If you were a 23andMe customer, your genetic and personal information could be used in civil or criminal cases, targeted advertising, medical discrimination and so much more.

Patients rely on abortion clinics to protect their privacy. The providers have work to do to catch up to today’s digital surveillance threats.

More awareness is needed of security issues with tech used to track our exercise goals.

Knowing you should set your apps’ privacy permissions might not be enough to protect you. A cybersecurity expert explains how complicated privacy settings can trip you up.

Police can reconstruct someone’s movements for days or weeks at a time, without any court oversight.

A data privacy expert explains how machine learning algorithms draw inferences and how that leads to privacy concerns.

Social media companies have come under intense pressure to do more to protect teens, but there’s another concern – they could go too far.

No one has time to read the terms and conditions we are often asked to consent to. But we’re sometimes agreeing to things we would rather not.

As US cities struggle to reduce homelessness, two scholars explain how planners can reform shelter design to be more humane and to prioritize mental health and well-being.