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The executive order, signed by President Biden, brings the United States and the European Union closer to a broader deal on the transfer of digital data.

Apple has long supported privacy and shunned those intrusive ads. What happens when it sells more ads, too?

Federal regulators said the sale of geolocation information on tens of millions of smartphones could expose people’s visits to private places.

Americans have given up their privacy. What comes next?

Across industries and incomes, more employees are being tracked, recorded and ranked. What is gained, companies say, is efficiency and accountability. What is lost?

A number of lawyers and experts say that measures to safeguard citizens online are badly needed, but the bill was criticized by both privacy advocates and tech companies.

These controls, which are buried inside products from Apple, Google, Meta and others, make us share more data than we need to.

The breach is “a big black eye” for the Chinese security apparatus, one expert says, exposing the risk of the state’s vast effort to amass citizens’ personal data.

For about $200,000, an unidentified person or group is offering what is described as data on a billion Chinese citizens. A sampling seemed to show the data to be genuine.

“We know we are among the most scrutinized platforms from a security standpoint,” the video app’s chief executive wrote.