We are in the midst of a data revolution, and driving this seismic change isn't just Facebook or Google, but information we readily give up everyday through our online activities. In "Dragnet Nation," ...

To understand how much commerce has changed in recent years, consider a simple trip to the grocery store. When you drive to the store now, your movements are recorded by your cellphone provider, your ...

St. Martin’s Griffin, 2015 (us.macmillan.com), 299 pages, $15.99. ISBN 978-1-250-06086-0 If it’s digital, then there’s a record. So when you go online, you are tracked. Everything from identity ...

Julia Angwin might want to cut Edward Snowden some royalty checks. As a reporter for the Wall Street Journal from 2000 to 2013, Angwin reported for years about the intersection of privacy and new ...

Julia Angwin wants her privacy back. She has closed her LinkedIn account, unfriended all of her Facebook friends, and opened an American Express card under an assumed name: that of her hero and role ...

When detectives in a Phoenix suburb arrested a warehouse worker in a homicide investigation last December, they credited a new technique with breaking open the case after other leads went cold. The ...