Wal-Mart Stores is putting electronic identification tags on men's clothing like jeans starting Aug.

Rite Aid has agreed to pay $1 million to settle complaints that it violated patient privacy by carelessly disposing of pill bottles and labels.

Federal Trade Commission Chairman JonA Leibowitz says his agency is looking into a browser-level way for consumers to opt out of behavioral advertising.

Paul Ohm, left, and Michael Fertik. Michael Fertik, founder of ReputationDefender , and Paul Ohm , a law professor at the University of Colorado, agreed to respond to questions from readers in connection with The New York Times Magazine article " The Web Means the End of Forgetting ." Below is their second and final batch of answers.

Google's gadgets may want your location information and a lot more. Telling a legit gadget from a bogus one is harder than it looks.

A Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing on online privacy Tuesday will focus on technologies used to collect and use consumer information and could help lay the groundwork for legislation governing those practices.