Internet privacy

China takes the lead in training governments to adopt censorship policies and tools to curb fake news on the internet.

During the five-hour hearing, US lawmakers questioned Zuckerberg on the company’s troubles abroad, as well as whether the company plans to use forthcoming European regulations on data protections as a global standard across its platforms.

Last month, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it has been collecting social media information from visa applicants and immigrants. It said it plans to expand gathering of social media data to include aliases, associated identifiable information and search results. Privacy and civil rights advocates are up in arms.

It’s been 20 years since HIPAA passed, but it’s still tough to get a hold of one’s own medical records.

How some websites — like MSN and Hulu — track your online activities by using ‘supercookies,’ which are nearly impossible to delete.