Or will it just drive consumers nuts with invasive ads?

Tech companies are taking ownership — and control — of everything from the cloud to dark fiber.

Retailers are increasingly using data tracking to figure out what you want to buy.

Google says it’s going to boost its encryption efforts to better safeguard our data. It can't promise to keep us totally secure, but the effort's worth plenty of PR points.

If police want to track your movements using old calls you made on your cellphone, they can get the information from your cellphone company without a warrant.

At a Big Data industry conference in London, many industry experts find Edward Snowden's information dump unsurprising.

Computer scientist Jaron Lanier has a market solution for the NSA's wiretapping needs — and it involves taking out the agency's checkbook.

A lot of businesses are buying so-called third party data to add to what they’re already collecting on you. Of course, they all say, “you can always opt out.”