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Article | 23/02/2010 School spycam case raises FBI eyebrows
Somebody's fibbing in the case of a Pennsylvania school that using Webcams in loaned laptops, and now the FBI may have to sort out the truth.
Article | 22/02/2010 Irate parents in Pa. say schools use 'peeping tom technology'
The parents of a Pennsylvania high school student have asked a federal judge to bar school district personnel from switching on cameras in school-issu...
Article | 18/02/2010 EPIC files privacy complaint against Google Buzz
Despite the changes that Google has made to Buzz following negative reaction to the service, the Electronic Privacy Information Center has filed a com...
Article | 17/02/2010 Facebook hit with class action over privacy changes
A class action lawsuit has been filed against Facebook over changes that the social networking site made to its privacy settings last November and Dec...
Article | 16/02/2010 After outcry, Google revamps Buzz networking application
Google apologized on Saturday, saying it has made several changes to its new social-networking application Buzz to allay privacy concerns.
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 | 25/01/2010 TOR issues updated software after server breach
The TOR Project is advising users to upgrade to a new version of the software following a hack that compromised three of its servers.
Article | 20/01/2010 Google to call for creation of EU privacy, security panel
Google is pushing for the creation of an E.U. group to look at security and privacy policy, the company's top privacy lawyer, Peter Fleischer, said Tu...
Article | 20/01/2010 Microsoft cuts time Bing stores some user data to six months
Microsoft announced plans to cut the length of time it stores IP addresses of Web searchers using its Bing search engine from 18 months to six in a bi...
Article | 15/01/2010 China emphasizes laws as Google defies censorship
China said Thursday that foreign Internet companies are welcome to operate in the country in accordance with local laws, after Google defied authoriti...
Article | 14/01/2010 Groups seek to challenge US gov't on seized laptops
The policy of random laptop searches and seizures by U.S. government agents at border crossings is under attack again, with a pair of civil rights gro...
Article | 12/01/2010 Zuckerberg Comments Underscore Internet/Privacy Conflict
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg added fuel to the ongoing privacy debate with recent statements that users no longer care about privacy. While the statem...
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 | 7/01/2010 US FTC to examine cloud privacy concerns
In a development likely to be closely watched by Google Inc., Amazon.com, Microsoft Corp. and other vendors, the US Federal Trade Commission is examin...
Article | 18/12/2009 Got Facebook privacy concerns? You ain't seen nothing yet
Carnegie Mellon University researcher, Tom Mitchell, says that privacy risks "on a scale that humans have never before faced" hinder real-time data an...