The ACLU of California has obtained records showing that Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram provided user data access to Geofeedia, a developer of a social media monitoring product that we have seen marketed to law enforcement as a tool to monitor activists and protesters.

Now that schools are back in full swing, we thought it would be a good time to check in on what’s happened in the student privacy world since we submitted our FTC complaint about Google’s practices a

Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers' incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter.

On September 27th, 2016 I was part of a panel titled “Concerns for Data Scholarship” at the Library of Congress’ symposium, Collections As…

How the Seattle Police Secretly—and Illegally—Purchased a Tool for Tracking Your Social Media Posts

Police departments across the country operate surveillance programs using invasive technology such as facial recognition, stingrays, license plate readers, and X-ray vans, often without the knowledge or approval of the public. The Baltimore Police Department used a private contractor to conduct aerial surveillance over the city for eight months before city officials learned about it. […]

The Twitter API is a powerful tool for archiving, but its use poses particular challenges for archivists.

Mass surveillance and predictive policing are all the rage. And in the act of performing identity online, ordinary people help make the world more machine-readable. Why do we play along?

Facebook is categorizing all its users into political parties. Here's how to figure out how Facebook categorized you.

The Internet of Things (“IoT”) is here, and we seem to be going all in. We are trying to put a microchip in nearly every object that is not nailed down and even

The University of Melbourne moves to allay privacy concerns amid revelations it is tracking students through their wi-fi usage.

Should a student’s performance fall, tutors will be alerted, allowing them to step in and advise