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President Barack Obama proposed new legislation aimed at combating online fraud, protecting digital privacy and creating new corporate responsibilities in the event of data breaches.
Fearing the growing clout of Facebook, some publishers and retailers are reprogramming their websites to send less data back to the social network about who visits their sites.
How to Understand the Social Network's Privacy Policy and Take Control of Targeted Ads
Last week, Geoffrey Fowler wrote a primer for Facebook members about how the social network increasingly tracks our activities. Here are answers to some of the most common reader questions about Facebook tracking, and how to stop it.
A report Thursday by a digital-privacy group shows that many communications companies have taken new steps in the past year to shed light on government requests and lobby Washington to say more.
WSJ's privacy reporter Jennifer Valentino-Devries fielded questions on Reddit about how the government monitors and what we can do to protect ourselves online.
By Glenda Toma
The debate on regulating digital privacy.
Edward Snowden says he has been able to outfox U.S. officials using encryption. During a webcast at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas, he shared privacy tips for the rest of us: Encrypt your hard drive, use browser plug-ins that keep organizations or companies from tracking you online, and cover your tracks with Tor, an online network that promises anonymity.
France fined Google for privacy violations, the latest flare-up in a long disagreement between Brussels and Washington over digital privacy, fueled by outrage over allegations of U.S. spying via American companies.
Good morning. The technology used by the National Security Agency (among others) to eavesdrop on phone conversations and online activities isn't an esoteric piece of spyware; it's available to everyone, and it's relatively inexpensive. The irony is that much of it was designed by the very companies that are now forcibly complicit in this erosion of our digital privacy -- notably Google and Facebook, which helped develop systems for distributing massive computing tasks across vast arrays of inexpensive hardware and free software.
A survey finds 6% of respondents said it is OK to commit fraud on a financial statement to help the business survive an economic downturn, up from 5% in 2013.
With a federal crackdown on “patent trolls” stalled, startups and small companies are turning to a low-cost tactic to combat frivolous patent claims.
The Supreme Court will consider Tuesday whether police need a warrant to search a suspect's cellphone, in two appeals that could define the parameters of law enforcement tapping into the trove of data stored on smartphones.
Germany said it believed U.S. intelligence may be spying on the chancellor's cellphone, an intrusion that it said would constitute a "grave breach of trust" between the longtime allies.
One of the founders of the Pirate Bay file-sharing site is planning an easy-to-use messaging app that keeps conversations secret from governments and companies -- even the app-makers themselves.
Facebook is mulling the creation of health apps as part of an initiative that could also include online “support communities,” according to a report.
It’s the weekend. Time to catch up on all the things you didn’t have time to read this week. Here are some selections from the Journal for your weekend reading list.
In order to access Facebook, users must agree to a lengthy terms of service contract that outline everything Facebook has permission to do. That includes tracking users, even when they aren't on Facebook, for advertising purposes.