Facebook is severing ties with data brokers, those companies that sit on piles of user data such as voter rolls, property records, purchase histories, and other databases. It's bad news for advertisers, but will it improve user privacy?
Federal legislators are asking Facebook, Google, and Twitter executives to come to Washington to discuss privacy concerns.
Some connected cars will download and permanently store data from phones that sync to them.
NIST releases a new version of their Security and Privacy Controls, addressing new risks posed by the latest technology - the Internet of Things, plus guidance on combining single sign-on and multi-factor authentication.
This blog covers a talk given by Knight-Wallace journalists Bastian Obermayer and Laurent Richard discussing privacy and security challenges in investigative journalism.