Some states have built contact tracing apps, but a decades-old manual process is the norm in most places as officials address widespread privacy concerns.

The city is asking companies for ideas as it solves challenges of data and infrastructure on the road to an entirely electric vehicle fleet.

Sidewalk Labs backed out of its "smart neighborhood" project in Toronto, but Ann Cavoukian said its flagrant misreading of the public's privacy concerns may continue to haunt the company.

Restaurants able to reopen for table service will be required to store diners' names and phone numbers as part of Washington's COVID-19 contact-tracing efforts.

Revisions to Washington, D.C.'s, 2007 breach-notification add more categories of protected personal data and new powers for the city's attorney general to investigate breaches.

A provision that would require companies to get individuals' consent before selling geolocation and browsing data is drawing sharp opposition from the ad industry.

Whether Toronto's controversial Quayside project will continue will be settled in a meeting between city stakeholders and Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs on Thursday.

Dozens of state government entities practice faulty data security polices that often do not follow widely accepted standards, the state auditor found.

Telecommunications companies with customers in the Aloha State may continue selling their location data to third parties, unfettered by state regulation.