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What's stopping the American government from recording your phone calls, reading your emails and monitoring your location? Very little, says surveillance and cybersecurity counsel Jennifer Granick. The government collects all kinds of information about you easily, cheaply and without a warrant -- and if you've ever participated in a protest or attended a gun show, you're likely a person of interest. Learn more about your rights, your risks and how to protect yourself in the golden age of surveillance.
Curtin University has teamed with Hitachi to create a “data-gathering laboratory” that it hopes will improve the student experience.
From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers.
Tools built in to Disney apps collect, track and share personal data in breach of law designed to protect kids, alleges lawsuit
Privacy isn't secrecy; it's the right to control how you're represented.
With everything from speakers to water meters sending information to the cloud, a murder trial is testing the boundaries of privacy at home.
The younger the participant, the greater the chilling effect.
The repeal of the FCC Internet privacy rules has spurred on much discussion on privacy online and how companies collect and use that information. I have fielded many questions on what this means for consumers and their privacy when going online, using search engines, and social media.
How Thousands of Companies Monitor, Analyze, and Influence the Lives of Billions. Report + Web Publication.
Share Lab uses flow charts and data analysis to map one of the greatest forces shaping our world - Facebook.
Phishing for dissidents
Google's holding its annual conference for marketers today in San Francisco, and to kick it off they're announcing some new tools advertisers can use. One of them promises to tie…
The ever-expanding operations of Uber are defined by two interlocking and zealously guarded sets of information: the things the world-dominating ride-hailing company knows about you, and the things it doesn’t want you to know about it. Both kinds of secrets have been in play in the Superior Court of California in San…
On the civic importance of privacy.
“Any system that is not transparent is inherently corrupt.”
Open up a web browser or power up a smartphone—pretty much essential for modern-day living—and you’re walking straight into a privacy minefield. That much you know. Especially after the news earlier this week that Unroll.me, a popular service that lets you unsubscribe from multiple email lists with a single click, was…