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    The NSA wiretapping story that nobody wanted 18/07/2009 09:35:00

    They sometimes call national security the third rail of politics. Touch it and, politically, you're dead.
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    Google's new OS raises privacy, antitrust concerns 09/07/2009 04:42:00

    Google's announcement Tuesday that it is developing an open-source operating system raised questions among privacy advocates about the amount of personal data Google will be able to collect.
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    US lawmakers target deep packet inspection in privacy bill 24/04/2009 05:05:00

    U.S. lawmakers plan to introduce privacy legislation that would limit how Internet service providers can track their users, despite reports that no U.S. ISPs are using such technologies except for legitimate security reasons.
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    Google plays down security concerns over Docs 30/03/2009 07:09:00

    Google Docs users shouldn't lose sleep over the security concerns a security analyst has raised about the hosted suite of office productivity applications, Google said late Friday.
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    Kundra takes leave, Google raises privacy flags 16/03/2009 08:54:00

    Well, at least the issue is not unpaid taxes this time -- but Vivek Kundra, the brand-new, first-ever federal CIO after just a few days on the job is already on a leave of absence after the office of the Washington, D.C., CTO was raided by federal agents. Kundra had been the District's CTO before President Barack Obama appointed him the nation's CIO. In other news, Google peeved privacy advocates by announcing a behavioral advertising program and separately saying it is testing a new service that will transcribe voice-mail messages and make them searchable.
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    Are Facebook's outraged users getting a wake-up call? 19/02/2009 08:11:00

    After outraged users hammered Facebook for changing its terms-of-use policy to seemingly give the company vast control over users' content, analysts are wondering if the brouhaha will serve as the long-awaited wake-up call for users to think before they post.
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    Privacy advocates question Google's YouTube monitoring 08/07/2008 09:38:52

    The privacy concerns raised by a federal judge's order that Google turn over 12TB of data on YouTube users and their video-viewing histories to Viacom International misses an important point, according to some privacy advocates: What is Google doing collecting and retaining all that data in the first place?
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    Privacy groups to Google: What took you so long? 08/07/2008 08:10:28

    Privacy groups are glad that Google has finally placed a link to its privacy policy on its home page, but they said it was something the search engine company was legally obligated to do anyway.
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    Ask.com places privacy policy link in home page 19/06/2008 09:00:23

    Ask.com has decided to put a link to its privacy policy on its home page, something that search-engine rival Google has declined to do and that has earned it criticism from privacy advocates.
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    Google asked to add home page link to privacy policies 04/06/2008 09:44:49

    In the latest indication of the growing unease in some quarters over Google's privacy policies, a coalition of advocacy groups is asking the search company to provide a direct link to its privacy policies on its home page.
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    Defending "Fixing the Internet" 19/05/2008 10:10:39

    Last week I publicly released a white paper called Fixing the Internet: A Security Solution in this blog.
 
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