Information Policy

Plaintiffs' attorney: "Google has refused to delete previously-collected data."

A private company has captured 2.2 billion photos of license plates in cities throughout America. It stores them in a database, tagged with the location where they were taken. And it is selling that data.

Ferocious momentum continues to build against social media giant’s bid to take charge of the country’s internet through a program called Free Basics

Many technological tools used by schools are designed to customize learning, but concern is developing over the collection and use of data on individual students.

European data protection authorities say Facebook should only use cookies to track European visitors to its site if they have a Facebook account

Today, some libraries are (unsuccessfully?) advocating for a bookless future. To many, that prospect seems bizarre, even sacrilegious.

The breach of the popular kids’ gadgets company VTech is the fourth largest consumer data breach ever according to an estimate.

The program's closure was required by the USA Freedom Act.

Civil liberties advocates want to bring to light a legal opinion that could upend the security debate.

It’s no accident that Iowa, where the first transcontinental railroad began, is now home to a huge data-center industry.

In another example of the expanding enforcement focus of this Commission, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently hired privacy and…

Google has been collecting information about schoolchildren's browsing habits despite signing a pledge saying it was committed to their privacy, the EFF said Tuesday.

An entire town in northern Canada just lost its internet. Not for a few minutes. Not even for a few hours. The area’s one and only internet serv...

Recommendations by a Federal Aviation Administration task force call for owners to register and for the aircraft to display identification numbers.