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• Article | 24/05/2012 Lawmakers call on DOJ to reopen investigation into Google Wi-Fi spying

  Two U.S. lawmakers have called on the U.S. Department of Justice to reopen its investigation into Google's snooping on Wi-Fi networks in 2010 after re...
• Article | 24/05/2012 Lawmakers call on DOJ to reopen investigation into Google Wi-Fi spying

  Two U.S. lawmakers have called on the U.S. Department of Justice to reopen its investigation into Google's snooping on Wi-Fi networks in 2010 after re...
• Article | 24/05/2012 Researchers propose TLS extension to detect rogue SSL certificates

  A pair of security researchers have proposed an extension to the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol that would allow browsers to detect and block...
• Article | 24/05/2012 European privacy regulators want more detail on Google's policy changes

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• Article | 23/05/2012 Study: Patriot Act gives US government no special acess to cloud data

  An often-repeated concern that the U.S. Patriot Act gives the U.S. government unequaled access to personal data stored on cloud services is incorrect,...
• Article | 23/05/2012 Microsoft takes Bing Streetside offline in Germany after privacy complaints

  Microsoft has taken its Google Street View-like service Bing Streetside offline in Germany after German citizens expressed their worries about how Mic...
• Article | 22/05/2012 FTC appoints privacy advocate as adviser

  The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has hired Paul Ohm, a privacy advocate and critic of current online privacy practices, as a senior privacy adviser f...
• Article | 12/05/2012 Facebook proposes more changes to privacy policy

  Facebook said on Friday that it intends to make further changes to its privacy policy in order to respond to an audit by the Irish government, but pri...
• Article | 11/05/2012 California moves to stop employers demanding Facebook passwords

  The California assembly passed a bill on Thursday that prevents employers from demanding job applicants' passwords for accounts on Facebook or other s...
• Article | 9/05/2012 Twitter resists subpoena to release user's data without warrant

  Twitter is contesting a court order requiring it to turn over private data on a user charged with disorderly conduct during the Occupy Wall Street pro...
• Article | 9/05/2012 Myspace settles FTC privacy complaint

  Social networking site Myspace has agreed to settle charges from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that it misrepresented its protection of users' per...
• Article | 5/05/2012 Fewer than half of Facebook and Google users understood the sites' privacy policies

  Most users of Facebook and Google had fundamental gaps in understanding, even after reading privacy policies, about how the websites handled their inf...
• Article | 4/05/2012 Mobile experts disagree on who should protect privacy

  Users of mobile apps need more information about the ways those apps use their personal information, a group of experts agreed Thursday, but they didn...
• Article | 3/05/2012 Hackers blackmail Belgian bank with threats to publish customer data

  Hackers claimed to have breached the systems of the Belgian credit provider Elantis and threatened to publish confidential customer information if the...
• Article | 1/05/2012 Privacy group calls for new hearings on Google StreetView snooping

  U.S. lawmakers should reopen an investigation into the snooping on Wi-Fi networks by Google's Street View cars because of information in a U.S. Federa...