News tagged with internet privacy

Congress weighs landmark change in Web ad privacy

(AP) -- The Web sites we visit, the online links we click, the search queries we conduct, the products we put in virtual shopping carts, the personal details we reveal on social networking pages - all of this can give companies ...

Technology / Internet

created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 6

Report: Widespread data sharing, 'Web bugs'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley's School of Information released a report late Monday (June 1) showing that the most popular Web sites in the United States all share ...

Technology / Internet

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

House OKs cybersecurity bill despite veto threat

The House ignored Obama administration objections Thursday and approved legislation aimed at helping stop electronic attacks on critical U.S. infrastructure and private companies.

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created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4

Google lets users monitor their online activity

Google on Wednesday began letting people get monthly reports summarizing what they have been up to at the Internet titan's free online services.

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created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Facebook buys patents from IBM to defend itself

(AP) -- Facebook has acquired patents from IBM as it girds itself for litigation, including a lawsuit by Yahoo.

Technology / Business

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Review: 5 ways to control your privacy on Google

Like it or not, your relationship with Google is becoming a lot more intimate. The company recently expanded its ability to combine data from its various services to create a highly detailed profile on you.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (9) | comments 4

White House unveils 'one click' online privacy plan

The Obama administration is calling for stronger privacy protections for consumers as mobile gadgets, Internet services and other tools are able to do a better job of tracking what you do and where you go.

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created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 3

Browser bypasses put Google in privacy cross hairs

Privacy advocates, lawyers and powerful rival Microsoft were piling on Google on Tuesday for sidestepping Web browsing software to tailor ads for people signed into its online services. ...

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created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Lawsuit seeks to block Google's privacy changes (Update)

(AP) -- A consumer watchdog group is suing the Federal Trade Commission in an attempt to prevent Google from making sweeping changes to its privacy policies next month.

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created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Google+ rolling out facial recognition feature

Google is rolling out a feature that lets members of its online social network automatically find themselves in photos posted by friends.

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created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 4

Facebook makes privacy pledge in FTC settlement

Government regulators are sharing some alarming information about Facebook: They believe the online social network has often misled its more than 800 million users about the sanctity of their personal information.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

EU data protection reform to replace national laws

The European Union wants to replace a mishmash of national laws on data protection with one bloc-wide reform, updating laws put in place long before Facebook and other social networking sites even existed.

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created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Austrian student takes on Facebook over privacy

Max Schrems wasn't sure what he would get when he asked Facebook to send him a record of his personal data from three years of using the site.

Technology / Internet

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 2

Internet firm fought court order in WikiLeaks case

A small California-based Internet provider is the second company to confirm it fought back against a court demanding a customer's account information as part of a criminal investigation into the release of documents by WikiLeaks.

Technology / Internet

created Oct 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4

Internet privacy controls challenge tech industry

The federal government has put Google, Microsoft, Apple and other technology companies on notice: Give consumers a way prevent advertisers from tracking their movements across the Web - or face regulation.

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created Jul 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Internet privacy

Internet privacy consists of privacy over the media of the Internet: the ability to control what information one reveals about oneself over the Internet, and to control who can access that information. Many people use the term to mean universal Internet privacy: every user of the Internet possessing Internet privacy.

Internet privacy forms a subset of computer privacy. A number of experts within the field of Internet security and privacy believe that security doesn't exist; "Privacy is dead - get over it" according to Steve Rambam, private investigator specialising in Internet privacy cases. Privacy advocates believe that it should exist.

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