Cybersecurity

Twitter Is Telling All of its Users to Change Their Passwords

The passwords of every account—all 336 million of them—have been exposed in an internal log.

Modernization

GDPR and the compliance conundrum

The General Data Protection Regulation's effects already are being felt far beyond the European Union.

Digital Government

Facebook’s New Data Sharing Policies, Translated So a 13-Year-Old Can Understand

A breakdown of the biggest takeaways from Facebook’s new terms of service, including its data and privacy policies.

Digital Government

A Facebook Co-Founder Says Facebook Should Pay Us For Our Data

“Data is the common wealth that we’re all creating for the future century."

Digital Government

Facebook Has Revealed the Hyper-Specific Internal Rules It Uses to Police Content

The company is publishing updated “Community Standards” that spell out for users exactly what they are allowed to post, and what is forbidden.

Digital Government

The Man Who Harvested Facebook Data for Cambridge Analytica Doesn’t Think He Affected the 2016 Election

Aleksandr Kogan, the Cambridge University academic who created the app that helped the data analysis firm obtain the personal information of millions, finally speaks out.

Digital Government

Facebook Attempts to Limit Reach of EU Privacy Law

About 1.5 billion Facebook users around the world could see some changes to their terms of service.

Artificial Intelligence

The Billion-Dollar, Alibaba-Backed AI Company That’s Quietly Watching People in China

SenseTime is one of a handful of companies at the forefront of China’s artificial intelligence boom.

Digital Government

The Dot-Coms Were Better Than Facebook

Twenty years ago, another high-profile tech executive testified before Congress. It was a more innocent time.

Policy

There's No Better Time to Pass Privacy Laws, Experts Say

Tech companies, experts argued, aren’t really going to police themselves.

Digital Government

The Most Important Exchange of the Zuckerberg Hearing

The Facebook CEO’s defense of data collection is slipperier than it seems.

Emerging Tech

Five Things the World Finally Realizes About Facebook

The questions Mark Zuckerberg is being pressed to answer are bigger than the platform.

Emerging Tech

Mark Zuckerberg Says He’s Not Resigning

In an interview, the Facebook CEO tells The Atlantic he’s not walking away from the company, but he is looking for outside expertise.