The New York Child Data Protection Act, a landmark state law to protect children’s privacy online, officially went into effect on Friday.

BOSTON — Another comprehensive data privacy bill featuring protections around sensitive geolocation information is poised to emerge soon on Beacon Hill.

As Elon Musk leaves Washington, the team he formed to ferret out waste and abuse won dual victories in the Supreme Court.

What happens when an engineer builds a smart garden? This Arduino-powered system automates watering while collecting real-time data on soil moisture, temperature, and sunlight. From sensor ...

California-based Berkeley Research Group says it paid hackers a ransom to delete data involving abuse survivors after a security breach.

State lawmakers will consider a bill to limit information collected that could potentially identify undocumented students who opt out of filling out financial aid applications.

Additionally, in vitro data presented for ABI-4334 provide further insights into the potential for next-generation capsid assembly modulators to impact markers of chronic HBV infection.

A centralized system with unprecedented access to data about Social Security, taxes, medical diagnoses and other private information would create vulnerabilities, experts say.

Commentary: Act now to shield New Yorkers' reproductive health data Gov. Hochul must sign a bill to protect users' private information on health-tracking apps, and other states need to pass ...

Blue Shield of California, a U.S. health insurance company, leaked sensitive health information to Google that belong to as many as 4.7 million members. The data shared may have included medical ...

Health insurance giant Blue Shield of California confirmed it had been sharing private health data of 4.7 million users with Google for three years without even realizing it.

Dive Brief: A data breach at Blue Shield of California exposed information from 4.7 million people, according to a notice filed with federal regulators earlier this month.