The heart of the privacy bill that the Massachusetts legislature is now considering is a simple but firm rule that companies ...

The National Bureau of Economic Research has published a new working paper by economists Ali Shourideh (Carnegie Mellon ...

AES-256 remains the gold standard for high-stakes data encryption. While other, more lightweight and less-energy-intensive encryption methods do exist, they operate with multiple trade-offs in ...

Key Takeaways AI helps businesses quickly and clearly understand customer data.It predicts what customers may do next, ...

A landmark legal battle over privacy, data control and the business model of big tech is playing out in India as WhatsApp's 2021 privacy policy faces close scrutiny from the country's top court.

Big Tech AI tools treat your data like a buffet. Here are nine alternatives that don't—and which one wins for your specific threat model.

The country’s long-simmering tension between security and privacy is ratcheting up this year in statehouses, as mass data ...

A WIRED analysis shows that ICE and CBP have collectively spent at least $515 million on products from Microsoft, Amazon, ...

The Homebuyers Privacy Protection Act takes effect March 5. Here's what that means for buyers and sellers.

Researchers at Fred Hutch Cancer Center are testing whether a collaborative AI research platform can accelerate the pace of ...

The most revealing aspect of the 2021 WhatsApp privacy-policy litigation is not what it ultimately said about privacy. It is ...

A report copublished by WIRED sparked a probe into opt-out pages hidden by data brokers. Now congressional Democrats say breaches tied to the industry have cost people tens of billions of dollars.