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Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen of Google Ideas bizarrely made hypocritical statements at the company's Big Tent event this week about the increasing need to protect our privacy, while conveniently ignoring the fact that they profit from destroying it.

With the announcement of Microsoft's next generation gaming console, the Xbox One, it has emerged that the new system carries a device that will be 'constantly listening' to gamer's conversations.

Invasive new technology has allowed retailers to monitor and track the position of shoppers by sniffing out wi-fi signals from smartphones. It has already tracked over 50 million people in at least 4,000 locations.

It seems that the London Met Police isn't content with spying on a mere 57,000 people, it has now emerged that they considered buying access to innocent citizen's private data including; gender, age, citizen's postcodes, who they made phone calls to and when, and even details of their web and app usage.

A Freedom Of Information Act request by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has revealed that the FBI has been reading private emails without warrant, using a law from the 1980's.

Verizon, Apple, At&T and Yahoo have come under fire from privacy advocates EFF for failing to protect users from government data requests. EFF evaluated 18 of the major Internet companies in their annual 'Who has your back?' report to find out which sites are the safest.

A software developer has reportedly hacked Google Glasses, revealing a number of disturbing security flaws. Through a simple modification to the Google Glasses software, practically anyone can secretly record video and audio from the wearable device.

The director of GeneWatch UK, a non-profit group which investigates how genetic technologies will impact our society, has warned that the secretary of state for health wants to introduce a national DNA and genetic 'all-in-one' database.

A Freedom of Information Request by Big Brother Watch has revealed that Bolton council hired a private investigator to secretly conduct surveillance.

Privacy International, The Open Rights Group and Big Brother Watch have jointly launched an attack on some of the UK's biggest Internet service providers over their part in maintaining a 'conspiracy of silence' with the government.