Animal and heart charities built up pictures of donors without their knowledge to target them for cash

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Privacy boundaries tested as start-up promises humans will only be added to database with their consent – apart from the celebs it added without their consent, that is

Victim Naturi Naughton tells court she felt ‘violated and out of control’ by the hacking

Snowden papers reveal that NSA and GCHQ have been trying to intercept calls made on flights for more than a decade

Mickeycaskill writes: Nintendo will pay up to $20,000 for system and software vulnerabilities in the Nintendo 3DS family of handheld gaming consoles. The company is looking to prevent activities such as piracy, cheating and the circulation of inappropriate content to…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: American and British spies have since 2005 been working on intercepting phone calls and data transfers made from aircraft, France’s Le Monde newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing documents from former U.S. spy…

Apple is talking with Hollywood studios to try and get iTunes rentals of movies that are still playing on the big screen. According to a report from Bloomberg, “some studio executives have been pushing to allow home rentals as early…

Trailrunner7 quotes a report from On the Wire: Vulnerabilities in Flash and Internet Explorer dominated the exploit kit landscape in the last year, with a high-profile bug in Flash being found in seven separate kits, new research shows. Exploit kits…

Paris has barred some cars from its streets and has made public transportation free as it suffers from the worst and most prolonged winter pollution for at least 10 years, the Airparif agency said on Wednesday. The Independent reports: Authorities…