Julia Angwin

A new kind of tracking tool, canvas fingerprinting, is being used to follow visitors to thousands of top ...

For years people have noticed a funny thing about Facebook's ubiquitous Like button. It has been sending data ...

Online marketers are increasingly seeking to track users offline, as well, by collecting data about people's offline habits—such ...

In the course of writing my book, "Dragnet Nation", I tried various strategies to protect my privacy. In ...

“Where R U?” There’s a reason that is among the most common text messages of the age. Location ...

In the course of writing her book, Dragnet Nation, ProPublica reporter Julia Angwin tried various strategies to protect her ...