(THE CONVERSATION) Cybersecurity and data privacy are constantly in the news. Governments are passing new cybersecurity laws. Companies are investing in cybersecurity controls such as firewalls, ...

Many companies maintain highly valuable trade secrets and private data that provide them with a competitive market advantage. The rapidly evolving technological landscape, however, leads to new ...

Data lakes, for example, can make it easier for organizations to store, manage and analyze large, unstructured datasets. They can also ease privacy concerns by anonymizing data for analysis.

Online privacy is complex, encompassing debates over law enforcement’s data access, government regulation and what information companies can collect. This chapter examines Americans’ perspectives on ...

Opinion: Harvard's Guillermo Astudillo and I. Glenn Cohen say the US should enact a federal privacy law that protects individuals' control over personal data, rather than relying on a patchwork of ...

This Critical Questions explains the U.S. and EU approaches to data governance and AI regulation, as well as the need for clearer U.S. data privacy laws to address algorithmic surveillance and ...

Many apps you use every day are highly invasive—but you don't have to make it easy for companies and data brokers to obtain ...

The Connecticut law applies to personal data. Personal data is any information that can be linked to an identifiable individual, excluding publicly available information.

The genetic testing company 23andMe — which allows users to spit in a tube and send away the sample for a detailed DNA analysis — is filing for bankruptcy. 23andMe has faced financial hardship ...

23andMe has tried to reassure customers by pointing to its privacy policy, which currently states that the company won’t sell customers’ identifiable genetic data, and that they’ll only ...