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TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Wed Mar 19, 2008 @ 8:08am neoform

MSNBC -- Facebook said on Tuesday it is introducing new privacy controls that give users of the fast-growing social networking site the ability to preserve social distinctions between friends, family and co-workers online. Facebook executives told reporters at.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Mon Nov 5, 2007 @ 12:39am neoform

The Register -- On October 8, 2007, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati granted the government's request for a full-panel hearing in United States v. Warshak case centering on the right of privacy for stored electronic communications. A.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Fri Sep 21, 2007 @ 10:29am neoform

Ars Technica -- DRM is certainly unpopular, but does it also break the law? A new report from the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (PDF) finds that many DRM technologies appear to violate Canadian privacy laws by gathering inappropriate personal inform.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Thu Sep 6, 2007 @ 3:43pm neoform

BBC News -- Popular social networking site Facebook has added a public-facing search function in a move which is likely to anger privacy advocates. The function will initially allow anyone who is not registered with the site to search for a specific person. Mor.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Fri May 25, 2007 @ 12:34pm neoform

BBC News -- 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... Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Mon Apr 16, 2007 @ 4:56pm neoform

Washington Post -- Microsoft said yesterday that Google's proposed purchase of Internet advertising company DoubleClick raises antitrust and privacy concerns that deserve careful review by authorities. Executives at the software giant said they talked over the weekend wi.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Wed Feb 7, 2007 @ 8:05am neoform

The Register -- The US Army is being sued by a privacy group that wants the military to come clean about how it monitors websites and soldiers' blogs for potential military leaks... Read More

TECHNOLOGY / OPINION Mon Nov 27, 2006 @ 4:13pm neoform

The Register -- The latest problem to be thrown at us, on top of war, global warming, disease etc, is that we are "sleepwalking into a surveillance society"... Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Fri Mar 7, 2008 @ 8:25am neoform

BBC News -- 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.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Thu Dec 20, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

BusinessWeek -- A former tech exec has produced a new film that examines privacy issues through the impassive eyes of surveillance cameras There are about 30 million surveillance cameras in the U.S.—inside ATM machines, at traffic lights, in department store dressin.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Tue Jun 12, 2007 @ 12:52pm neoform

BBC News -- Google has the worst privacy policy of popular net firms, says a report. Rights group Privacy International rated the search giant as "hostile" to privacy in a report ranking web firms by how they handle personal data. The group said Google was lead.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Mon Jun 11, 2007 @ 10:28am neoform

MSNBC -- Google Inc.'s privacy practices are the worst among the Internet's top destinations, according to a watchdog group seeking to intensify the recent focus on how the online search leader handles personal information about its users. In a report released.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Thu May 31, 2007 @ 10:13am neoform

BBC News -- Elements of Google's privacy policy are "vague" and need to be made more precise, the firm's global privacy counsel has told BBC News. Peter Fleischer said the company "could do better" with policy statements that explained why user information was som.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / OPINION Tue Mar 20, 2007 @ 7:49pm neoform

Alter Net -- Though finding vulnerabilities in software is usually beneficial for security, a recently released exploit sends privacy down the drain. Among hackers, exploitation is a social good. Exploiting a piece of software means discovering a little chink in it.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Sat Mar 17, 2007 @ 9:12pm neoform

Los Angeles Times -- Google Inc.'s memory is getting a little shorter. Just not short enough for some. The company adjusted its policies Wednesday to answer complaints that it never forgets what users have looked for. Google said it would continue to collect and maintai.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Wed Oct 18, 2006 @ 12:43pm neoform

Computer World -- Criticized in the past for an initiative that would require the company to collect and catalog personal information about its customers, Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday released an internal document about how it protects customers' privacy in the hopes that o.. Read More