Privacy

A recent decision by the Court is a win for Fourth Amendment advocates, but there are still many avenues for law enforcement to track Americans without a warrant online.

• By Robyn Greene & Michael Pizzi

Amazon, one of many tech companies that have called for reform of government surveillance, is selling facial recognition services to cops.

• By Kate Wheeling

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China is reportedly importing technology from a company headquartered in the U.S. to surveil supposed subversives in Xinjiang.

• By Massoud Hayoun

The company has said it would remove all audience categories based on users' reports of their interests, education, and employment.

• By Daniel Golden

A report found 18 incidents in the last year in which employees at nursing homes and assisted living facilities posted unauthorized photos and videos of residents on social media platforms.

• By Charles Ornstein

Two dozen House members have asked White House counsel to intervene, saying "these networks may already be stolen and the systems may already be compromised."

• By Jeff Larson

As civil society worries about the threat of targeted surveillance, the library provides a critical blueprint for how to tackle the problem.

• By Seeta Peña Gangadharan

They would stop Verizon's zombie cookie in its tracks, but allow AT&T to keep charging customers extra if they want privacy.

• By Julia Angwin

The settlement is the latest sign that the FCC is stepping up privacy enforcement actions.

• By Julia Angwin

The government has never been allowed to create a "backdoor" to encrypted devices. Now, it's trying to force Apple to build one.

• By Julia Angwin

Apple claims the government wants to put your privacy at risk.

• By Allison Shapiro

Priya Kumar writes on Internet rights—and what we all must do to further them.

• By Priya Kumar

Here’s how ProPublica reporter Julia Angwin upped her defenses against hackers and spies.

• By Julia Angwin

A nursing assistant has been fired for participating in what is only the most recent in a string of surreptitious recordings by employees of nursing homes and assisted-living centers.

• By Charles Ornstein

The National Security Agency has your data. Is there a way to use it that won't further violate your privacy?

• By Nathan Collins

A review found 35 cases since 2012 in which nursing home or assisted living workers surreptitiously shared photos or videos of residents on social media. At least 16 cases involved Snapchat.

• By Charles Ornstein

The existence of coded communications is a reality and the U.S. may not be able to do much about it.

• By Julia Angwin & Jeff Larson

Breaches that expose the health details of just a patient or two are proliferating nationwide. Regulators focus on larger privacy violations and rarely take action on small ones, despite the harm.

• By Charles Ornstein

Pacific Standard's primer on the "terrorist gap."

• By Francie Diep

The federal privacy law known as HIPAA doesn’t cover home paternity tests, fitness trackers, or health apps. When a Florida woman complained after seeing the paternity test results of thousands of people online, federal regulators told her they didn’t have jurisdiction.

• By Charles Ornstein

Officials are again pointing to the need for mass surveillance to take down terrorists. Here’s what we know about how well it works.

• By Lauren Kirchner