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Google has been as open as any company its size, but, with the number of services and products it has, it can be hard to know what exactly is shared and with whom and what Google really knows about you. Now, though, Google has introduced the “Dashboard,” a tool to centrally manage the security and privacy... |
5 November 2009
06:09 GMT |
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A team of scientists has found another use for wireless networks, other than transmitting data from one terminal to another. According to a research paper it just made public, wireless technology can be used to reveal what's going on behind closed doors, or through a wall. The team, based at the University of Ut... |
1 October 2009
08:53 GMT |
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After a year-long investigation from the Canadian authorities, Facebook has announced that it will implement significant changes to the privacy policies, giving users more control over their data and, more importantly, radically changing the way third-party apps can access user data. The investigation focused on a nu... |
28 August 2009
03:54 GMT |
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Not that it surprises anyone at this point, but Facebook is facing another lawsuit, this time in California. Five individual users have filed a suit in the Orange County Superior Court claiming the site violates several state laws related to privacy and protection of personal data especially concerned with the site s... |
18 August 2009
09:14 GMT |
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In light of the recent events that have caused a lot of public outcry and negative press against Facebook, in which many users falsely claimed that the company had changed its policies to allow third parties to add user photos in advertisements without their express consent, the social network has decided to actually... |
29 July 2009
10:48 GMT |
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Rumors have been spreading this week across Facebook, but also in news outlets, that the social network had changed its policies to allow third-party advertisers to use Facebook users' photos in campaigns on the site without their express permission. The rumors started when Cheryl Smith, a business consultant, p... |
25 July 2009
05:10 GMT |
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Facebook has announced further changes to the user privacy options, which are now geared towards more openness by making it easier for users to decide what they want to share with the world. The new trend for the social network comes in stark contrast with the past several years when Facebook was known for its very r... |
2 July 2009
06:00 GMT |
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A new report from Internet security firm Webroot sheds some light on the behavior and awareness of social network users regarding security and privacy. The survey found that the majority of users of social networks like Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn or Twitter, 78 percent, were concerned about the privacy of their prof... |
1 July 2009
10:55 GMT |
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As much as he wants to stay out of the spotlight, Christian Bale seems to be constantly showered with unwanted attention. Whether it’s for getting a bit too verbally harsh with his own family or with crew members, the media appears to be unable to stop paying attention to the little things that make him scandal... |
22 May 2009
03:29 GMT |
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Ever since reports about her condition deteriorating started to surface a couple of weeks back, former “Charlie’s Angels” star Farrah Fawcett has kept silent on the subject. Now, for the first time in many months, the actress is speaking out about her battle with anal cancer, as well as about what i... |
12 May 2009
05:59 GMT |
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A lot of people in the United Kingdom have filed a petition with the Information Commissioner (ICO) against Google's successful new service, Street View. They say that it infringes on their privacy, and that some images reveal information that is too sensitive to be in the public domain. Despite the fact that th... |
24 March 2009
11:06 GMT |
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The Google search giant has been recently asked to remove some photos from its new UK Street View Service, on account of the fact that some of the citizens depicted in those images were not about to let themselves become the laughing stock of the Internet, or at least this is how they have justified their request to ... |
20 March 2009
10:10 GMT |
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The new Microsoft Privacy Education Toolkit is available for download, designed to streamline the education process of users when it comes down to keeping their sensitive information safe while online. The Consumer Privacy Education Toolkit was offered at the International Association of Privacy Professionals summit ... |
18 March 2009
07:12 GMT |
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The current model by which Google is serving online advertisements is evolving. The Mountain View-based search giant indicated that it was responding to requests from both advertisers and partners with the new move of introducing what it referred to as “interest-based advertising.” What this means is that... |
11 March 2009
10:31 GMT |
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Facebook seems to be trying out a new way of elaborating the internal policies for one of the most popular web sites on the Internet – user input. In other words, the company says, the users will play a “meaningful role” in deciding how things will run in the community, which currently houses about ... |
27 February 2009
06:06 GMT |
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The online safety of children worldwide is in question due to an ever-increasing number of attacks from various suspicious individuals, as well as from peers who have a larger inclination towards technology. On that background, 17 companies owning social media websites got together in Europe and signed on Tuesday an ... |
10 February 2009
11:03 GMT |
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Closed-circuit television (CCTV) is blamed by many as an affront to the privacy of decent and honest citizens, despite the fact that authorities praise it as an effective means of catching crooks and criminals. To calm some of the protests on CCTV, scientists at Hewlett-Packard have devised a method of “conceal... |
