Tag: Data

This image provided by the Twitter page of @fendifille shows a computer at Greater Preston CCG as Britain's National Health Service is investigating "an issue with IT" Friday May 12, 2017.

Magazine - Washington Briefing

Momentum builds for national privacy law

Grant Gross · March 8, 2019 5:00 am

This June 6, 2013 photo, the National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md.

Beltway Confidential

The NSA stopped collecting bulk phone data, and nothing bad happened

Dan King · March 6, 2019 4:42 pm

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, left, flanked by Attorney General Xavier Becerra, right, answers a question concerning a probable lawsuit the state will likely file against President Donald Trump over his emergency declaration to fund a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border Friday, Feb. 15, 2019, in Sacramento, Calif.

Beltway Confidential

Gavin Newsom’s proposal to make Facebook pay you for your data is completely unworkable

Tim Worstall · February 28, 2019 5:50 pm

Beltway Confidential

They sold people’s cellphone location data to bounty hunters — these companies don’t care about your privacy

Erin Dunne · January 24, 2019 12:12 am

The outsized impact of a small Facebook data breach

James Langford · October 9, 2018 4:00 am

Think tank: Our laws lack the reality of personal data management

Washington Examiner Staff · August 14, 2018 4:00 am

National Security

Pentagon restricts GPS fitness apps after sensitive data leaks

Travis J. Tritten · August 6, 2018 5:31 pm

In this June 11, 2014 photo, a man walks past a Facebook sign in an office on the Facebook campus in Menlo Park, Calif. British data protection authorities said Wednesday, July 2, that it is investigating revelations that Facebook conducted a psychological experiment on its users.

Facebook pays $119 billion price for European, US privacy woes

James Langford · July 26, 2018 5:21 pm

Facebook, whose data-handling practices have been under scrutiny this year, suspended analytics firm Crimson Hexagon from its platform.

Facebook suspends Harvard prof’s analytics firm amid privacy worries

James Langford · July 20, 2018 9:05 pm

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh meets with Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, on Capitol Hill.

Beltway Confidential

If you are concerned about government surveillance, you should be skeptical of Brett Kavanaugh

Erin Dunne · July 11, 2018 6:33 pm

FILE - This Tuesday, July 16, 2013 file photo shows a sign at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook reports quarterly earnings on Wednesday, April 23, 2014.

Beltway Confidential

Why breaking up Facebook won’t protect your data

Erin Dunne · July 9, 2018 6:11 pm

We Got Polling Data on 3,000 Trump Tweets. Here’s What We Found.

David Byler · July 9, 2018 5:05 am