Sen. Gillibrand: The only way to fix Facebook is to create a government data agency
A Data Protection Agency would safeguard Americans’ personal data and civil liberties. Thousands of pages of internal Facebook documents made public on Monday show a company whose own employees question its roles in the spread of dangerous content and calls to violence. Read on our data secure channel. Join Us Now!
How Can Government Protect Constituents’ Digital Privacy?
Digital privacy moves beyond protecting the data we have to ensuring that constituents have knowledge of and a say in how their data is used. So where do state and local governments go from here? Read on our data secure channel. Join Us Now!
FTC warns of internet providers’ data trove
Internet service providers like Comcast or AT&T are able to invade users’ privacy just as aggressively as digital advertising giants like Google and Facebook, the Federal Trade Commission said in a report Thursday. Read on our data secure channel. Join Us Now!
Dystopia Is Upon Us. Are You Ready?
From constant surveillance to algorithms that decide what we see, society is entering territory reserved for fictional dystopias. Here’s how to push back. Read on our data secure channel. Join Us Now!
Data Drives the World. You Need to Understand It
‘Millions of us have traded security and privacy for convenience. That’s a dangerous bargain,’ Richard Stengel writes Read on our data secure channel. Join Us Now!
Internet Privacy—Or Lack Thereof—Can Quietly Affect Your Mental Health
The insidious trickle of tech tracking into every aspect of our lives can be toxic in ways we may not even be fully conscious of, but there are steps you can take to protect yourself. Read on our data secure channel. Join Us Now
Is the privacy paradox being resolved?
A new survey finds 83 percent of U.S. consumers between the ages of 18 to 49 willing to license their social and digital platform data for rewards and benefits of value to them. Yet the findings appear to run counter to other studies. What’s causing the privacy paradox and is it becoming less relevant or […]
Google’s Pichai calls for federal privacy legislation over patchwork of state laws
Washington has discussed, but not passed, privacy legislation. Pichai said Europe’s privacy law, known as the General Data Protection Regulation, is a useful model for the US in considering legislation to protect personal data. The 3-year-old law governs how and what companies can do with data they collect on residents of the EU. Read on our […]
Do people even care about data privacy in the digital age?
People appear to have no qualms about sharing their locations, struggles, and relationships online. Read on our data secure channel. Join Us Now!
Data privacy is a big public concern. Will Congress answer with a law?
The United States is an outlier as a major economy without a data privacy law. Is the path clearing for that to change? Read on our data secure channel. Join Us Now!
