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I was looking through the various links I have collected over the last few weeks and realized I had a few that have not made it to this site to share with all of you...

The settlement with the Federal Trade Commission resolves claims that Uber misrepresented that consumer information was secure.

In the U.S., only 5% of business IT departments so far are preparing for the EU's upcoming privacy rules, which go into effect in May 2018.

(Bloomberg) -- It's likely that you're among Facebook's now 2 billion users. But you might not have known just how much information you're sharing with the outside world when you use the social media platform. Follow the...

(Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. faces a coordinated investigation by European privacy regulators after it failed to do enough to address their concerns about the collection and processing of user data with a series of changes to Windows 10 last...

As we have learned over the last 18 months since the release of Windows 10, talking about things up front and with clarity such as privacy, can help to clear up confusion and establish the parameters that a company will approach different...

When law enforcement came knocking for the digital records of an Alexa user recently, a lot of people went into panic mode. Is that ever-handy Amazon Echo and its team of Echo Dots working against you as digital a digital spy? Not quite. It’...

When I walked around CES last week, it tended to be the big flashy items that caught mine and others attentions during the massive annual consumer electronics fest. I mean the bells and whistles, flashing lights and noises made by certain pr...