Given audience fragmentation across devices and platforms, there has been a dramatic increase in the use of tracking and data to get a...

New rules proposed by the European Union on Tuesday stand to change the way Google, Facebook and other digital media companies and ad...

Amazon has been ordered by US District Court Judge James Robart to disclose customer information for people who purchased WEN hair...

Google agreed to change its email scanning practice on Tuesday as part of a court settlement, The Verge first reported. The changes...

The news, which was heralded last week as a big win for online consumer privacy, is that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has...

He said. She said. ProPublica is taking Google to task for privacy policy changes that combine web browsing data and user profiles for...

My goal has been to show advertisers how to embrace, not fear, the federal ad regulations governing them and their partners. In highly...

According to the The Wall Street Journal, roughly 40 US companies have now signed on to the US-EU “Privacy Shield” agreement, introduced...

Last October the European Court of Justice killed the 15-year Safe Harbor agreement that allowed the transfer and processing of data...

In a class-action lawsuit that alleged illegal tracking of kids’ web browsing and video-viewing habits, Google was released from the...

Roughly a year ago Google introduced “My Account,” a centralized privacy and security center where people could manage their data and...

Ad network InMobi has agreed to pay nearly $1 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers and tracked...

For those who thought privacy might recede as an issue with the new pact hammered out between the US and the EU, recent news from Europe...

As suggested by earlier leaks, European privacy regulators are rejecting the new “Privacy Shield” Data Transfer Agreement announced in...

In a case called Weiss v. Google Inc., plaintiff Joseph Weiss has filed a potential class action accusing Google of stealing “face...

Earlier this month, American and European officials announced a new framework to ensure the continued flow of data across the Atlantic....

It may come from left field; it may be a very atypical experience for your company. And you may discover you weren’t ready for it. It...

When it comes to the balance between privacy and security, more Americans seem to favor security, according to a new Pew Research poll...

The FBI has been trying unsuccessfully to access Syed Farook’s iPhone. Farook and his wife killed 14 people in December in San...

France’s data protection authority, Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL), has been one of the more aggressive in...