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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: 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: Cat Zakrzewski Countries around the world are getting tougher on privacy regulation. And Facebook is moving to steer the debate so the rules are written on its terms. The [...]

Byline: Matt Bonesteel Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott has tested positive for the novel coronavirus but is 'feeling good,' his agent told NFL Network's Ian Rapoport on Monday. Elliott [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Geoffrey A. Fowler With apologies to the Beastie Boys: You gotta fight for your right to privacy. America's first broad data privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act, went [...]

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 [...]

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: Yasmeen Abutaleb;Emily Wax-Thibodeaux Missouri's top health official said Tuesday the state monitored detailed personal information about Planned Parenthood patients, in some cases reviewing women's menstrual cycles, with the aim [...]

Byline: Tara Bahrampour A move by the Trump administration to collect citizenship data based on state driver's license and ID records has raised concerns among civil rights organizations and census [...]

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 [...]