Privacy

But will the smackdown change online tracking for Google or anyone else?

The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act may get its first update since Mark Zuckerberg was a 15-year-old.

Plus, Ukrainians win international competition with sign language-to-speech gloves.

A Reuters report investigating Facebook scanning policies has found out the social network may be going out of its way to partner with law enforcement in nabbing child predators. But what does this mean for user privacy?

The social giant bets big on facial recognition software, but what is it using that information for?

And are we just stuck with the current problematic password system forever? Yes. Yes, we are.

In order to increase its reach, Facebook is now developing a system that would allow children under the age of 13 to play games and use the social network.

Can technology keep kids from skipping school? In San Antonio, they're going to track children with the same microchips used for cattle, or boxes in a Walmart warehouse. Plus: Are you ready for some "backyard" neuroscience?

A new report says millions of us are making life easier for thieves and snoops.

When it came out that Google was gathering data from people's wifi links as it cruised the streets mapping the neighborhood, Google blamed a lone engineer. The Federal Communications Commission has now looked into this and it wasn't just one guy.