Making email encryption more user friendly

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

A new report says the U.S. Justice Department allowed law enforcement agencies to examine more private data in 2010-2011 than in the entire previous decade. And Amazon is planning online wine sales.

There's been a lot of talk recently about privacy protection on the web. The White House and tech companies say they want to protect you, but can they?

On the White House agenda today: a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights. The Obama administration says we need more protection from companies that have gotten better and better at tracking us online.

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The White House is proposing new online privacy rules. But one analyst tells us, advertisers aren't all that interested in who you really are.

Reporter Julia Angwin discusses her story in the Wall Street Journal detailing the tracking of Apple iPhone users.

Last week's Facebook IPO has many users questioning why the social network can make so much money off of their user data.