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Article | 14/05/2010 Facebook and privacy: What a mess
Facebook has just unveiled a new set of user controls, but it isn't likely to do much in the way of calming anger about the social network's privacy p...
Article | 7/05/2010 Facebook Privacy Complaint: A Complete Breakdown
The Electronic Privacy Information Center and 14 other consumer protection groups lodged a formal complaint against Facebook with the Federal Trade Co...
Article | 29/04/2010 Facebook execs answer new privacy criticisms
Facebook will work with U.S. lawmakers to address concerns about privacy following the social-networking site's announcement a week ago that it was sh...
Article | 28/04/2010 US senators get testy with Facebook over privacy
Two more U.S. Senators have taken issue with Facebook's "opt-out" approach to recent privacy changes, asking the social networking site to change its ...
Article | 28/04/2010 Facebook seeks to meet with US senator on privacy issues
Executives at Facebook Inc. say they have so far been unsuccessful in efforts to meet with a U.S. senator who has been publicly pushing the social net...
Article | 31/03/2010 Tech firms, privacy groups want new e-privacy law
A coalition of tech vendors and privacy groups is calling on the U.S. Congress to update a 24-year-old law to better protect users of e-mail, cloud co...
Article | 30/03/2010 Facebook mulls privacy changes, causes more outrage
Facebook users are expressing strong disapproval of proposed privacy changes that will let the site share some user information with third-party Web s...
Article | 27/03/2010 Facebook proposes changes to its terms and policies
Facebook is proposing tweaks to its site governance documents so that they will be consistent with new services the social networking company plans to...
Article | 28/03/2010 Browser fingerprints: A big privacy threat
Forget cookies -- even the ultrasneaky, Flash-based "super cookies." A new type of tracking may identify you far more accurately than any cookie -- an...
Article | 10/02/2010 Telstra promotes Safer Internet Day
Telstra has urged Australian Internet users to be wary about the information they post online as part of Safer Internet Day.
Article | 1/02/2010 EFF: Browsers can leave a unique trail on the Web
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has created an on-line tool that details the wealth of information a Web browser reveals, which can pose privacy co...
Article | 12/01/2010 Facebook CEO Zuckerberg causes stir over privacy
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's contention last week that privacy is becoming less important to online users caused a stir across the Internet and amon...
Article | 24/09/2009 Social networking sites leaking personal information to third parties, study warns
Many major social networking sites are leaking information that allows third party advertising and tracking companies to associate the Web browsing ha...
Article | 24/07/2009 EFF urges members to pressure Google on books privacy
Digital liberties group the Electronic Frontier Foundation is urging its supporters to pressure Google to build significant privacy protections into i...
Article | 21/07/2009 Who's really reading your Facebook top five lists?
You should be aware that you're sharing your lists with more than just your Facebook friends.

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