"personal data" news, interviews, and features

News about personal data

• Ovum predicts turbulence for the Internet economy

  More than two-thirds of consumers say ‘no’ to Internet tracking

• Social Networks May Be Sharing Your Info with Advertisers

  Privacy loopholes continue to allow social networking sites to share users' info with advertisers.

• US consumers are data fatties, study finds

  An average American digests a whopping 34 gigabytes of information outside of work every day, a new study finds.

• UK gov't loses personal data on 4M people in one year

  Call for 'data guardians' to be appointed to monitor the government's handling of information.

Features about personal data

• 2009: The year your data died

  Data disasters at Microsoft, Apple and Facebook mean your data - and the Net itself - are more fragile than you may think