Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A customer looks at a laptop computer for sale last year. Comprehensive consumer privacy laws are taking effect in eight states ...

The cost of fragmented identity infrastructure is real, but it's hidden in operational friction, complexity and risk rather ...

Influenced by advancements in AI and wearable technology, and fueled by privacy concerns, reproductive health data is at a pivotal intersection of federal and state regulations. Traditionally, the ...

The past complexity of data privacy is even more reason to take an affirmative position for its future, especially now, as the next technological revolution arrives. In March, Sens. Ed Markey and Bill ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is Part One of a two-part series. There is a commonly held belief that legal-ethical regulation is unable to keep up with the pace of technology. The belief is so prevalent that it ...

The Globe’s April 13 editorial, “23andMe bankruptcy highlights need for data protection law,” noted that around 20 states — not including Massachusetts — have enacted consumer data privacy laws.

More states are passing laws to protect information generated by a person's brain and nervous system as technology improves the ability to unlock the sensitive details of a person's health, mental ...

Top Democrats in the Massachusetts Senate released legislation that seeks to bolster consumer privacy laws in the state by limiting the type of data large companies can store and collect from ...

Lawmakers voted along party lines to advance LD 1822, but an amendment exempting political groups from the proposed data privacy law sparked intense debate.

In 1998, the Children’s Online Privacy and Protection Act became law. COPPA was designed with the future of the Internet in mind. Dotcoms were fast on their way to ...