NSA Struggles to Make Sense of Flood of Surveillance Data
William Binney, creator of some of the computer code used by the National Security Agency to snoop on Internet traffic around the world, delivered an unusual message at a recent privacy conference to...
View ArticleProfessor to Try to Salvage Troubled “Do Not Track” Deal
Ohio State Law professor Peter Swire has agreed to step in to try to salvage contentious negotiations between privacy advocates and the online advertising industry over how to block unwanted online...
View ArticleOn Google, a Political Mystery That's All Numbers
Google’s quest to guess what we want before we want it has produced an unusual side effect: A disparity in the results the company presents about the presidential candidates. A Wall Street Journal...
View ArticleDon't Like This Price? Wait a Minute.
The fast-moving Internet pricing games used by airlines and hotels are now moving deeper into the most mundane nooks of the consumer economy. Deploying a new generation of algorithms, retailers are...
View ArticleSelling You on Facebook
Not so long ago, there was a familiar product called software. It was sold in stores, in shrink-wrapped boxes. When you bought it, all that you gave away was your credit card number or a stack of...
View ArticleGoogle in New Privacy Probes
Regulators in the U.S. and European Union are investigating Google Inc. for bypassing the privacy settings of millions of users of Apple Inc.’s Safari Web browser, according to people familiar with the...
View ArticleWeb Firms to Adopt "No Track" Button
A coalition of Internet giants including Google Inc. has agreed to support a do-not-track button to be embedded in most Web browsers — a move that the industry had been resisting for more than a year....
View ArticleGoogle's iPhone Tracking
Google Inc. and other advertising companies have been bypassing the privacy settings of millions of people using Apple Inc.’s Web browser on their iPhones and computers — tracking the Web-browsing...
View ArticleGoogle Expands Tracking on Sites
In a controversial move, Google Inc. said it will track users’ activities across nearly all of its services, and that in many cases, users can’t opt out of the tracking. It’s not entirely clear how the...
View ArticleThe Surveillance Catalog
Documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal open a rare window into a new global market for the off-the-shelf surveillance technology that has arisen in the decade since the terrorist attacks of...
View ArticleFacebook, FTC Near Privacy Settlement
Facebook Inc. is finalizing a proposed settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over charges that it engaged in deceptive behavior when changing its privacy settings, according to people familiar...
View ArticleJudges Weigh Phone Tracking
State and federal authorities follow the movements of thousands of Americans each year by secretly monitoring the location of their cellphones, often with little judicial oversight, in a practice...
View ArticlePrivacy Study: Top U.S. Web Sites Share Visitor Personal Data
A study released Tuesday shows that 45 percent of the top 185 U.S. Web sites transmit identifying details about their visitors to at least four outside Web sites. The data transmitted was primarily a...
View ArticleSecret Orders Target Email
The U.S. government has obtained a controversial type of secret court order to force Google Inc. and small Internet provider Sonic.net Inc. to turn over information from the email accounts of WikiLeaks...
View ArticleThe Little ISP That Stood Up to the Government
When Twitter fought a court order for information from the accounts of several WikiLeaks supporters, it was lauded by Wired.com as having “beta-tested a spine.” The latest entry into the list of...
View ArticleHeading Off Privacy Problems -- Before They Arise
When General Electric Co. was getting ready to launch a home energy-monitoring appliance last year, it called in an unusual expert: the company’s chief privacy leader, Nuala O’Connor Kelly. Ms. Kelly...
View ArticleDevice Raises Fear of Facial Profiling
Dozens of law-enforcement agencies from Massachusetts to Arizona are preparing to outfit their forces with controversial hand-held facial-recognition devices as soon as September, raising significant...
View ArticleHow TouchPad Stacks Up to iPad (Video)
On digits today, Walt spoke with Lauren Goode and Julia Angwin about his review of the HP TouchPad. While the strongest point of the TouchPad is webOS, its poor battery life relative to the iPad,...
View ArticleLatest Treasure Is Location Data
Cellphones that collect people’s locations are only the tip of the iceberg: Auto makers, insurance companies and even shopping malls are experimenting with new ways to use this kind of data. Location...
View ArticleTales From the Front Lines
The challenges women face often cut across industries. But some are also unique to specific sectors. Women who have risen high in four industries–finance, health, technology and media–sought to...
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