Online auction and shopping giant eBay advises customers to change their passwords after hackers got into a database holding data including names and addresses. So how worried should we be?
Ten years ago, if you’d said you were writing a play about privacy, people would probably have assumed you were looking at camera-wielding paparazzi or grubby red-top newspaper hacks.
A new report on how GCHQ and the UK’s other spy agencies used NSA data is published – but it leaves many questions still unanswered.
A UK shopping centre is one of the first to track where shoppers go and what shops they visit, through their phones: Channel 4 News paid a visit to find out what it is doing with the data.
Shopping centres are now known to track customers through their Wi-Fi signals, but what are they doing with the data? Technology producer Geoff White reports.
A Channel 4 News survey finds two thirds of people stay logged into their email accounts on their phones, and a fifth have sent bank details via text, leaving them vulnerable to identity theft.
Exclusive: Two of the UK’s largest pawn brokers are selling second-hand phones which still contain texts, photos, bank details and more, from their previous owners, Channel 4 News can reveal.
Restoring your phone to factory settings does not always get rid of your data, Channel 4 News can reveal. So how can you keep your personal information safe when you sell on your old phone?
Channel 4 News has revealed how all the photos, contacts and info on many old phones can be accessed, even after the devices has been reset. Take our quiz to find out if your phone’s at risk.
As Facebook turns 10, Channel 4 News asks if the social media giant’s power is dwindling and wonders if we should all be logging off before it reaches the terrible teens.
Ed Snowden’s latest leaks not only show spy agencies tapping into and hoovering up data from apps like Angry Birds – they also reveal what a treasure trove the information is.
The inventor of the world wide web talks surveillance, accountability and the future of the internet with Krishnan Guru-Murthy, saying government agencies need to “renegotiate trust” with the public.
In the modern world of email and social networking, your connections mean that you could be more closely linked to terror suspects than you thought – which means you might be a target for US spies.
For the last 24 hours, you’ve been telling us how you use your phone, and when, through the #datababy Twitter trial. From morning alarm to lights out – here’s what we found out.
We carry our phones everywhere. But do we know what information they’re sending out? Channel 4 News tracked 24 hours in the life of a phone: even when idle it made 30,000 requests to 76 servers.
