Visiting your doctor isn't the same as logging into Facebook, but for how long? The growth in health data is leading some experts to call for a new "social contract" — a fresh negotiation of trust between patients and the groups that want their most intimate information.

From Facebook’s earliest days, Zuckerberg has followed the same pattern: take two steps forward, only to be pushed one step backward and land exactly where he wanted to be.

Personalization comes at a steep price. All your data gets sucked up into a company’s servers where they can do whatever they want with it. But Canopy is a new content discovery startup that’s invented impressive technology that lets it learn about you anonymously while all your data stays on your device. Built by the […]

‍On behalf of the Ministry of Security and Justice, Privacy Company carried out a DPIA on DPIA on Microsoft Office ProPlus (Office 2016 MSI and Office 365 CTR). With permission of the Ministry, we publish this blog about the findings.

When my daughter returned to classes this fall at Lockport High School in western New...

A key product of ubiquitous surveillance is people who are comfortable with it

Mapping the Privacy Rationales

The perpetrators told the BBC Russian Service they had details from a total of 120 million accounts.

Interviews with over a dozen current and former Google employees highlight a commitment to privacy—and the inherent tensions that creates.

Security researchers at UC San Diego and Stanford have discovered four new ways to expose Internet users' browsing histories. These techniques could be used by hackers to learn which websites users have visited as they surf the web.

More than a century ago, a teenager named Abigail Roberson had her photo taken at a professional studio in upstate New York. The photo wasn’t particularly scandalous—Roberson is pictured from the shoulders up, looking away from the camera—but it achieved the 1890s version of virality and set off a legal debate about…

The privacy tool used by millions of people doesn’t actually protect your privacy.

The release of our 2018 State of EdTech Privacy Report represents the culmination of our research over the past three years in evaluating hundreds of education technology-related applications and

Privacy-friendly alternatives to Google that don't track you

While privacy and surveillance affect different populations in disparate ways, they are often treated as monolithic concepts by journalists, privacy advocates, and researchers. Achieving privacy is especially difficult for those who are marginalized in other areas of life. This special issue interrogates what privacy looks like at the margins, investigating a broad spectrum of issues, methodologies, and contexts. Many make an intervention into mainstream theories of privacy and surveillance, showing how examining the experiences of individuals outside the normative white, American, middle-class subject often complicates assumptions about how privacy operates. Others examine the mundane and the banal in order to analyze how power relations play out in everyday life. By incorporating research outside the canon of privacy research, and by advocating for projects that discuss more diverse conceptualizations of “the user” or the subject, we can envision a future for privacy scholarship that incorporates a wider set of harms and needs, and encompasses the concerns of a larger base of citizens.

Contrary to the assumption in much social science research that people have stable, coherent, preferences with respect to privacy, we find that concern about pr

Opinion: Digital identification systems are meant to aid the marginalized.  Actually, they're ripe for abuse.