privacy

Fortunately, opting-out is easy. Here's how to do it.

It's easy to turn a deaf ear to the controversy surrounding recent copyright protection bills like the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) or the PROTECT IP Act, which threatened to curtail free speech on the Internet by allowing the U.S. Department of Justice to blacklist and block access to websites suspected of copyright infringement. Most of us don't visit websites suspected of illegally distributing copyrighted material, so blocking us from accessing them seems harmless. But should your ISP ever be legally obligated to prevent you from accessing restricted websites, it will have to find a way to monitor your online activity, and that could cause your

On the heels of high-profile settlements with Google and Facebook, Federal Trade Commission head Julie Brill signals that lower-profile members of data economy can expect heightened scrutiny.

In honor of National Data Privacy Day this Saturday, Jan. 28, we've put together a list of the 15 worst Internet privacy scandals of all time.

It's not true that it's not possible to opt out of Google's new policy of combining all customer data from almost all its services. It's possible, but not easy. The point is to build more realistic profiles for ad targeting and marketing; if Google let you opt out, how could it sell your soul?

What Google is doing with your information, and why it’s really doing so, are up for debate, and Android is at the core of that debate.

Pop the champagne: The US Supreme Court has ruled that the police can't track your location without a warrant. But the bigger issues surrounding location privacy remain.

Carrier IQ's performance monitoring software has been deleted from the latest firmware update for the HTC EVO 3D smartphone, at the behest of Sprint, according to a post at AndroidCentral. Many more could follow.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is engaging in media monitoring activity that achieves no public safety goals and will likely have a chilling effect on legitimate criticism of the agency, a leading privacy advocacy group warned.

For a peek into what experts expect this year and beyond when it comes to privacy, we turn to Rebecca Herold (aka the Privacy Professor) for answers.

The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse lets you file privacy complaints electronically and helps you resolve them. Warning to privacy scofflaws: There's a new sheriff in town.

Facebook made waves last week as the social network finally rolled out Timeline, it's newly redesigned profile, to all users worldwide.