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The National Security Agency buys Americans' internet browsing information, including about the websites they visit and the apps they use, without warrants, Sen. Ron Wyden revealed.

The first CosMc's specialty drinks cafe spinoff saw more than double the visits in its first month, December, than typical locations across the McDonald's chain.

Location data is being used to anticipate and prepare for whats next in a dynamic and often unpredictable world.

Data Privacy Week is January 21-27 this year, which is a perfect time to help as many people as possible understand why they should care about privacy and what they can do to improve their online priv

The FTC is banning Austin-based InMarket from selling certain location data and alleges the company did not fully inform consumers.

The bill, which is backed by the ACLU and abortion-rights groups, would make Massachusetts the first state to enact such a total ban.

It’s no surprise that corporations harvest vast amounts of data about people, but documents in an FTC lawsuit detail the stunning amount that data brokers know about you and everyone else.

"Destroy all location data": FTC head Lina Khan takes on data brokers with groundbreaking medical tracking ban

According to the FTC, Outlogic - a Virginia-based data broker - had no policies until last May to remove doctors offices, domestic abuse shelters, reproductive health clinics, places of worship and other sensitive locations from raw data it sold.

The hack, one of the most dramatic since Russias full-scale invasion nearly two years ago, knocked out services provided by Ukraines biggest telecoms operator | World News