Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Gary Drenik is a writer covering AI, analytics and innovation. In our ever-digital world, privacy is the hottest commodity. Brands ...

The internet makes it easy to find just about anyone you want to locate. What if you want to remain private? You have the right to keep your personal information away from strangers who might bother ...

Your smartphone might be your closest companion, tracking your steps, saving your passwords and remembering your favorite takeout. But how much do you know about how ...

Technology is changing fast, especially with the rise of artificial intelligence, and much of that change is driven by ...

Rae Hodge was a senior editor at CNET. She led CNET's coverage of privacy and cybersecurity tools from July 2019 to January 2023. As a data-driven investigative journalist on the software and services ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — Being “private” on social media means keeping your profile private from other users, not the company itself. Because apps are constantly collecting data from our activities ...

Online privacy is one of the major issues we face nowadays. Right from what we see on the internet to our purchase preferences, everything is influenced online by ads or content. Our personal ...

As the volume and variety of data that can be collected, stored, and analyzed has skyrocketed over the past decade-and-a-half, we’ve seen the issue given growing prominence. Both the European Union ...

Virtual private networks, better known as VPNs, are shrouded in mystery. These software tools are meant to hide the data coming in and out of your phone or PC, to make web browsing and other activity ...

To approve research, federal regulations require the IRB to determine, when appropriate, that there are adequate provisions to protect the privacy of participants and to maintain the confidentiality ...

When datasets containing personal information are shared for research or used by companies, researchers try to disguise data – removing the final one or two digits of a zip code, for example – while ...