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Is it a news article or malware?

November 03, 2014

A new malware threat is spreading like fire across the Middle East. What problems might the cyber weapon Flame cause, where did its name come from, and how similar is it to the virus Stuxnet? — iStockPhoto

The FBI buried malware using an article link. But did they cross the line?

POSTED IN: FBI data privacy ethics

For more privacy, let's go to India

October 29, 2014

A worker assembles a data center module container at the Rittal stand at the 2013 CeBIT technology trade fair the day before the fair opens to visitors on March 4, 2013 in Hanover, Germany. — Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Xiaomi, a Chinese electronics store, is looking for a place to keep the data safe.

POSTED IN: data security data privacy China

The numbers for October 17, 2014

October 17, 2014

A custodial worker wears a mask and eye protection as he prepares to clean Ruth Cherry Intermediate School which remains closed after it was discovered that a health care worker who treated one of the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital nurses infected with the Ebola virus lives at a home with students from the school. — Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

The UN's trust fund to fight Ebola has only raised $100,000. Let's do the numbers.

POSTED IN: Ebola big data privacy DC comics

Is Facebook's new ad tool a game changer?

By Tracey Samuelson

September 29, 2014

Politicians are calling for social networks to help fight the spread of terrorism. — Chris Jackson/Getty Images

Facebook's new advertising tool Atlas helps companies improve their targeting.

POSTED IN: advertising Facebook Facebook privacy mobile ads

A social network with no ads?

September 26, 2014

Ello is a new social media site that promises increased privacy and no ads, unlike Facebook. — Ello.co

Social media upstart Ello is positioning itself as the anti-Facebook.

POSTED IN: social media facebook social media privacy advertising start-up

New OS from both Apple and Google will encrypt

September 22, 2014

Apple Store employees greet as customer as he arrives to purchase the new iPhone 6. — Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

The security provisions make users happy and law enforcement authorities worried.

POSTED IN: iPhone user privacy Google

State governments experiment with cloud computing

September 03, 2014

Engineer Courtney Thompson at the future home of Wyoming's state data. — Miles Bryan

While many states are looking into the cloud, officials worry about privacy laws.

POSTED IN: cloud computing privacy state government

How to sell your private data - if you really want to

August 27, 2014

Jawbone collects fitness data - just one of the many, many kinds of data about you.

There are a bunch of new ways you can sell your own data for profit.

POSTED IN: big data consumer data data privacy

Renewed attention on Terms of Service agreements

By Kai Ryssdal and Ben Johnson

August 19, 2014

A Facebook login page. Terms of Services agreements for such services have received renewed recent attention. — Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

How Terms of Service and app permissions continue to bedevil users.

POSTED IN: apps online privacy user privacy