Privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) can be a significant tool for governments aiming to protect sensitive data, according to a new report from New America’s Open ...

Meta Messenger, LINE, WeChat, and Viber collect extensive personal data, often beyond app functionality purposes.

Smart thermostats can help you reduce energy usage while keeping your home cool, but they do track your daily activity to intelligently adjust the temperature. Here's what you should know about what ...

Nick Dedeke is an associate teaching professor at Northeastern University, Boston. His research interests include digital transformation strategies, ethics, and privacy. His research has been ...

Which details in a de-identified scientific record are enough to still identify a person? If, for example, the record includes that a person is a CEO, the abundance of CEOs in the world would make ...

Inadequate data privacy controls can lead to a litany of negative outcomes for firms, ranging from the loss of confidential trade secrets to the compromise of sensitive customer and third-party ...

A growing number of states are making laws to restrict how AI license plate readers, car trackers and police drone ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), under acting director Russell Vought, canceled proposed new rules this week that would have protected Americans’ sensitive private data—including ...

The Student Privacy Pledge — a voluntary promise to protect student data — ceased. The pledge was started to convince edtech companies to adopt transparency ...