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The names, social security numbers and drivers licenses of over 100,000 students and faculty of six Florida colleges were available online for five days earlier this summer. Affected people are

Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism released a study today examining the media's ambivalent approach to addressing technology finding that, among other things, the positive effects of technology

It's often said that services like Facebook, Foursquare, Twitter - you name it - are not the product, you are. Each and every bit of information you share and action

After several months of anticipation, Facebook will begin rolling out location-based status updates sometime this month, according to reports from Advertising Age. As has been said time and again, this

We're now over halfway through 2011 and it's been another year of technology disruption. This time last year, the focus was on Apple's groundbreaking iPad and the impact it had

Even as Facebook moves to improve and simplify privacy options for the social network's 750 million users, a group of independent researchers are proposing even greater security measures, specifically for

Earlier this morning, Google launched the Google Dashboard. This new feature gives users a quick overview of the Google products they use and a slice of the data that is

It's Facebook's 6th birthday today and it's been a very big year. On February 4th, 2004 then 20-year old Mark Zuckerberg launched TheFacebook.com from his Harvard dorm-room. At this time

German authorities have recently expressed skepticism about cloud computing and the potential it has for breaking data protection laws. According to the Information Law Group, there is no imminent danger

Let's get this out of the way first: yes, we found this on Quora, the Q&A service poised for media overhype as the second coming of Twitter or blogging or