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For Print Use Only. The following editorial appears in The Washington Post: The antitrust onslaught against Facebook last week focused its case of harm in a familiar place: privacy. Whatever [...]

Byline: Geoffrey A. Fowler The campaign messages are coming fast and furious now. 'Hi Geoffrey, I'm Jess w/People's Action,' reads one. 'Voter Alert for Geoffrey Fowler!' says another. And the [...]

Byline: Charles Lane For Print Use Only. In the continuing protests over policing and racial injustice, the latest flashpoint is Evanston, Ill., where Northwestern University students and others are calling [...]

Byline: Reed Albergotti Lawyers representing a Google employee suing the company want to know whether the search engine giant believes it's allowed to view his digital communication, a case that [...]

Byline: Ellen Nakashima Two of the nation's largest surveillance agencies repeatedly violated either the law or related court orders in incidents reported last year despite training on the procedures set [...]

Byline: Meryl Kornfield University of Alabama faculty members were threatened by department leaders Aug. 24 with 'serious consequences' if they shared news of coronavirus infections on campus. Arizona State University, [...]

Byline: Rachel Lerman California's privacy law, often called the broadest law for digital privacy in the United States, can finally be enforced starting Wednesday. And despite industry calls for the [...]

Byline: Michael Kleinman and Charanya Krishnaswami In the terrifying, uncertain days following 9/11, Congress authorized measures empowering the most sweeping surveillance the United States had ever seen. These measures, the [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss WASHINGTON - With tens of millions of American students now learning online after their schools closed amid the global coronavirus pandemic, some U.S. senators are urging the [...]

Byline: Greg Bensinger A new consumer privacy law in California was supposed to push companies toward greater transparency around the reams of data they collect every day. But weeks after [...]

This editorial appears in The Washington Post. - - - Facebook wants to pivot to privacy, but there's a new obstacle in its path: Attorney General William Barr. Barr and [...]

Byline: Ellen Nakashima The FBI on several occasions in recent years queried the government's foreign intelligence holdings seeking information on Americans - including its own personnel - doing so in [...]

Byline: Tony Romm The activist who spurred California to adopt the country's first-ever consumer privacy law is readying for another battle: A new ballot initiative that would be even tougher [...]

Byline: Tony Romm and Craig Timberg WASHINGTON - Federal regulators this week began considering ways to update and potentially expand enforcement of the country's kids online privacy law, questioning whether [...]

Byline: Drew Harwell WASHINGTON - State and federal lawmakers are calling for new rules and investigations surrounding the use of facial-recognition scans of driver license databases by Immigration and Customs [...]

Byline: Taylor Telford Some of the biggest names in tech - Google, Apple, Microsoft and WhatsApp, among them - have joined human rights groups and security researchers in condemning a [...]

Byline: Tony Romm A new White House campaign to collect stories about alleged instances of political bias on social media has drawn wide-ranging objections from members of Congress, free-speech advocates [...]

Byline: Tony Romm Canadian regulators on Thursday found that Facebook committed 'serious' breaches of local laws over its mishandling of users' personal information, announcing they would take the company to [...]

Byline: Damian Paletta and Erica Werner WASHINGTON - Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Tuesday told a key lawmaker he would make a final decision as to whether he will furnish [...]

An internet privacy bill introduced by Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., would prohibit discriminatory data practices. That is a good goal. But which practices qualify as discriminatory is a complicated [...]

Byline: Daniel Wilf-Townsend In 2016, Uber was hacked. The hackers stole personal information - including driver's license numbers, cellphone numbers, and email addresses - from 50 million riders and 7 [...]

This appears in Sunday's Washington Post: --- The Federal Trade Commission may soon levy on Facebook what many observers are calling a 'massive' fine - though massive looks a lot [...]

Byline: Tony RommSACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A landmark law adopted in California last year to rein in the data-collection practices of Facebook, Google and other tech giants has touched off a [...]

Byline: Rob PegoraroToday is Data Privacy Day. Please clap.This is an actual holiday of sorts, recognized as such in 2007 by the Council of Europe to mark the anniversary of [...]

Byline: Cat ZakrzewskiFrench regulators' decision to fine Google almost $57 million for violating the General Data Protection Regulation shows that the European Union is serious about coming after U.S. tech [...]