2 February 2009
05:08 GMT |
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On January 28, Microsoft joined governmental organizations and companies in the private sector to raise awareness of privacy and data protection issues. In 2007, the Council of Europe and the European Commission selected January 28 as the Data Privacy Day, and the Redmond company was quick to jump aboard, an indicati... |
28 January 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Last week, Microsoft announced support for a six-month deadline for search data anonymisation in accordance with the limitations that the European Union aimed to impose on search providers. At that time, John Vassallo, vice president, EU Affairs and associate general counsel, along with Peter Cullen, chief privacy st... |
18 December 2008
08:07 GMT |
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Data privacy concerns home and business users alike. However, protecting the files and folders using a password or hiding them in Windows Explorer is far from being a secure measure nowadays. One logical step that needs to be taken in order to guarantee information privacy is to make the files and folders completely ... |
15 December 2008
12:21 GMT |
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A small presence on the global search engine market, behind Google and Yahoo, but also inferior in terms of share to localized services such as the Chinese Baidu, Microsoft's Live Search is already prepared to meet strong standards for data anonymisation. In this context, the Redmond company indicated at the sta... |
9 December 2008
09:47 GMT |
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Dell continues to demonstrate its commitment to becoming a nature-friendly company, and has announced today that it is preparing to transition all of its new notebook displays to light-emitting diode (LED) in the next year. The plan is just part of the Round Rock, Texas-based company's quest to become the &ldquo... |
24 September 2008
08:15 GMT |
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Maricopa County Recorder's Office has decided to take death certificates offline from their website due to concerns regarding the increasing number of identity theft incidents. The documents, which are still public records, can now be accessed only upon submission of an official request form.The Maricopa County ... |
11 September 2008
09:09 GMT |
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Google has announced on its official blog that, following the concerns expressed by privacy regulators in Europe and US, it will anonymize IPs in the server search logs after 9 months instead of 18. After being the first major search engine to clearly specify a retention time for IPs of 18 months, Google claims that ... |
9 September 2008
11:35 GMT |
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Google is launching its own free, open source web browser. Google Chrome, as the browser is called, will only be available for Windows operating systems for a while, but the team is working on developing the product for Mac and Linux users as well. Since Google is undoubtedly ruling the search market, many wonde... |
2 September 2008
03:33 GMT |
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Google's two popular projects, Google Earth and Google Maps, will benefit from images of a much better quality than that of those currently employed. The company has signed a contract with GeoEye, a satellite imagery provider, which will offer, according to Reuters as cited by the Washington Post, the most ... |
29 August 2008
10:57 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is just around the corner. There are, at this point in time, just five days until the end of August 2008, and the delivery deadline for the second Beta release of IE8 is approaching at fact pace. But even with Microsoft gearing up to take IE8 Beta 2 out of the Redmond ovens, with baking tim... |
26 August 2008
07:27 GMT |
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Google's Street View is being accused, once again, of having infringed privacy rights. Betty Webba, a resident of Sonoma, Humboldt County, US, told PressDemocrat that one of the cars carrying a camera meant to shoot the imagery necessary for the development of the Street View network trespassed on her property. ... |
25 August 2008
08:23 GMT |
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The British Government wants all necessary information in order to track the activity of all Internet users in the country. This means that authorities would know, at any time, the content, place and time of any given chat conversation. Also, state officials would have access to details about the equipment used to na... |
14 August 2008
07:20 GMT |
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A new anti-piracy tool called "Logistep Data Management Tool" was spotted parked a few days ago on the eparken domain name. Since it was noticed, the tool has been surprisingly taken offline. All the info points to the famous Logistep company that was tracking information on p2p users across Europe.Logistep is a comp... |
12 August 2008
11:19 GMT |
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People don't know much about Internet privacy, although they do claim to be very careful about what they divulge when registering to certain websites or answering questionnaires. A study conducted by AOL, which included research, questioning various managers and asking for the opinion of 1,000 respondents, led t... |
12 August 2008
06:05 GMT |
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The Australian Law Reform Commission has decided to forward a bill aimed at making people feel secure as far as their privacy is concerned, without the need of cutting off access to nearly all Internet resources. "People appreciate that other interests often come into the balance - such as freedom of speech, child pr... |
11 August 2008
10:13 GMT |
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An article written by Rajas Moonka, Senior Business Product Manager, and posted today on the Google blog, announces that in the upcoming months the Google content network (AdSense) will benefit from several enhancements based on DoubleClick technology.Several months ago, Google purchased the DoubleClick ad management... |
8 August 2008
04:40 GMT |
