An unsecured database that likely contains tens of millions of unique Social Security numbers, alongside email addresses and passwords, ...

Your personal information might be circulating on hidden online marketplaces right now, and you could have no idea. Let's be real, the thought itself is terrifying. While you're grocery shopping or ...

Former UN Human Rights Expert and Founder of Bluenumber for Digital Equity and Data Rights. He shapes policy on rights and technology. In the Age of Information, data types are a way to understand ...

When people think of Social Security, they typically think of monthly benefits — for the roughly 69 million retirees, disabled workers, dependents and survivors who receive them today. But word that ...

Firefox maker Mozilla deleted a promise to never sell its users’ personal data and is trying to assure worried users that its approach to privacy hasn’t fundamentally changed. Until recently, a ...

The Biden administration is mulling new policies for federal agencies that buy data on Americans from commercial data brokers, citing increased risks posed by the increased use of artificial ...

If you’re going online to buy some last-minute gifts this holiday season, there’s a chance the price you pay will be influenced by what’s known as “surveillance pricing.” Some retailers are using ...

Google’s goal with Gemini is to make a “personal, proactive, and powerful” assistant. The Gemini app today is adding “Personal Intelligence” in beta. This lets Gemini use the data Google already has ...