Forget Apple’s fight with the FBI – our privacy catastrophe has only just begun

The privacy crisis is a disaster of our own making – and now the tech firms who gathered our data are trying to make money out of privacy

What’s a ‘cyber pathogen’? San Bernardino DA baffles security community

Michael Ramos claims a ‘lying dormant cyber pathogen’ on mass killer Syed Rizwan Farook’s phone still poses a threat. But what the hell is it?

Silicon Valley firms rally behind Apple in FBI encryption battle

Colleagues and rivals including Airbnb, eBay, Reddit and Twitter file brief saying that FBI is executing strategy against Apple ‘unbound by any legal limits’

US defense chief tells Silicon Valley: ‘encryption is essential’

Ashton Carter has been courting tech firms in San Francisco, trying to heal the rift between the Pentagon and the industry in the ongoing Apple and FBI clash

Top 20 iPhone and iPad apps and games of the month

From automated DJing with Serato Pyro to audio broadcasting with Anchor, via The Walking Dead, Final Fantasy IX and Kendall & Kylie Jenner

Security experts: FBI asking Apple to weaken encryption is ‘path to hell’

As digital privacy issues erupt worldwide, experts gathering in San Francisco are united that the government should not influence security technology

Apple v FBI congressional hearing – as it happened

In an important precedent for whether US security agencies can influence how private companies develop code, Apple argued its case against the FBI

Congress tells FBI that forcing Apple to unlock iPhones is ‘a fool’s errand’

Legislators accuse Justice Department of overreaching and undermining privacy but warn Apple it’s ‘not going to like’ a congressionally mandated solution

Apple backed by San Bernardino relative ahead of Congress hearing

Cupertino’s battle with the FBI heads to Washington, with Apple supported by Salihin Kondoker whose wife was shot three times in the 2 December attacks

Apple case: judge rejects FBI request for access to drug dealer’s iPhone

Judge James Orenstein says government’s position has implications that are ‘so far reaching as to produce impermissibly absurd results’

Apple’s battle with the FBI: who’s supporting them – and who’s not?

Tech industry titans and political heavyweights have all weighed in to the debate over whether Apple should help the FBI access a terrorist’s iPhone

Apple and FBI look to Congress to settle battle over iPhone encryption

US officials to argue in congressional testimony that legislators should pass a law requiring tech companies to retain user keys for decrypting customer data

Crunch time for Apple as it prepares for face-off with FBI

What might happens at this week’s congressional hearing as the iPhone maker continues to defy last month’s court order over phone encryption?

Apple shareholders reject diversity plan to recruit minorities as company leaders

Tim Cook urged investors not to vote through plans to accelerate recruitment of minorities on its 18-person board – which currently has 15 white men

Jesse Jackson tells Apple boss Tim Cook: ‘we applaud your leadership’

The civil rights leader joined other investors at Apple’s annual shareholder meeting, where most supported the company’s stance against the FBI