Privacy

The great French director’s latest is a modernist twist on romantic melodrama.

Privacy rights protect personal autonomy and shield survivors of abuse. They also conceal abuse and safeguard the powerful. Is the concept coherent?

The app has created a space free of the problems that plague the rest of the Web, but only by leaving almost everybody out.

My neighbor asking why my apartment always smells like eggs. You’ll know when I know, Nancy.

Moxie Marlinspike, the founder of the end-to-end encrypted messaging service Signal, is “trying to bring normality to the Internet.”

The app, which was developed by the ad broker and software company Phunware, gathers users’ data in an invasive way reminiscent of the methods of Cambridge Analytica.

If we accept government data tracking, the surveillance necessary to curtail the coronavirus pandemic could become a permanent fixture in our lives.

In South Korea, the government is disseminating detailed tracking data on people with COVID-19.

“It’s this new app—you put in your Social Security number, and it makes you look like a cat.”

After a scandalous year for the social-networking site, the move toward privacy seems designed to respond to a number of problems.

Insurers are using customers’ social-media posts to determine premiums, inviting the potential for our digital lives to become disingenuous performances.

A book of technology predictions makes distressing reading at the end of a year that, a golden anniversary ago, looked positively thrilling.

A new report says that Facebook has provided large companies with access to users’ private messages and friends lists—without their consent.

The technology could revolutionize policing, medicine, even agriculture—but its applications can easily be weaponized.

From The New Yorker’s archive, eight pieces about scandals that reflect the values of their time.

A Facebook breach today means more than a Facebook breach five or ten years ago, not only because the company has grown so dramatically but also because of the cumulative effect of multiple breaches.

Big Tech wants to exploit our personal data, and the government wants to keep tabs on us. But “privacy” isn’t what’s really at stake.