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“Digital exhaust” from online life could be transformed into health insights. Should it be?
Casually browsing the web comes with the expectation that you’re probably going to be tracked by data brokers who are thirsty for your internet habits, but one might also expect that on certain corners of the web, your information is treated with more sensitivity. But a new report found that even on mental health…
More details and allegations emerge on the search engine's tactics.
In 2002, still reeling from the dot-com crash, Google realized they’d been harvesting a very valuable raw material — your behavior.
Largely missing from the ban-phones-in-schools debate are the opinions of important regulatory bodies such as the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and the Australian Human Righ…
Don’t just give away your privacy to the likes of Google and Facebook – protect it, or you disempower us all
Centering the debate on “consumer privacy” falsely creates dual identities with different protections for you the consumer and you the worker.
What happened to a Portland student sheds light on how a desire to thwart a shooting can have unintended consequences.
Major critique of "nudging" practices.
In our latest privacy experiment, we bought one banana with the new Apple Card — and another with the Amazon Prime Rewards Visa from Chase. Here’s who tracked, mined and shared our data.
UK privacy-for-kids effort
Podcast on student privacy. No transcript.
New research into how European consumers interact with the cookie consent mechanisms which have proliferated since a major update to the bloc’s online privacy rules last year casts an unflattering light on widespread manipulation of a system that’s supposed to protect consumer rights. As Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force in May […]
New technologies help companies monitor their workers’ every move. But do those data tell them anything useful?
When it comes to basic rights and freedoms, do digital devices deserve the same protection as our brains and bodies?
Third-party companies are likely collecting information on your child through the apps and programs they use in the classroom.
Our personal tech columnist asked security researchers what they could find out about him from just his cellphone number. Quite a lot, it turns out.