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Lifebrowser: Data mining gets (really) personal at Microsoft

(PhysOrg.com) -- Microsoft Research is doing research on software that could bring you your own personal data mining center with a touch of Proust for returns. In a recent video, Microsoft scientist Eric Horvitz ...

Technology / Software

created Mar 17, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

UK surveillance could yield window into lives

(AP) -- British officials have given their word: "We won't read your emails."

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created May 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Facebook IPO has privacy implications, advocates say

Facebook's IPO could be one of the most successful in history, but that very success could force the company to make a choice between protecting users' privacy and exploiting their personal data.

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created May 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Spain smashes global 'zombie' computer network: police

Spanish police said on Wednesday they had arrested three men suspected of building the world's biggest network of virus-infected computers which hijacked more than 13 million PCs.

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created Mar 03, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 7

EU court: Web sites need not check for IP breaches

A European Union court ruled Thursday that social networking sites cannot be compelled to install general filters to prevent the illegal trading of music and other copyrighted material.

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created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

New lawsuit takes aim at Facebook privacy

A new lawsuit consolidating several complaints about Facebook's privacy policies was filed Friday in California, seeking damages for US users of the social network for improper tracking.

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created May 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Google deletes two Android applications remotely

(PhysOrg.com) -- Google removed two free applications from Android phones this week, using a feature that allows them to delete the applications from phones remotely.

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created Jun 25, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

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.

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

Sidekick's lost data gone for good

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sidekick users have been without some of their services for days, and have just been told by the company, T-Mobile, that for some users their data may be lost forever due to a server error ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 6 weblog

The Free Software Foundation takes aim at Gmail

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Free Software Foundation is at it again, promoting their laudable, if potentially unrealistic, goal to have all software released under a free software license. Their latest target for information freebies ...

Technology / Software

created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (7) | comments 35 | with audio podcast weblog

Unauthorized access hits Sony PlayStation accounts

Sony said Wednesday intruders staged a massive attempt to access user accounts on its PlayStation Network and other online entertainment services in the second major attack on its flagship gaming site this year.

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created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

FTC seeks law to shed more light on data brokers

(AP) -- The Federal Trade Commission is calling for a new law that would allow people to review the vast amounts of information being collected about them as the Internet, smartphones and other technology make it easier ...

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created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

EU probes new Google privacy policy

The European Union's data protection authorities have asked Google to delay the rollout of its new privacy policy until they have verified that it doesn't break the bloc's data protection laws.

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created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Lockheed Martin says it repelled cyber attack

Lockheed Martin, the world's top defense contractor, was on Sunday investigating the source of a major cyber-attack one week ago against its information network, the company said. ...

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created May 29, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0

'Anonymous' hackers access Austrian bank data

The Austrian branch of the hacker group Anonymous accessed the bank data of 96,000 people in an attack on the website of the country's GIS television licence agency, officials said on Monday.

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created Jul 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 7