privacy

The good news: The Feds have finally weighed in on Do Not Track and other privacy threats. The bad news: The wimps won.

Facebook updated the document defining the rights users can expect online, though given the result it's a surprise the document isn't blank. Not only is there no 'privacy' in its 'privacy policy,' what few rights are left belong to apps that get your data without ever having to ask.

Despite surveys showing consumers put a high value on privacy, when push comes to shove, less than a third are willing to pay even 66 cents more to disclose less personal data.

Why is managing every single phone call for you so attractive to Google? There’s a cynical guess, a reasonable line you can draw through their previous voice-based initiatives, and then there’s just a question mark the size of a server farm.

German researchers have determined that people won't pay more than 65 cents to protect their personal information. I think they're asking the wrong questions.

A Minnesota middle school is being sued after it forced a sixth grader to give up her Facebook login. Some people need a few lessons in Constitutional rights.

70 million cell phones are lost per year, many with critically sensitive corporate data on them. How honest are the people who find them? Symantec "lost" 50 phones with fake private data on them. Almost everyone snooped a little, half snooped a lot and a lot tried to use apps and information to get a look at the smartphone "owner's" social network and financial records.

State agencies are forcing prospective employees to reveal their private Facebook profiles -- or face the consequences.

HR 1981, the SOPA alternative proposed by SOPA/PIPA author Lamar Smith, tries to give more power and less culpability to copyright owners already abusing enforcement system so badly that 67 percent of takedown orders come from competitors, not from simple mistakes.

A new Pew Research survey shows that more Americans than ever are choosing to go private on Facebook and Twitter. It's time to for the "privacy is dead" lie to die.

EFF has posted simple instructions showing how to delete your web history at Google before March 1, when Google tucks all that casual data into a database that might give a very intimate portrait of what you like to know and and how you spend your time.