After a Data Breach, British Airways Faces a Record Fine The proposed penalty, for a breach that exposed the data of 500,000 customers, comes under Europe’s landmark privacy law. Read More…

Your Data Could Be at the Center of the Fight Against Big Tech Germany’s top antitrust official is urging other countries to take on Facebook and its peers by attacking what the companies value most: data. Read More…

When the Tools of the Trade Are the Keyboard and Mouse For Daisuke Wakabayashi, who covers Google, computer accessories are important. Very important. Read More…

Giuliani Says There Is ‘Nothing Wrong With Taking Information From Russians’ Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer, defended the Trump campaign’s behavior as fallout from the Mueller report played out on national television. Read More…

Australians Can’t Get Enough of the Barefoot Investor The all-time, best-selling nonfiction book in Australia is, somewhat surprisingly, a personal finance guide. And its 39-year-old author, Scott Pape, is a national celebrity. Read More…

Stanford Team Aims at Alexa and Siri With a Privacy-Minded Alternative A handful of companies already dominate the market for digital assistants. The implications for consumer privacy are a serious concern, researchers say. Read More…

Consider Firing Your Male Broker Years of research show female investors outperform men. But only about 1 in 5 brokers are women. Read More…

From an Iconoclast and an Icon, Poems of Personal and Public Transformation In “Evolution,” Eileen Myles makes us reconsider the nature of experience and imagination. Read More…

To Counter Loneliness, Find Ways to Connect Much of modern life, though seeming to promote connectivity, has had the opposite effect of fostering social isolation and loneliness, experts say. Read More…