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Lynn Boyden, an information architect in web services at the University of Southern California, poses with a dating website on her computer at the USC information technology services center in Los Angeles Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013. Boyden says she has developed two identities online: a public one for her professional life and a private one that only a few close friends can access. She tries to block advertising trackers when she can and limits what personal data might wind up on public sites. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

Study finds online privacy concerns on the rise

Anne Flaherty · September 5, 2013 5:39 am

FTC: Medical lab’s lax security led to data leak

Anne Flaherty · August 29, 2013 7:46 pm

President Barack Obama leaves after his news conference in the East Room at the White House in Washington, Friday, Aug. 9, 2013. The president said he'll work with Congress to change the oversight of some of the National Security Agency's controversial surveillance programs and name a new panel of outside experts to review technologies. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Voters mad about NSA spying face uphill battle

Anne Flaherty · August 13, 2013 7:15 am

FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 21, 2011 file photo, Frankie Thevenot, 3, plays with an iPad in his bedroom at his home in Metairie, La. As of Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2013, the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, a Boston-based group, is urging federal investigators to examine the marketing practices of Fisher-Price's and Open Solution's mobile apps. It's the campaign's first complaint against the mobile app industry as part of its broader push to hold accountable businesses that market technology to very young children and their parents. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Group: Apps not effective tool for teaching babies

Anne Flaherty · August 8, 2013 1:11 am

Industry, advocates finalize mobile app guidelines

Anne Flaherty · July 25, 2013 9:56 pm

FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2013 file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. The expansion of H-1b visas is considered the first major victory for Zuckerberg's new non-profit lobbying organization, FWD.us, which receives financial backing from such big tech names as Bill Gates of Microsoft, Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn and Napster pioneer Sean Parker. In announcing the group, pronounced "forward us," Zuckerberg in April called for changes so that U.S. businesses could attract "the most talented and hardest-working people, no matter where they were born." (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

INFLUENCE GAME: Tech, labor spar on immigration

Anne Flaherty · May 16, 2013 4:00 am

FTC puts background check sites on notice

Anne Flaherty · May 7, 2013 10:14 pm

FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2012 file photo, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., left, and and the committee's ranking Democrat, Rep. C.A. "Dutch" Ruppersberger, D-Md., take part in a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Pro-business legislation aimed at helping companies fend off sophisticated foreign hackers sailed through the House on Thursday despite a White House veto threat and an outcry from privacy advocates and civil liberties groups that say it leaves Americans vulnerable to spying by the military. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

House passes pro-business cybersecurity bill

Anne Flaherty · April 18, 2013 4:00 am

House committee advancing pro-business cyber bill

Anne Flaherty · April 10, 2013 5:59 pm

House revives cyber bill that privacy groups hate

Anne Flaherty · April 8, 2013 12:00 am

House revives cyber bill that privacy groups hate

Anne Flaherty · April 8, 2013 12:00 am

US swipes at China for hacking allegations

Anne Flaherty · March 27, 2013 10:24 pm