Byline: Woodrow Hartzog and Neil RichardsSince the dawn of the Internet, American regulators and companies have pursued two goals to protect our privacy: that people should be in control of [...]

Byline: Cat ZakrzewskiWASHINGTON - A broad coalition of more than 200 retailers, banks and technology companies is releasing new recommendations for national privacy legislation today in a clear push to [...]

The following appears in Sunday's Washington Post.- - -A massive data breach at Marriott International is a reminder that the debate over protecting personal information is much bigger than the [...]

Byline: Cat Zakrzewski Apple chief executive Tim Cook has a clear goal: to shield the tech titan from the backlash mounting against its industry peers over their data practices. In [...]

Byline: Rick Noack BERLIN - Finding someone's home in Vienna used to be a fairly simple process. You approached the building, checked for the correct name from the list at [...]

Byline: Hamza Shaban WASHINGTON - By July of 2019, Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., aims to see the House of Representatives pass landmark legislation shielding consumers from the onslaught of data [...]

Byline: Derek Hawkins The tech industry says says it's open to a national law protecting consumer data privacy. But even after the Senate Commerce Committee spent two and a half [...]

Byline: Cat Zakrzewski WASHINGTON - Executives from major tech companies, including Apple and Google, expressed support for a national privacy law Wednesday morning, signaling they're prepared to work with lawmakers [...]

This appears in Tuesday's Washington Post: --- It was 5 p.m. on a Friday, just as Labor Day weekend was starting, when, without warning, faxes arrived at North Carolina's state [...]

This appeared in Wednesday Washington Post: --- The search for the so-called Golden State Killer - who allegedly raped dozens of women and killed at least 12 people in the [...]

Byline: Derek Hawkins Tech companies have been in the spotlight in recent months as the Cambridge Analytica scandal and other controversies have brought concerns about deceptive data practices to the [...]

Byline: Tony Romm and Drew Harwell Ancestry, 23andMe and other popular companies that offer genetic testing pledged on Tuesday to be upfront when they share users' DNA data with researchers, [...]

Byline: Tony Romm WASHINGTON - The Trump administration is crafting a proposal to protect web users' privacy, aiming to blunt global criticism that the absence of strict federal rules in [...]

Byline: Megan McArdle Last spring, when I was considering coming to work for The Washington Post, I sat down with one of the paper's senior editors for an important conversation. [...]

Byline: Derek Hawkins Big tech is going after California's new privacy law in an attempt to weaken it before it takes effect in 2020. Tech industry lobbyists representing giants like [...]

Byline: Tony Romm California lawmakers on Thursday adopted sweeping new rules that restrict the data-harvesting practices of Amazon.com, Facebook, Google and Uber, a move that soon could spur other states, [...]

Byline: Tony Romm California is hurtling toward the adoption of a new online privacy law that would govern how tech giants like Amazon, Facebook, Google and Uber collect and monetize [...]

This appeared in Sunday's Washington Post. - - - The fourth amendment protects Americans' right to 'be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.' [...]

Byline: Siobhán O'Grady British Prime Minister Theresa May said she was 'disappointed' that an effort to make taking photos up someone's skirt without consent a criminal offense failed to advance [...]

Byline: Siobhán O'Grady Last summer, Gina Martin was at a music festival in Britain when a man standing nearby snapped a photo up her skirt. But when she reported the [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Dwoskin SAN FRANCISCO - Silicon Valley companies for months have been rewriting their privacy policies to make them clearer in time for a Friday deadline - the day [...]

Byline: Rick Noack BERLIN - Europe had its own successful social media networks once, with obscure names such as SchuelerVZ, Viadeo or Netlog. Almost all of those platforms are now [...]

Byline: Peter Holley The vehicle had disappeared without a trace weeks earlier. Sharky Laguana - owner of a San Francisco business that rents out Mercedes vans - figured he'd never [...]

Byline: Rick Noack BERLIN - These days, you might get more applause for not being on social media than for reaching a follower milestone in Europe's liberal hubs like Berlin [...]

Byline: Tony Romm It was October 2010, and two members of Congress were furious with Facebook. In the eyes of then-Rep. Ed Markey and Rep. Joe Barton, the company had [...]