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Article | 8/12/2010 Microsoft spells out anti-tracking tool in IE9
Microsoft today said that the next major milestone of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) will let users determine who tracks their movement and behavior online...
Article | 8/12/2010 IE9 to let users block tracking
The next version of Internet Explorer will let users turn on "tracking protection," a new mechanism that will block specified third-party sites from t...
Article | 3/12/2010 With WikiLeaks, Amazon shows its power over customers
WASHINGTON - Amazon is a prominent company in the U.S. Its cloud servers host the U.S. government's Recovery.gov stimulus spending Web site, and it is...
Article | 26/11/2010 NHS link to Facebook raises privacy concerns
The U.K.'s National Health Service plans to make clearer the privacy policy of its Choices health information Web site, which shares browsing informat...
Article | 17/11/2010 Privacy questions trail Facebook Messages
After Facebook's struggle with one privacy issue after another this year, some in the industry are raising privacy questions about Facebook's new mess...
Article | 16/11/2010 Big Business is watching you
In the 1949 novel 1984, George Orwell imagined a brilliant but depressing future in which the government, a.k.a. "Big Brother," broadcast propaganda w...
Article | 11/11/2010 Google vs Facebook: Adult supervision desperately needed
You'd think the drinking water in Silicon Valley has been replaced with baby formula, given how childish some of the biggest companies in tech have ac...
Article | 11/11/2010 Google, Facebook duke it out over user data
Things are getting a bit heated between two of the largest Internet companies as they spar over users' data.
Article | 11/11/2010 Gemalto launches credit card with built-in password generator
Smart card vendor Gemalto introduced a new credit card Wednesday that's capable of generating one-time-passwords (OTP) for electronic banking and paym...
Article | 8/11/2010 Zscaler develops free tool to detect Firesheep snooping
A security company has developed a free Firefox add-on that warns when someone on the same network is using Firesheep, a tool that has raised alarm ov...
Article | 5/11/2010 Microsoft: Cloud services hampered by unclear data rules
The patchwork of rules across Europe regarding the handling of data poses a hurdle for Microsoft's efforts to provide cloud-based services, a senior M...
Article | 3/11/2010 Firesheep not evil, says snooping tool's maker
The security researcher who created the Firesheep snooping tool defended his work today, saying it's no one's business what software people run on the...
Article | 3/11/2010 Street View goes live in Germany with blurred images
Google gingerly launched a select set of Street View images for Germany on Tuesday, a country where it has faced some of the most fierce opposition to...
Article | 2/11/2010 Facebook punishes developers for passing on user IDs
Facebook is punishing several application developers for passing certain information to a data broker in the latest move by the social networking site...
Article | 29/10/2010 Google: Street View cars no longer in operation in Australia
Google has confirmed that its Street View program has ceased operations in Australia following the fallout of its Wi-Fi data collection controversy ea...