New York Magazine writer Kevin Roose spent a day trying to live completely surveillance-free.

Should advertisers and other companies be able to collect and hold onto users' browsing data? And should users be able to tell web site operators to stop tracking them?

For the most part, strong encryption technology of our e-mails, texts, and phone calls has been the domain of the powerful and the paranoid. But that's starting to change.

Firefox moved forward with a plan last week to automatically block third party cookies. As you might guess, advertisers, who rely on those little crumbs of code, aren't happy.

The Obama Administration successfully lobbied the EU to do away with a proposed data privacy measure, according to a report in the Financial Times. The exclusion would make it easier for the U.S. to spy on EU citizens.

As of right now, it's not allowed to even acknowledge those requests, let alone how many of them there are and for what kind of data.

Can consumers really do anything to force Internet and telecommunications companies to fight back against government tracking of personal data?

When it comes to pleading the fifth, the digital age is making things complicated.

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.”

The late internet activist and a New Yorker reporter worked together to develop a way for sources to anonymously share documents.