters, their decision would be supported by the Association for Computing Machinery.