With nothing but a smartphone and some clever computation, researchers can exploit ambient signals to track individuals in their own homes.

System dubbed ‘the capability’ processes Australians’ information whether they are crime suspects or not

Retailers, wireless carriers and others crunch data to determine what shoppers are worth for the long term. The score can determine the prices you pay, the products and ads you see and the perks you receive. “Not all customers deserve a company’s best efforts.”

The perpetrators told the BBC Russian Service they had details from a total of 120 million accounts.

A smart home that really knows where you live.

An idle Android smartphone sends user data back to Google servers nearly ten times more frequently as an Apple device sends data back to Apple servers.

Overall, 24 percent of U.S. users have deleted the app while 42 percent have taken a break of several weeks or more.

Hackers obtained the Social Security numbers of more than 145 million Americans. Paid political chaos monkeys allegedly harvested data from at least 87 million Facebook profiles in an effort to…

Samba TV, which has deals to put its software on sets made by about a dozen TV brands, uses viewing data to make personalized show recommendations. But that’s not the big draw for advertisers.

A patent filing from Amazon considers Alexa gaining awareness of your emotional and physical state.

Amazon and Google have filed patent applications, many still under consideration, that outline how digital assistants can monitor more of what users say and do.

The 2010s will be remembered as the first decade in which we, the people, paid for the pleasure of welcoming Big Brother into our lives.

Clorox is using data from so-called smart thermometers to target ads to areas where people are sick. It’s the latest example of internet-connected devices being used for advertising.

Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has joined the chorus of voices warning that data itself is being weaponized against people and societies — arguing that the trade in digital data has exploded into a “data industrial complex”. Cook did not namecheck the adtech elephants in the room: Goo…

A review of the company’s patents indicates Facebook’s commitment to collecting and exploiting detailed personal information.

Do you know what personal details your phone is sharing about you when you're not looking? We decided to try to find out for sure.

Madison Square Garden, and Kennedy International Airport both use facial-recognition software to identify their customers. Who else does?

Who you call and what apps you use could determine what ads you see.

Analyst Gartner, best known for crunching device marketshare data; charting technology hype cycles; and churning out predictive listicles of emergent capabilities at software’s cutting edge has now put businesses on watch that as well as dabbling in the usual crop of nascent technologies orga…