Governments getting involved in cryptocurrencies is a tricky line to walk – so is China doing the right thing give its fraught history with Bitcoin users?
Are you customer of a firm that’s been breached? Look out for more attacks
Customers of the UK telecoms provider TalkTalk have found themselves targeted by scammers – and the advice applies to other firms too
News in brief: Firefox drops XP, Vista support; CloudPets boss pressed; judge rules on streaming
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news
‘Dozens’ of police departments maintain private DNA databases
Campaigners warn of lack of oversight and laws bypassed by databases created and maintained privately
Nearly 1m Coachella user details potentially accessed in breach
Festivalgoers’ details allegedly for sale on the dark web, though Coachella says no financial details were exposed
Is E2EMail a new beginning or the end for Google’s End-to-End?
Google has handed over its end-to-end email encryption project to the open-source community – but will the community pick it up?
Judge denies blanket right to compel fingerprint iPhone unlocking
Warrant is using an ‘overly broad’ clause as a boilerplate – and that doesn’t wash, rules Chicago judge
News in brief: moon tourists to launch ‘next year’; health provider fined after breach; drone pilot jailed
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news
Data and kids’ voice messages exposed in CloudPets breach
CloudPets under fire for not having responded to warnings about the breach in December
Lawmakers set to overturn broadband privacy rules, as ISPs requested
Congress is preparing to overturn rules that require ISPs to get customers to opt in before selling data