privacy

Verizon and MySpace scored a zero out of a possible six stars in a test of how far 18 technology service providers will go to protect user data from government data demands.

The head of the advertising coalition at the forefront of the policy debate over new privacy protections for consumers blasted browser makers Microsoft and Mozilla at a Senate hearing Wednesday for derailing cross-industry work developing a feature allowing Internet users to opt out of behavioral tracking.

What's more important, your online privacy or law enforcement's endless thirst for data? Congress must decide.

Web trackers are indeed following you -- though probably not as closely as one BBC reporter just did to me.

Legislation, stealth technologies, and emerging data privacy markets are proving that the battle for our Internet privacy has only just begun.

Both paid and free apps in the Google Play store harvest the same amount of private information from Android phones, a researcher discovered.

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), a modified information-sharing bill, passes the House Intelligence Committee by a wide margin, in order to help better protect American businesses from cyber looters. However, despite ammendments, privacy advocates still see the bill as a threat to personal data privacy protections.

Data aggregator RapLeaf is still collecting sensitive data about me -- despite the fact I opted out of their database more than two years ago.

This year, your online privacy faces new threats, as a result of emerging technologies and new regulatory efforts that could affect how your Web-based life is protected... or exposed.

The lead developer of CyanogenMod, one of the most popular third-party versions of Android, has reversed a change that would have removed the ability for users to opt out of data collection, after a determined protest from some CyanogenMod users.

A new California law gives consumers unprecedented access to the information companies collect about them. Too bad it won't work.

Mozilla on Tuesday shipped Firefox 20, adding more flexible private browsing and patching 13 vulnerabilities, five rated "critical" by the company's security team.