After a two-year-study, the Federal Trade Commission called for Congress to pass legislation to protect privacy in the digital era and urged big data brokers to give consumers the right to see their data. The White House called for legislation to create a "privacy bill of rights" that would give people greater control over their data, likely setting off a long battle over how exactly the new policies will take shape. Lawmakers and regulators are trying to do more to address consumer concerns about the difficulty of removing personal data permanently from websites that collect it and make it available for background checks and other uses. Wall Street Journal Research Many popular Facebook apps obtain sensitive information about users -- and users' friends -- so don't be surprised if details about your religious, political and even sexual preferences flow to unexpected places. A judge in Texas is raising questions about whether investigators are giving courts enough details on technological tools that let them get data on all the cellphones in an area, including those of innocent people. A recent online video shows that Facebook scans the links you're sending - registering them as though you "Like" the page you sent. It's just one example of how online messages that seem private are often actually examined by computers for data. Watched: A Wall Street Journal Privacy Report As surveillance technologies decline in cost and grow in sophistication, tracking of many aspects of our daily activities, even the seemingly mundane, has become