Mozilla, the company behind the Firefox browser, has released technology that helps websites detect the physical location of computers.

The influential privacy organization Center for Digital Democracy has asked authorities in New York and California to investigate ad targeting on MySpace and Facebook.

Responding to Judah Hamer's defense of the recently adopted Library Privacy Act, S.220 , I must state that his arguments in favor of the law ignore a fundamental right of all adults: the right to demand and ...

A federal panel of policymakers and scientific experts on Tuesday urged a government-wide evaluation of programs that sift through databases looking for clues on terrorism, to determine whether the programs are ...

Health care organizations that operate in California have two more good reasons to be sure that they comply with the data security and privacy requirements of the federal HIPAA law.

Motorsport boss Max Mosley plans to challenge the UK's privacy laws in the European Court of Human Rights, he said.