“[The Internet of Things] has the potential to provide enormous benefits for consumers, but it also has significant privacy and security implications,” she warned. “Connected devices that ...

Privacy has many meanings. The most general is freedom from interference or intrusion, the right "to be let alone," a formulation cited by Louis Brandeis and Samuel ...

To understand how consumers are using the Web, MasterCard conducted interviews with about 9,000 Internet users around ... your attitude toward data privacy.” Based on MasterCard’s research ...

WASHINGTON – The federal government has put Google, Microsoft, Apple and other technology companies on notice: Give consumers a way prevent advertisers from tracking their movements across the ...

Yet for all its innovative know-how and entrepreneurial spirit, the technology industry has yet to agree on a simple, meaningful solution to protect consumer privacy on the Internet. So privacy ...

This sobering fact is equally true for Internet privacy: disclosure and warnings about data collection are not read and do not change people’s behavior. Recognizing, perhaps, that disclosure is ...

And although consumers can easily abandon sites whose privacy practices they don’t agree with, it is far more difficult to choose a different Internet provider, the activists said. Many ...

While debate continues on net neutrality, privacy and the architecture of the Internet, there is some agreement about the future of the Internet over the next 10 years. Pew Research Center and ...

Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. The Internet of Things, or IoT, is the name given to a network of devices that can connect to the internet and exchange data ...

This article is a transcript of the video What Is Internet Ethics? In the video, Irina Raicu, director of Internet Ethics, discusses topics such as privacy, big data, net neutrality, and internet ...

Last week, Congress voted to gut proposed internet privacy rules set out by the outgoing Obama administration that would have prevented your internet provider from selling your browser history to ...

Net neutrality is the argument that all internet service providers (ISPs) must treat all forms of internet communication equally. This means an ISP cannot slow down or charge more for certain ...