Julia Angwin is a senior reporter at ProPublica. From 2000 to 2013, she was a reporter at the Wall Street Journal, where she led a privacy investigative team that was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting in 2011 and won a Gerald Loeb Award in 2010.
The state's insurance department is following up on our findings that eight auto insurers charge more in minority neighborhoods than in other neighborhoods with similar risk.
They would stop Verizon's zombie cookie in its tracks, but allow AT&T to keep charging customers extra if they want privacy.
The settlement is the latest sign that the FCC is stepping up privacy enforcement actions.
The government has never been allowed to create a "backdoor" to encrypted devices. Now, it's trying to force Apple to build one.
Here’s how ProPublica reporter Julia Angwin upped her defenses against hackers and spies.
Vizio, one of the most popular brands on the market, is offering advertisers “highly specific viewing behavior data on a massive scale.”
A library in a small New Hampshire town started to help Internet users around the world surf anonymously using Tor. Until the Department of Homeland Security raised a red flag.
In an age of ubiquitous surveillance, there are still some things you can do to keep your communications private—and not all of it is high-tech.
Werner Koch’s code powers the email encryption programs around the world.
Verizon remains committed to its program of inserting a tracking number into its customers’ cell phone transmissions.
A new ranking of popular encrypted messaging programs finds the ones that are most effective at protecting users’ privacy.
Facebook is launching an aggressive technique to follow people across the Web.
The merger of online and offline data is bringing more intrusive tracking.
Here are some techniques that anybody can use to protect their privacy online.
One lesson of the Heartbleed bug is that our government is paying to undermine Internet security, not to fix it.
It’s not easy to keep your data private while surfing the Internet, but here are a few tools that can help.