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Although Google has always said that people's privacy is one of the main reasons for concern for the company, Google Street View somehow comes to contradict that statement. Aaron and Christine Boring, a couple from Pennsylvania, filed a lawsuit against the search giant because their house appeared, without their... |
1 August 2008
11:50 GMT |
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It seems like the Del.icio.us team doesn't want to lose its subscribers, as it might happen after the launch of the new version of the website. While this assertion may seem a bit contradictory, as people are usually attracted towards anything that includes a new launch or improvement, do read on for more detail... |
28 July 2008
07:23 GMT |
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Today, a team of engineers who have previously worked at Google, IBM, eBay, Altavista and the Stanford University, announced the launching of the "biggest search engine on the web." The fact that its database adds up to more than 120 billion pages makes it indeed large - three times bigger than any other known search... |
28 July 2008
03:23 GMT |
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Arxan, a company that provides software solutions that ensure applications are not tampered with, has recently joined the Federation Against Software Theft and by doing so it became the proud member of one of the first organizations in the world to fight against online piracy. The main goal of the Federation is to pr... |
11 July 2008
09:33 GMT |
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Google's pressure point regarding users' privacy is infamous. Even when it is not collecting data on purpose, something has to come up with and trouble the waters, such as is the case with the trial with Viacom. Regardless of that, the officials stand up to defend their reliable privacy policy whenever the ... |
11 July 2008
07:36 GMT |
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A few days ago, we were reporting that the EU Parliament would submit Telecom Package to voting. The law in itself was not such a big threat to online privacy, but the amendments were and consequently, numerous privacy watchdogs promptly reacted. Well, it seems that the members of the Parliament voted in favor of th... |
9 July 2008
11:20 GMT |
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An online petition was launched a few days ago by some YouTube users who call themselves generically "users of the web." What initiated it is their concern regarding the judges' decision to force YouTube to hand over all of its users' private data to Viacom, a major American company that has accused it of c... |
8 July 2008
06:05 GMT |
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According to a study conducted by Trend Micro, a company that specializes in providing flexible and customizable Internet security solutions, data leaks are rapidly becoming a security threat similar to that of viruses and malware. The study was conducted on 1,600 corporate PC users and it shows that the most affect... |
8 July 2008
02:11 GMT |
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Today the European Parliament will vote on the Telecom Packet, as the law is commonly referred to. Although the law itself is meant to regulate the European telecommunications market, the amendments to the law target online piracy; if on three separate occasions you are caught downloading or uploading copyrighted mat... |
7 July 2008
09:19 GMT |
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Earlier this month we were reporting that the French version of Google's Street View had to deal with some privacy related issued before it could be released. While people were more than happy about being able to scour all parts of the world at street level, they were not happy about having their picture seen b... |
7 July 2008
08:31 GMT |
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Google Maps Street View is the subject of quite a few vivid debates in the circles of human rights associations. The company has already launched the application that offers street-level images in France, for those who want another perspective on the Tour de France. Google is now planning to extend the experiment to... |
7 July 2008
08:07 GMT |
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Just like Google, LinkedIn is also facing criticism in regards to failure of keeping private data safe. But while Google lost sensitive information due to burglary or court order, LinkedIn is accused of making a profit from user data. The company was founded five years ago and provided business networking services. ... |
5 July 2008
07:11 GMT |
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Earlier this week, the French StreetView edition was launched; it is part of Google maps and it allows an Internet user to browse through the maps at street level. The French edition though has a long way to go as only the route for the Tour de France has been covered by Google. Out of privacy reasons, the faces of ... |
5 July 2008
05:58 GMT |
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You may not have noticed, but starting with the 3rd of July, Google has modified its main page. Just bellow the "About Google" tab, there used to be "© 2008 Google". Now that link has been swapped for this one "© 2008 - Privacy". Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the two founders of Google, opted for the term "privacy" no... |
5 July 2008
04:03 GMT |
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the European Commission are close to coming to a conclusion in an agreement that would allow the American organization to access private EU citizen data such as credit card history and frequently visited web pages. Privacy organizations are strongly contesting this agreement a... |
1 July 2008
07:11 GMT |
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Google and Microsoft are unlikely partners, as the two companies have conflicting interests especially in terms of the search engine and online advertising markets. Still, the Mountain View search giant and the Redmond software company do manage to find common ground. In this regard, user privacy is one area where th... |
27 May 2008
07:05 GMT |
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Similar discussions surfaced in the past so it shouldn't be too surprising that Google disclosed private details concerning a user as part of a police investigation. According to Network World, the Pune police arrested Rahul Krishnakumar Vaid a few days ago under charges of publishing obscene content on the Inte... |
20 May 2008
04:47 GMT |
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