"The law's biggest impact, in fact, may lie in how it requires companies to track what data they have, where they keep it and how to get it to people w…
"While Congress has not yet passed federal legislation to provide consumers with protections against data breaches, all 50 states and D.C., Guam, Puerto Ri…
Live from the #NatSecGirlSquad Conference in Washington, DC, on December 12, 2019, Benjamin Wittes sat down with Danielle Citron, professor of law at Boston Uni…
"The story prompted outrage at a time when Americans were particularly divided in the wake of Trump’s election and concerned about Russian interference thr…
"Woodrow Hartzog, a professor at Northeastern University Law School, offered a more optimistic framing of the WiFi-connected devices — the so-called intern…
"The other side: "To conclude that assessments aren't working, I think, is a false conclusion," says Al Gidari, a longtime privacy lawyer now…
"In the past, users might have thought they were just a “cog in the machine” whose individual activity went unnoticed, but recent privacy failures have pro…
"And companies are popping up every day, promising to use your DNA for everything from figuring out what wine or marijuana varietals your genetics predispo…
On Tuesday, December 10, the Senate Judiciary Committee (SJC) held a hearing on the encryption debate, the first such hearing in years. Most of the senators pre…
"Arvind Narayanan, associate professor of computer science at Princeton, has worked with graduate student Mathur on unearthing dark patterns found on retai…
"“There’s still a whole ecosystem predicated on sucking as much information from people’s phones as possible,” Jen King, the director of consumer privacy a…
"Richard Salgado, Google director of law enforcement and information security, said the company had processes to look through government requests and ensur…