Google’s planning to slurp up ever more data, from wearables, fitness apps and more. It sure would be nice for Google if the Street View fiasco would fade away and stop reminding people of how they snooped on data and then lied about it, but the Supreme Court isn’t disposed to helping it out on this one. 
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Google looks to make OpenPGP easier for Gmail users
In early June Google announced a new project designed to create a Chrome plugin to allow end-to-end encryption of web-based emails using OpenPGP. We take a look at its current state and explain how it works.
Anatomy of an Android SMS virus – watch out for text messages, even from your friends!
Paul Ducklin looks into “Andr/SlfMite-A”, an Android SMS virus. The malware sends itself to your top 20 contacts and foists an third party app for an alternative Android software market onto your device… 
“Towelroot” app makes it easy to root Galaxy S5 and other locked Androids…
Galaxy S5 users will be cheering. System administrators are probably groaning. Paul Ducklin looks at an Android-era variant of Hamlet’s dilemma: “To root or not to root, that is the question.”
Is that Google Glass wearer stealing your iPad passcode?
What about the one with a smartwatch? Snoopers can catch your code from nearly 10 feet away with Google Glass or Samsung’s smartwatch and from almost 150 away using a HD camcorder, thanks to researchers’ custom-coded, shadow-tracking recognition algorithm.
SSCC 153: TrueCrypt, Towelroot, Cryptowall, and spam in Canada [PODCAST]
Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin present this week’s edition of the regular Sophos security podcast, the “Chet Chat.” In this episode: the TrueCrypt saga continues; the Towelroot software for unlocking Androids; ransomware after CryptoLocker; and Canada’s long, long, long-awaited anti-spam law.
BoringSSL wants kill the excitement that led to Heartbleed
Some things just aren’t meant to be exciting. In fact some things are supposed to be so far from novelty, surprise and frivolity that any whiff of excitement at all is a bad sign indeed. Introducing Boring SSL…
Google and Microsoft want to kill your phone if it’s stolen. Do you feel safer?
The law enforcement group Secure Our Smartphones is claiming victory after Google and Microsoft announced they will add a “kill switch” to their mobile operating systems.
Google forced to e-forget a company worldwide
Perhaps inspired by Europeans winning the right to be forgotten in Google search results last month, a Canadian court has ruled that Google has to remove search results for a Canadian company’s competitor, not just in Canada but around the world.
Google’s after your health data with ‘Google Fit’ service
Google’s reportedly about to jump into the growing fitness data marketplace – a mosh pit that consumer advocates are already calling a privacy nightmare – to wrestle with Apple and Samsung for the data getting created by fitness trackers and health-related apps.