If your login info was exposed, don't panic -- but don't ignore it either. Here's how to secure your accounts, change ...

Fintech lender Figure suffered a social-engineering breach that led to a data dump online. Have I Been Pwned found 967,200 exposed email records.

It lives on your devices, works 24/7, makes its own decisions, and has access to your most sensitive files. Think twice ...

Hundreds of popular add‑ons used encrypted, URL‑sized payloads to send search queries, referrers, and timestamps to outside servers, in some cases tied to data brokers and unknown operators.

Data company leaders aren’t interested in histrionics and handwaving.

At WSJ Invest Live, Jon Gray shared optimism for the health of the private-credit market and discussed Blackstone’s investment strategy in AI infrastructure. Investors’ fears that new developments in ...

Geoff’s column hunts for how tech can make your life better — and advocates for you when tech lets you down. Got a question or topic to investigate? Geoffrey.Fowler@washpost.com and geoffreyfowler.88 ...

We’ve all Googled ourselves, and I’m confident in saying that, regardless of whatever actually pops up, everyone’s results are inevitably creepy. If you dig deep enough, chances are that someone can ...

SpaceX uses your data to train its machine learning and AI models and might share that with partners who 'help us develop AI-enabled tools that improve your customer experience.' From the laptops on ...

California just gave its 40 million residents a permanent delete button for a largely covert part of the personal data economy. On New Year’s Day, a government website opened to let Californians ...

Life might not be entirely paperless yet, but the truth is that the vast majority of our important documents, photos, videos and other files are all now digital. This is good, as it saves space in our ...

Google is shutting down a feature that many people used to check whether their personal information had ended up in data breaches. The company has confirmed that its dark web report tool will stop ...