Officials in Congress and in states from Pennsylvania to California said they were alarmed by a Bloomberg Law and NBC News ...

A former Rikers Island detainee has filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit accusing two city correction officers of sexually ...

A missing woman's phone has been found in Australia's Tasmanian wilderness more than two years after she disappeared, police ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A new law banning cellphone usage in schools enacted earlier this year has completely transformed the ...

Some stores now have cameras in their dressing rooms so you can more easily check the fit of your jeans from the rear, but they also collect details about you and your shopping habits. For more read ...

Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone ...

South African mobile-network operator Cell C Holdings Ltd. opened flat in its debut on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, with the continent’s top bourse on track for its best year for funds raised from ...

WhatsApp's mass adoption stems in part from how easy it is to find a new contact on the messaging platform: Add someone's phone number, and WhatsApp instantly shows whether they're on the service, and ...

Can schools in Ohio legally confiscate or search students' cell phone? In Ohio, state lawmakers voted this year to prohibit cell phone use during the school day under most circumstances. Each school ...

Private equity firm Cinven is considering a sale of German software company think-cell, which could be valued at as much as €3 billion ($3.5 billion) in a deal, according to people familiar with the ...

Dave Ball, the multi-instrumentalist, producer, and songwriter who performed alongside Marc Almond in the influential synth-pop duo Soft Cell, died yesterday (October 22). The band’s publicist, Debbie ...

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