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In The Big Short, investor Michael Burry says “One hallmark of mania is the rapid rise in the incidence and complexity of fraud.” (Burry shorted the mania- and fraud-filled subprime mor…
Companies want access to more and more of your personal data — from where you are to what’s in your DNA. Can they unlock its value without triggering a privacy backlash?
It’s the best way to avoid the heaviest hand of regulation.
Student blasts Georgia Tech for monitoring his social media accounts, including details about his travel plans and activist work on campus.
It would feel strange if a library started taking fingerprints of patrons who entered and exited just for the purpose of matching them against a state or federal database containing fingerprints of criminals.
The multimillion dollar data buy allows Google to link what we buy in brick-and-mortar stores to what ads we clicked online.
Verizon-owned Oath is pitching a service to advertisers analyzing AOL and Yahoo emails to provide targeted ad data, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Employee surveillance was for some while the Cinderella sister of surveillance studies: neither as outright shocking to citizens as state surveillance in the po
Google's data-tracking practices are the subject of a study that found even private web browsing leaves a trace and consumers are being watched everywhere.
The technology is unreliable, violates our privacy and exacerbates historical inequities, writes Kade Crockford.
Legal research companies are selling surveillance data and services to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) and other law enforcement agencies. This
This research exposes how much data Google is collecting about consumers and their most personal habits across all of its products.