Privacy

We investigate how some private companies use personal financial information and the human impact this has.

Defunding the police is crucial, but we must avoid obvious traps along the way.

Structural racism can be combatted only if there is political will, not more data.

Automatically labelling people who use an encrypted chat ‘criminals’ threatens our fundamental right...

The Stream asks whether demonstrators can be invisible in a surveillance age.

The ruling could require EU regulators to vet any new transfers due to concerns that the US can snoop on people’s data.

Popular video app’s link to China has US and other countries considering a ban.

Google scrapped cloud initiative that sought to address China’s desire to control data within its borders: Sources.

Live tracking of users’ locations puts thousands of people at risk, Amnesty International says.

US video-conference company says accounts were briefly suspended because it could not block individual participants.

Democrats in Congress and privacy watchdogs raise chilling concerns about domestic spying and use of military assets.

Joe Biden has to commit to go beyond lifting the Muslim ban to address discriminatory policies Muslim communities face.

‘This is a kind of watershed event when surveillance is really spreading everywhere.’

The coronavirus pandemic gives big tech firms a chance to access the holy grail of datasets – medical records.