Apple said it received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests for user data from law enforcement over the last six months.

Edward Snowden's leak of classified information could have disastrous results for Booz Allen Hamilton, which counts cybersecurity as one of its core businesses, according to The New York Times.

China has demanded that the United States explain its Internet surveillance programs to the international community, according to Reuters.

A trio of National Security Agency whistle-blowers told USA Today that Snowden's leak makes them feel vindicated after they had raised red flags within the government about the surveillance programs.

Photo-ID databases used by law enforcement at the state level are raising significant privacy concerns in the wake of the revelations about the intelligence community's surveillance programs, The Washington Post reports.

U.S. intelligence officials said on Saturday that National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance programs have disrupted “dozens” of terrorist plots in the U.S., according to NBC News.

The authorization appears to extend to e-mail and text messages too, CNET reported.

The music industry claims that the Internet radio service is trying to lower the fees it pays to compensate songwriters.

The tech giants say they asked for, and received, permission from the federal government to release new details.

Reps. Mike Capuano (D-Mass.) and Walter Jones (R-N.C.) filed legislation that would regulate a new technology that targets TV ads to people by observing their activities and conversations while they watch TV via their set-top boxes and DVRs.

Verizon, Intel and other tech companies have developed technology that utilizes infrared cameras and microphones built into cable boxes and DVRs to serve up targeted TV ads to people based on their conversations and activities while watching TV.

Verizon had filed a patent application last year for a technology that would allow a set-top box to recognize when people are eating, cleaning, reading, laughing and doing other activities while watching TV and serve relevant ads to them according to that behavior. The application was rejected this past December. 

Federal regulators will apply more scrutiny to medical devices that are vulnerable to cyberattacks, a move welcomed Friday by Democratic lawmakers.

Reps. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.) praised the Food and Drug Administration for directing device makers to explain how they will protect their products from hacking or tampering.

The two members had sounded the alarm last September after a government investigation revealed that some implantable medical devices might be tampered with through their wireless capabilities. 

The New York Times reports how Yahoo reluctantly became part of the National Security Agency's Internet surveillance program to avoid breaking the law. Read more...