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Regulators said the subscription service introduced last year is a ''pay or consent'' method to collect personal data and bolster advertising. When Meta introduced a subscription option last year that [...]

Some states with Republican-controlled legislatures want more data, while some controlled by Democrats want less, fearing it could be used to target patients or providers. In the fierce debate over [...]

Byline: Dan Diamond, Rachel Roubein The Biden administration on Monday announced new rules intended to protect the privacy of patients seeking abortions, and the health workers who may have provided [...]

Byline: Chris Velazco For people in search of lasting relationships on dating apps, thereÇÖs nothing quite like matching with someone who wants to know the real you. That kind of [...]

The disclosure comes amid congressional scrutiny and a Federal Trade Commission crackdown on commercial data brokers. The National Security Agency buys certain logs related to Americans' domestic internet activities from [...]

Byline: Julie Zauzmer Weil About 10 million people type their personal financial information into H&R Block, TaxSlayer and TaxAct websites every year to prepare their taxes, trusting the companies to [...]

Byline: Shira Ovide Dueling privacy promises say a lot about the battle to stop companies from guzzling your personal information. In commercials, WhatsApp says that you can 'message privately' with [...]

Byline: Cristiano Lima and David DiMolfetta Senate Democrats are demanding answers from Google after an investigation by Washington Post columnist Geoffrey A. Fowler found that the tech giant is at [...]

Byline: SEAN FINE; Staff TORONTO -- British Columbia's top court has struck down a provision in a child-protection law that gives government social workers wide access to the medical, counselling [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA -- A judge has dismissed the federal privacy watchdog's bid for a declaration that Facebook broke the law governing the use of personal information in [...]

Byline: Cristiano Lima and David DiMolfetta TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew's first congressional hearing was marked by tense confrontations over the company's plan to safeguard U.S. data from any possible [...]

Banning TikTok won't keep us safe. As you may have heard, the United States government is in the midst of a full-on panic about TikTok, the Chinese-owned video app best [...]

Byline: ANDREW CLEMENT Professor emeritus in the faculty of information at the University of Toronto In poll after poll over the past three decades, solid majorities of Canadians have expressed [...]

At least 14 states have passed bans on the service on government-issued devices in recent weeks. And Congress appears poised to pass a similar prohibition for federal workers. The Biden [...]

Eugene Yu was accused of illegally sending data about poll workers to China, in a case that became fodder for election deniers. Los Angeles County dropped criminal charges against the [...]

Rights advocates fear the government could use newly passed legislation to restrict speech and target critics in the run-up to crucial elections in June. ISTANBUL -- Turkey's Parliament has passed [...]

The executive, Eugene Yu, and his firm, Konnech, have been a focus of attention among election deniers. The top executive of an elections technology company that has been the focus [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITTLE; ASSOCIATED PRESS PORTLAND, ME. -- One of the strictest internet privacy laws in the United States has withstood a legal challenge, as a group of telecommunication providers [...]

Under pressure from employees and supporters of reproductive rights, the company announced privacy changes for the post-Roe era. SAN FRANCISCO -- Google said on Friday that it would delete abortion [...]

''We know we are among the most scrutinized platforms from a security standpoint,'' the video app's chief executive wrote. TikTok gave U.S. lawmakers more details in a letter dated Thursday [...]

Tweets telling women to do that went viral after Roe v. Wade was overturned, but experts say other digital data are more likely to reveal an illegal abortion. In May [...]

America still doesn't have a federal data privacy law. But look what we have found -- hope! The latest attempt to create the first broad national data privacy law in [...]

Byline: KASARI GOVENDER British Columbia's first independent Human Rights Commissioner. BC's Office of the Human Rights Commissioner exists to address the root causes of inequality, discrimination and injustice in the [...]

Byline: Geoffrey A. Fowler You may use Turbo Tax or H&R Block online to save money filing your taxes. But did you know that by clicking 'agree' to some of [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO -- TORONTO Ontario is letting regulators disclose more information when educators are involved in criminal proceedings, even before a verdict is finalized in an individual's [...]

Byline: THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY -- Lead CALGARY The Alberta government is delaying implementation of one of its new rules governing supervised drug-use sites amid a legal challenge. Under new [...]

MEDIA Nexstar Media Group Buys The Hill Website The local television behemoth Nexstar Media Group announced Friday that it had acquired The Hill, a Beltway political news website, for $130 [...]

Byline: ANDY BEST Lead CEO of the Civic Digital Network, a non-profit organization working to create national data infrastructure O ut of crises can come clarity. But as Canada charts [...]

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: James McAuley PARIS - Karim Allouache felt sick about two days after France's municipal elections in March, when he ran to represent the Paris suburb of Bondy. His symptoms [...]

Byline: Geoffrey A. Fowler It's one of the internet's big little lies. When was the last time you actually read a privacy policy? Most of the time, clicking 'I agree' [...]

Byline: Drew Harwell and Erin Cox U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have been permitted to run facial-recognition searches on millions of Maryland driver's license photos without first seeking state [...]

Byline: Eric Yoder WASHINGTON - The Trump administration has asked a federal court to reconsider a ruling that opened the door for potential payments to millions of federal employees and [...]

''Claim Your 31st Right,'' declares the #My31 app's splash screen. ''Review, share, and confirm your HUMAN right to your data as your property.'' (The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights [...]

Byline: Tony Romm and Elizabeth DwoskinWASHINGTON - U.S. regulators have met to discuss imposing a record-setting fine against Facebook for violating a legally binding agreement with the government to protect [...]

Byline: Tony Romm and Elizabeth DwoskinWASHINGTON - U.S. regulators have met to discuss imposing a record-setting fine against Facebook for violating a legally binding agreement with the government to protect [...]

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 [...]

The European Union's new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which creates a comprehensive regulatory regime for handling the personal information of EU citizens, came into force on May 25, 2018. [...]

Byline: Tony Romm and Elizabeth Dwoskin Facebook is staring down its first fine for allowing Cambridge Analytica to improperly access data about millions of people, potentially opening the door for [...]

MOSCOW -- The must-have accessory at the 2018 World Cup is a passport-sized badge of honor that, for many fans, symbolizes the fulfillment of a lifetime's ambition. The badge, called [...]

Byline: Brian Fung Verizon and AT&T will no longer share its customers' location information with a number of third-party companies who failed to handle the data appropriately, the companies said [...]

As Facebook sought to become the world's dominant social media service, it struck agreements allowing phone and other device makers access to vast amounts of its users' personal information. Facebook [...]

Here's what to expect in the week ahead: TECHNOLOGY Some of biggest tech companies report earnings. Five of the best known companies in technology will report their earnings this week, [...]

Byline: Kristine Phillips Grindr, a popular dating app for gay men, said it will stop sharing users' HIV data with third-party companies that analyze mobile and Web apps. The decision [...]

Nearly all applicants for a visa to enter the United States -- an estimated 14.7 million people a year -- will be asked to submit their social-media user names for [...]

Byline: Jeremy C. Young For many citizens, the news that Cambridge Analytica obtained millions of Americans' Facebook data and used it to help elect Donald Trump comes as no surprise. [...]

Byline: Donald E. Graham The problems at Facebook and others, real and perceived, at Google, Amazon and Apple have led to an easy consensus: The large technology companies should be [...]

Byline: Ellen Nakashima The Justice Department has issued new guidelines aimed at providing more transparency around prosecutors' secret demands for customer data stored on tech firms' servers. The binding guidance, [...]