A German journalist recently sent me a few questions about data privacy for an article he's writing. (more…)

Last August I wrote about the (Still Coming) Privacy Boom. I was frustrated while reporting that companies weren't coming up with enough new technologies and services for…

For readers of this blog, it's certainly no secret: Data-crunching analytics is a raging trend in business. Companies are racing to capture and distill every data morcel…

Do you have an Hewlett-Packard printer, maybe a few HP laptops and PCs spread around the home or office? If so, you may exist in HP's records…

In the coming years, we'll in inundated with data about our bodies. In The Numerati, I followed Intel's efforts to create data streams describing the lives of…

The New York Times article on the arm of my chair is about the plight of poor workers in South Africa. With a few key words, Google…

A year ago, at a cover meeting at BusinessWeek, I proposed a big story: The Privacy Pay-off. The idea was that tracking and other data surveillance would…

In the future, as I see it, each one of us will be monitored by dozens of machines. They'll keep an eye on our heart patterns, our…

Let's say you're a 26-year-old accountant. You're wondering about your future, and it's easy to see the three most common paths. You climb up in an accounting…

Ten years ago, we were living in a beautiful apartment in Paris and sending our kids to private school there. This was all subsidized by generous ex-pat…