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BBC News
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People searching the web for information on suicide are more likely to find sites encouraging the act than offering support, a study says.
Researchers used four search engines to look for suicide-related sites, the British Medical Journal said.
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Wired
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romises of Hollywood fame and fortune persuaded a young hacker to betray former associates in the BitTorrent scene to Tinseltown's anti-piracy lobby, according to the hacker.
In an exclusive interview with Wired News, gun-for-hire hacker Robert Anderso..
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MSNBC
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A disk carrying the Social Security numbers and other personal information on all 64,000 Ohio state employees was stolen from a state worker’s car last weekend, Gov. Ted Strickland said Friday.
Strickland said it takes special equipment to access the..
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Los Angeles Times
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Information may be power, but collecting too much of it could cause Google Inc. trouble.
The Internet search leader said Tuesday that the Federal Trade Commission had launched an antitrust review of its plan to buy DoubleClick Inc., an online advertisi..
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BBC News
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Google has been told that it may be breaking European privacy laws by keeping people's search information on its servers for up to two years.
A data protection group that advises the European Union has written to the search giant to express concerns...
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SF Gate
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A hacker or hackers stole data from at least 45.7 million credit and debit cards of shoppers at off-price retailers including T.J. Maxx and Marshalls in a case believed to be the largest such breach of consumer information.
For the first time since dis..
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American Constitution Society Blog
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Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act provides that "[no] provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider," and that "[n]o cause o..
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BBC News
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Workers distracted by email and phone calls suffer a fall in IQ more than twice that found in marijuana smokers, new research has claimed...
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Ars Technica
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US Customs and Border Protection issued a notice in the Federal Register yesterday which detailed the agency's massive database that keeps risk assessments on every traveler entering or leaving the country. Citizens who are concerned that their informati..
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BBC News
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The world's most popular social networking site MySpace is to allow users to make their information available to other websites.
Its "data availability" project will let members share public profile information with Yahoo, Twitter, eBay and Photobucket..
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BBC News
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Ad-targeting system Phorm must be "opt in" when it is rolled out, says the Information Commissioner Office (ICO)
European data protection laws demand that users must choose to enrol in the controversial system, said the ICO in an amended statement...
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BBC News
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Encrypted information held on a laptop is more vulnerable than previously thought, US research has shown.
Scientists have shown that it is possible to recover the key that unscrambles data from a PC's memory.
It was previously thought that data held..
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BBC News
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Two respected privacy campaigners have praised the user protection measures of a controversial online advertising system about to be deployed in the UK.
The tools, developed by US firm Phorm, track users' online surfing habits.
BT, Virgin and Talk T..
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BBC News
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The latest version of web browser Firefox will make changes to the way people search for information online, says its developer.
Mozilla has told the BBC's World Service that the new browser has been designed around the importance of search to users...
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BusinessWeek
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In today's environment where independent information about a product is plentiful, traditional one-way messages to consumers no longer work
It's no secret the Internet has changed the way consumers get information about products and the companies that..
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BBC News
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Broadband firms could face formal action if they fail to give consumers accurate information about the speed they will get when they sign up.
The warning comes from Ofcom as it moves to ensure that net firms do not oversell broadband in advertising...
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MSNBC
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Hackers stole millions of credit card numbers from discount retailer TJX Cos. by intercepting wireless transfers of customer information at two Miami-area Marshalls stores, according to an eight-month investigation by the Canadian government.
The probe..
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Ars Technica
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Last month, Swedish security specialist Dan Egerstad exposed the passwords and login information for 100 e-mail accounts on embassy and government servers. In a blog entry today, Egerstad disclosed his methodology. He collected the information by running..
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CNN
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Most people missed the announcement about how Google wants to burrow inside your brain and capture your most intimate thoughts. That's because it never happened.
But Google, the world leader in Web search services, is the focus of mounting paranoia ove..
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BBC News
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Social networking website MySpace has agreed to provide police with information about convicted US sex offenders, removed from its service.
The site's owner - News Corp - had previously been criticised for refusing a request from eight US states to div..
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