privacy

The FBI has been called to investigate it.

The city council voted in favor of the ban by a margin of 8 to 1.

This is how data harvesting really works. You’re not going to like it.

Half of Americans do not trust the federal government or social media sites to protect their data.

What does your phone know about you?

Where is your data now? Follow the money.

The person whose phone was affected would have been given no indication that others were eavesdropping.

A new study shows how machine-learning methods could examine your friends’ past tweets to accurately predict your future behavior online.

And you thought red-light cameras were bad…

The country’s paperless system serves as a model to other nations.

An exhaustive report from The New York Times shows the alarming extents to which Facebook has been sharing user data.

“Didn’t you see me Googling ‘baby not moving?'” Gillian Brockell wrote a heartbreaking open letter to big tech companies imploring them to change the ways they target ads to users.

Technology proves what women know and men may not want to hear

Amazon could be the next big tech firm to find itself in the eye of a data privacy storm.

It’s likely one of the biggest data breaches in corporate history.

Should all ideas see daylight?

Project Dragonfly aims to help the Chinese government build a censored search engine that would “blacklist” information that officials don’t like.

Delay, deny and deflect were the strategies Facebook has used to navigate scandals it’s faced in recent years, according to the New York Times.

What is a blockchain phone, and why would anyone want one?

You are leaking data, and absorbing it, says Yale historian Timothy Snyder. But for whose benefit?

A supervised learning algorithm can predict clinical depression much earlier and more accurately than trained health professionals.

In an age of bountiful data, there’s dark potential for how corporations and judicial systems could use private details to discriminate against innocent people.

By using the DoNotPay chatbot, you may be able to quickly file a small-claims case against Equifax for up to $25,000.

Exterior mapping – like GPS maps – is part of daily life, but in the coming decades prepare to have your private, interior spaces mapped to assist with future technologies.

When you take off a virtual reality headset, you don’t remember seeing things, you recall experiencing them, says Kevin Kelly. VR will create a world of amazing opportunity – for us and for advertisers.

How should we view the amendment to Rule 41? Edward Snowden would have you believe it returns us to a time when a tyrant ruled over America.

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden told an audience we should not be “putting too much faith or fear elected officials.” This includes Donald Trump.

Election day is near and photos of people casting their ballots have already started to flow onto social media. But, depending on what state you live in, that voting selfie might be illegal  

Researchers at MIT have developed a system that can read a person’s emotions, even hidden ones, at a distance.