Julia Angwin

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Selling You on Facebook

Julia Angwin and Jeremy Singer-Vine, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Voices on April 7 at 7:41 pm PT

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

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Google in New Privacy Probes

Julia Angwin, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 16 at 3:30 am PT

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

Julia Angwin, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 23 at 3:00 am PT

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

Julia Angwin and Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on February 17 at 4:11 am PT

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

Julia Angwin, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 24 at 4:04 pm PT

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

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Jeremy Singer-Vine, Zachary M. Seward, Julia Angwin, Courtney Banks, Scott Thurm and Ashkan Soltani, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 19, 2011 at 4:00 am PT

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.

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Facebook, FTC Near Privacy Settlement

Julia Angwin and Shayndi Raice, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Social on November 10, 2011 at 1:15 pm PT

Facebook Inc. is finalizing a proposed settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over charges that it engaged in deceptive behavior when changing its privacy settings, according to people familiar with the situation.

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Judges Weigh Phone Tracking

Julia Angwin and Scott Thurm, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Voices on November 9, 2011 at 4:45 am PT

State and federal authorities follow the movements of thousands of Americans each year by secretly monitoring the location of their cellphones, often with little judicial oversight, in a practice facing legal challenges.

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Privacy Study: Top U.S. Web Sites Share Visitor Personal Data

Julia Angwin, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 11, 2011 at 3:41 pm PT

A study released Tuesday shows that 45 percent of the top 185 U.S. Web sites transmit identifying details about their visitors to at least four outside Web sites.

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Secret Orders Target Email

Julia Angwin, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 10, 2011 at 3:45 am PT

The U.S. government has obtained a controversial type of secret court order to force Google Inc. and small Internet provider Sonic.net Inc. to turn over information from the email accounts of WikiLeaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.