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Article | 21/05/2010 Social Networks May Be Sharing Your Info with Advertisers
Lately, social networking sites have been bending over backwards to assure their users that user privacy is of utmost importance--but it may have all ...
Article | 21/05/2010 Google Street View Privacy Breach: Lawmakers Get Mad
Want a metric for the speed of US government? Just look at the response to Google Street View cars' accidental collection of private data.
Article | 20/05/2010 Germany launches criminal investigation of Google
German prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation over whether Google broke data protection regulations when it collected fragments of Wi-Fi d...
Article | 21/05/2010 Study: 60 per cent of Facebook users mulling to quit
Due to prevailing privacy concerns, several Facebook members are thinking to quit the popular social networking site -- at least 60% of them -- accord...
Article | 21/05/2010 A bill of rights for Facebook users
Like it or not, Facebook has become a fact of life. Many of us depend on the service to share our interests and life events with our friends. In my ex...
Article | 20/05/2010 Google Street View faces investigation in France and Italy
Data protection authorities in France and Italy have joined Germany in investigating Google's Street View service, following the company's admission l...
Article | 19/05/2010 Students to see photos snapped in US school 'spying' case
Students in two suburban Philadelphia high schools will be allowed to view photographs taken by their school-issued laptops, and may preview them firs...
Article | 19/05/2010 Privacy expert: It's good PR to say no to the government
A leading privacy researcher is urging companies to say no to government requests for data, arguing that it's good for business.
Article | 19/05/2010 EFF: Forget cookies, your browser has fingerprints
Even without cookies, popular browsers such as Internet Explorer and Firefox give Web sites enough information to get a unique picture of their visito...
Article | 17/05/2010 Google stops sniffing Wi-Fi data after privacy gaffe
Google has decided to stop its Street View cars from sniffing wireless networking data after an embarrassing privacy gaffe.
Article | 13/05/2010 Google search anonymizer up and running again
A service that allows Google's search engine to be used anonymously is running again after a code change briefly knocked it down.
Article | 6/05/2010 Facebook vs. LinkedIn: Which has the better privacy?
Privacy advocates' criticism over recent moves by Facebook and Google Buzz begs the question: Is privacy possible in a social network? And, if so, whi...
Article | 6/05/2010 Facebook bug exposes private chats
A bug allowed Facebook users to view their friends' chat sessions on the site, prompting the social-networking company to disable its internal instant...
Article | 5/05/2010 Lawmakers unveil online privacy legislation
Two U.S. lawmakers have released a draft bill that would require companies that collect personal information from customers to disclose how they colle...
Article | 21/04/2010 Google, YouTube received 10,000 government requests for user data
Google and the Google-owned YouTube received more than 10,000 requests for user data from government agencies in the six months ending Dec. 31, 2009, ...

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