Dozens of companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds. They say it’s anonymous, but the data shows how personal it is.

Internal emails between Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg lay bare the fact that Facebook has long sought to leverage user data to turn a profit.

A widely cited result says that 87% of Americans can be uniquely identified by their zip code, sex & birth date. We do a simulation to show this is plausible.

Google wants to know what you buy and Mastercard is here to help.

Since Privacy International ranked Google worst in the world for Privacy in its 2007 privacy survey for its unique “comprehensive consumer surveillance & entrenched hostility to privacy,” Google has had at least 24 more public scandals/controversies over privacy/security.

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More than 200 pages of confidential emails are shared online by Parliament's fake news inquiry.

Yes, even the Tor browser can be spied on by this nasty code

Google faces its first challenge under Europe’s strict new data protection rules

LinkedIn, the social network for the working world with close to 600 million users, has been called out a number of times for how it is able to suggest uncanny connections to you, when it’s not even clear how or why LinkedIn would know enough to make those suggestions in the first place. Now,…

PLAIN TEXT passwords showed up on file-hosting site

Millions of sleep apnea patients rely on CPAP breathing machines to get a good night’s rest. Health insurers use a variety of tactics, including surveillance, to make patients bear the costs. Experts say it’s part of the insurance industry playbook.

A ruling in late October against a little-known French adtech firm that popped up on the national data watchdog’s website earlier this month is causing ripples of excitement to run through privacy watchers in Europe who believe it signals the beginning of the end for creepy online ads. The ex…

This year, learn what tech comes with privacy included, using Mozilla's buyer's guide for connected gadgets.

WhatsApp is the only messaging app among those with over a billion monthly active users, which hasn’t started actual monetisation ...

China is home to the world’s largest network of CCTV cameras — more than 170 million — and its police have adopted Google Glass-like “smart specs” to seek out suspects in crowds, but now its surveillance efforts have hit a new level with technology that can apparently …