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Article | 23/09/2010 FTC settles privacy complaint against online data broker
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement with online data broker US Search on complaints that the company failed to deliver on promi...
Article | 23/09/2010 Canadian privacy commissioner ends Facebook probe
Canada's privacy commissioner has ended an investigation into Facebook's privacy practices by saying the social-networking site has resolved issues ra...
Article | 23/09/2010 Senators push for update to electronic privacy law
A 24-year-old law setting the rules on how law enforcement agencies can obtain electronic records needs to be updated because it's out of step with mo...
Article | 11/09/2010 Canada's info, privacy bodies want open government
Canada's information and privacy commissioners have become advocates for open government, issuing a joint resolution to support open government ideals...
Article | 9/09/2010 After Google incident, Wi-Fi data collection goes on
Four months ago, amidst a backlash from government regulators and privacy advocates, Google stopped collecting Wi-Fi data with its Street View cars. B...
Article | 4/09/2010 Consumer Watchdog thinks Google's Schmidt is a data perv
Imagine wandering through Times Square and seeing a 60-foot-tall animation depicting you (yes, you) as a creepy child-baiting ice cream truck driver. ...
Article | 4/09/2010 School uses anti-bullying app after suicide
A school district in South Hadley, Massachusetts, is hoping a specialized software application will help stop tragedies like the one that befell Phoeb...
Article | 6/09/2010 Google settles Buzz privacy lawsuit
Google is spending US$8.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed over the rollout of its Google Buzz social-networking service.
Article | 27/08/2010 US FTC drops P2P file sharing probe of LimeWire
In a rare break for LimeWire, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week decided to drop its investigation into the embattled software company's con...
Article | 17/08/2010 RIM may allow India to monitor instant messenger service
Research In Motion (RIM) has offered India some access to BlackBerry instant messages, according to media reports citing government officials. Talks h...
Article | 13/08/2010 Privacy software: Who are the early leaders?
Anybody responsible for data privacy soon discovers a hard truth -- privacy compliance is a highly manual undertaking. Whether it's tracking where all...
Article | 11/08/2010 Browsers' private modes leak info, say researchers
Browsing in "private mode" isn't as private as users think, a researcher said today.
Article | 10/08/2010 Tire tags reveal driver whereabouts
Researchers from Rutgers University and University of South Carolina have found that wireless communications between new cars and their tires can be i...
Article | 6/08/2010 Lawmakers question data collection at major sites
Two senior U.S. lawmakers say they're "troubled" by the collection of personal data at many websites, and they want details on how much data 15 popula...
Article | 31/07/2010 Free Android apps scrape personal data, send it to China
Between one and four million users of Android phones have downloaded wallpaper apps that swipe personal data from the phone and transmit it to a Chine...