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Article | 6/04/2013 Facebook weighs in on Home's privacy implications
Facebook has posted a Q&A on its website about the privacy implications of its new Facebook Home software for Android phones, though it was unclear if...
Article | 2/04/2013 Six European privacy regulators launch formal investigations of Google's privacy policy
Six European data protection authorities will conduct formal investigations of Google's privacy policy after the company repeatedly rejected their req...
Article | 21/03/2013 Bills would require police to get warrants for mobile phone location
A group of U.S. lawmakers has introduced legislation that would require law enforcement agencies to get court-ordered search warrants before obtaining...
Article | 19/03/2013 Lawmakers call for greater protections from e-surveillance
If U.S. law enforcement agencies agree to changes in electronic surveillance law to better protect the privacy of stored email and documents, they wan...
Article | 18/03/2013 Site hosting leaked celebrity data goes offline
A site that published the private information and credit reports of several celebrities and other public figures last week went offline on Sunday. The...
Article | 18/03/2013 Facebook quickly fixes privacy leak in new timeline, group says
Facebook quickly fixed a privacy leak in its new timeline after being alerted to the problem, according to a watchdog that follows the social-networki...
Article | 14/03/2013 EU privacy watchdogs tell app developers and app stores to take care of users' data
New recommendations from Europe's top privacy watchdog could have big ramifications for Google Play, Apple and application developers.
Article | 11/03/2013 Before Google Glass is released, it's already banned
Before an official pair has even been released, a Seattle cafe has banned customers from wearing Google's computerised eye glasses inside the business...
Article | 11/03/2013 Lack of HTTPS on iOS App Store left users open to attacks, researcher says
Until late January, Apple's App Store servers did not encrypt all communications with iOS clients, which exposed users to several potential attacks, a...
Article | 8/03/2013 FTC: Mobile carriers should take steps to fight bill cramming
Mobile carriers should deploy a number of safeguards to protect their customers against a growing problem of unauthorized billing through mobile payme...
Article | 8/03/2013 With SecuSmart chip, German officials free to talk and type securely on BlackBerry Z10
German government officials including Chancellor Angela Merkel could soon be communicating about classified matters using BlackBerry Z10 smartphones e...
Article | 7/03/2013 Uniscon document exchange service uses two-factor authentication, stores no passwords
Uniscon's IDgard, a service for securely exchanging documents between companies and their clients or partners, uses two-factor authentication and stor...
Article | 6/03/2013 US lawmakers introduce electronic surveillance reform bill
Three U.S. lawmakers have introduced a bill to provide more protection from government surveillance for people who store data in the cloud.
Article | 1/03/2013 Tech groups question new do-not-track bill
New legislation in the U.S. Senate that would allow Internet users to tell companies to stop tracking them is unnecessary and could slow e-commerce gr...
Article | 1/03/2013 Japanese agency warns of information-stealing Android porn app
A Japanese Internet security agency has issued a public warning about Android apps that offer free images of scantily clad models to trick users into ...