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NSA Struggles to Make Sense of Flood of Surveillance Data

A former NSA employee says the agency knows so much, that it can’t understand what it has.

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Professor to Try to Salvage Troubled “Do Not Track” Deal

Web users who want to turn off tracking must install tracking files from more than 100 companies.

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On Google, a Political Mystery That’s All Numbers

Google’s quest to guess what we want before we want it has produced an unusual side effect: A disparity in the results the company presents about the presidential candidates.

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Don’t Like This Price? Wait a Minute.

The fast-moving Internet pricing games used by airlines and hotels are now moving deeper into the most mundane nooks of the consumer economy.

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Selling You on Facebook

Not so long ago, there was a familiar product called software.

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Google in New Privacy Probes

Regulators in the U.S. and European Union are investigating Google Inc. for bypassing the privacy settings of millions of users of Apple Inc.’s Safari Web browser, according to people familiar with the investigations. Google stopped the practice last month after being contacted by The Wall Street Journal.

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Web Firms to Adopt “No Track” Button

A coalition of Internet giants including Google Inc. has agreed to support a do-not-track button to be embedded in most Web browsers — a move that the industry had been resisting for more than a year.

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Google’s iPhone Tracking

Google Inc. and other advertising companies have been bypassing the privacy settings of millions of people using Apple Inc.’s Web browser on their iPhones and computers — tracking the Web-browsing habits of people who intended for that kind of monitoring to be blocked.

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Google Expands Tracking on Sites

In a controversial move, Google Inc. said it will track users’ activities across nearly all of its services, and that in many cases, users can’t opt out of the tracking.

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The Surveillance Catalog

Documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal open a rare window into a new global market for the off-the-shelf surveillance technology that has arisen in the decade since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.