privacy

A man in fatigues and a face mask holds a phone with an app to the camera
COVID-19
How do contact-tracing apps around the world compare?
A woman takes tampon boxes out of a supermarket shelf in Buenos Aires January 16, 2015.  
Period apps share your fertility data with Facebook
Margrethe Vestager
Environment
Europe is not afraid to regulate Big Tech. EU Competition Commissioner Vestager explains why.
Mark Zuckerberg Grilled Before Congress; Paul Ryan Retires from House
Full Episode
Arts, Culture & Media
Diaries & Journals
WhatsApp and Facebook messenger icons are seen on an iPhone in Manchester , Britain March 27, 2017.
Global Politics
The new DHS plan to gather social media information has privacy advocates up in arms
Immigration Ban: The Republican Response, the Christian Response, and the Complexities of Digital Security
Full Episode
French President Francois Mitterrand raises his cap as he goes for a walk in the streets of Chateau-Chinon in 1995.
Global Politics
French politicians have a long history of keeping their serious illnesses secret
Google’s new keyboard, Gboard, via Google
Technology
How much of your personal data do you give up when you use your smartphone?
Protestors gathered at a small rally in support of Apple's refusal to help the FBI access the cell phone of a gunman involved in the killings of 14 people in San Bernardino, California in February.
Justice
Did an Israeli digital forensics firm unlock the San Bernardino attacker’s cellphone?
Fitbit Watch
Business
How a couple’s Fitbit told them they were expecting
Apple and the FBI are at odds over iPhone encryption.
Business
Where European countries stand on privacy versus security
Apple Vs. The FBI: What You Need to Know
Full Episode
Apple’s Privacy Dilemma: Inside The Battle Between the DOJ and Silicon Valley
Full Episode
Apple CEO Tim Cook
Technology
Apple’s scuffle with the FBI could affect privacy and freedom of speech worldwide
What's privacy anymore?
Conflict
I don’t want to watch. It’s an invasion of privacy. But I do.
Daily Time Slices
Arts
Artist Laurie Flick takes data on her daily life and transforms it into art
Facebook "Moments" facial recognition
Technology
Europe blocked it. Why is US allowing Facebook’s new facial recognition feature?
Fans at the Download Festival in Donington Park, Leicestershire, England
Justice
UK police scan faces of 90,000 people at a festival without forewarning
DiNapoli and Nadler
Global Politics
USA Freedom Act co-sponsor calls the bill a good step — but says more must be done
planeA Lufthansa aircraft flies past the headquarters of Germanwings during take-off from Cologne-Bonn airport.
Global Politics
In Germany, the public doesn’t always have a need — or a right — to know
Samsung smart TV
Technology
Your smart TV may be spying on you — and stopping it is against the law
Mohamed was important in Libyan's revolution, helping to defeat and ultimately capture Muammar Gaddafi. His younger brother missed out on Libya's revolution — so he decided to make his own fame by going to Syria to fight in the violent revolution there.
Global Politics
2014 was the year youth protesters found their voice and hacking became an everyday fear
A man assembles police observation cameras near the Bayerischer Hof hotel before the start of the 50th Conference on Security Policy in Munich on January 31, 2014
Technology
The year of surveillance is finally over
A man uses his phone to read updates about former American NSA contractor Edward Snowden answering users' questions on Twitter.
Technology
To see the changes Edward Snowden wrought, just look at your smartphone
A panel from the new book, "Terms of Service: Understanding Our Role in the World of Big Data."
Books
Al Jazeera America explains big data with help from a comic book artist
Satellite dishes at GCHQ's outpost at Bude, close to where trans-Atlantic fiber-optic cables come ashore in Cornwall, southwest England.
Justice
Why British intelligence wants your Facebook data
The famous "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas Nevada" sign on the south end of the Strip lit up on June 15, 2014. Casinos in Sin City are using big data to track customers with the goal they will keep coming back.
Books
What happens in Vegas, stays in a Vegas casino’s database
Protesters hold masks depicting former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden during a demonstration in Berlin on May 22, 2014. The sentence on the shirt reads, "What has happened to revolution?"
Arts
Laura Poitras’ new documentary tells the Edward Snowden story — with some free computer lessons thrown in
An anti-government protester kicks a surveillance camera during clashes with police in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on February 7, 2014.
Conflict
What keeps you awake at night?
A researcher at Hauri
Technology
Even your medical records aren’t safe. Chinese group hacks into hospital’s patient records
A WeChat user shows off the popular app on her phone.
Technology
If you use WeChat, China wants to know your real name
Conflict & Justice
‘Law and the Multiverse’ Considers Superheroes, Legalities
Global Politics
The US is reining in internal eavesdropping, but what about spying on the rest of the world?
An attendee takes a photograph of the Google self-driving vehicle outside the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California May 13, 2014.
Environment
Should we have a ‘right to be forgotten’ on the Net?
Environment
Brazil’s new Internet ‘Bill of Rights’ aims to protect the country’s privacy
Snowden
Environment
Edward Snowden was bigger than a rock star at his SXSW panel today
Environment
Don’t look now, but our smart machines may be sharing data about you with… anyone
Dragnet Nation
Global Politics
A cell phone wrapped in tin foil is just one of the ways Julia Angwin went off the grid in her new book
Two young women walk down a street while talking on the phone.
Global Politics
So why aren’t young Americans spooked by NSA surveillance?
Facebook
Arts, Culture & Media
Meet the Irish man responsible for protecting millions of Facebook users
Edward Snowden
Global Politics
A White House advisory panel suggests 46 ways to rein in the NSA
Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks and her husband
Arts, Culture & Media
Remember when phone hacking was something done by British tabloids?
Global Politics
Former FISA judge offers solution to restore confidence in court
Global Politics
Snowden’s disclosure prompts global debate over privacy versus national security
Environment
Teens, sharing more online, increasingly aware of maintaining privacy
Environment
Israeli computer science company devises technology to speed up video display
Global Politics
British officials pushing for power to do basic monitoring of all U.K. electronic conversations
Environment
Connecticut Senator discusses opposition to employers requesting social passwords
Global Politics
How to disappear and avoid Big Brother
Privacy smackdown: Facebook vs activists
Environment
Google and GoDaddy go to Washington
Global Politics
Europe’s problem with Google and privacy
Environment
Smart meters, privacy nightmares
Britain to erase DNA data
Environment
Facebook’s privacy invasion: Can’t stop, won’t stop
NJ Supreme Court: Warrants Required to Collect Cell Phone Data
Global Politics
Meta Data: A Detailed Roadmap of Your Life
Transparency, Secrecy and Freedom: The History of Privacy and Democracy
Conflict & Justice
Questions Raised About Whether Britain’s Security Agency has Used Prism to Get Around the UK’s Legal System