Privacy advocates ask the government to restrict data auctioning. April 16, 2010— -- Do you ever get creeped out when an ad on a Web site seems to know something ...

Your personal data is a highly valuable commodity. Companies often treat it like a resource to be mined and traded. In practice, this means that everything you do on the Internet, what you search, ...

LAS VEGAS, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Dr. Latisha Smith, an expert in decompression sicknesses afflicting deep sea divers, has cleared criminal background checks throughout her medical career. Yet someone ...

Company Behind Major SSN Leak to Stop Selling User Data After hackers stole a huge trove of personal information, National Public Data quietly updates its site to note that all users will be opted out ...

French open-source data-integration vendor Talend SA today unveiled its data profiling application, which will allow companies to assess their data quality as a key part of data integration projects.