Data

The high cost of keeping your data private.

Techies are floating some big ideas around at SXSW.

Still images ran through facial recognition software developed by the U.S.

Sharing data and best practices have caused dramatic savings

Or will it just drive consumers nuts with invasive ads?

Tech companies are taking ownership -- and control -- of everything from the cloud to dark fiber.

Retailers are increasingly using data tracking to figure out what you want to buy.

Google says it’s going to boost its encryption efforts to better safeguard our data. It can't promise to keep us totally secure, but the effort's worth plenty of PR points.

If police want to track your movements using old calls you made on your cellphone, they can get the information from your cellphone company without a warrant.

At a Big Data industry conference in London, many industry experts find Edward Snowden's information dump unsurprising.