
The Facebook of the Future Has Privacy Implications Today
On Facebook, you trade your privacy for information about your friends. But can you really understand what you give up in the transaction?
On Facebook, you trade your privacy for information about your friends. But can you really understand what you give up in the transaction?
As medical records go electronic and employers offer staff “wellness incentives,” the privacy of our mental health data is at risk — with potentially devastating consequences.
Medical privacy is a high-stakes game, in both human and financial terms, given the multibillion-dollar market for anonymized medical data — but existing legal protections are full of holes.
A man with my name somehow created an Ashley Madison account, which — as the latest hack reveals — I am unable to delete without paying.
Focusing on the data can mean losing sight of small-d democratic goals. Campaigns may push the buttons they think the voter wants pushed, instead of giving us a full and true picture of their policies.
A multibillion-dollar ed-tech industry says it needs to track student performance to improve education, but privacy advocates and parents worry about children's data being exploited for profit.
With each week seemingly bringing news of vast new breaches, victims are anxious and debate is raging about how to calculate the long-term costs -- and who should pay.
Anthem, Sony, IRS and other massive cyberspills show how vulnerable we've become to the bottomless appetite for personal information. Why hasn't the government done more to protect victims?