News tagged with privacy rules

GPS court ruling leaves US phone tracking unclear

A US Supreme Court decision requiring a warrant to place a GPS device on the car of a criminal suspect leaves unresolved the bigger issue of police tracking using mobile phones, legal experts say.

Technology / Telecom

created Feb 11, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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.

Technology / Internet

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

Tighter online privacy rules for preteens proposed

Many preteens have dived into the expanding worlds of social networks and smartphone apps, but federal rules designed to protect their privacy are still in the era of Web portals and flip phones.

Technology / Internet

created Sep 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Google Drive: Watch out, cloud computing in U.S. like 'Wild West'

With the advent of Google Drive, we talk about cloud computing as if the bits and bytes of our lives are stored somewhere up in the air, but, really, the "clouds" are very terrestrial. What's more up in the air are the laws ...

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created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

FTC, RockYou settle over exposed email passwords

(AP) -- The Federal Trade Commission says that an online game site called RockYou has reached a settlement with the government over a hacking attack that exposed email addresses and passwords from 32 million users.

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

Swiss court orders Google to blur images on Street View

A Swiss court said Monday that it has ordered Internet giant Google to make all images of individuals and vehicle plates unrecognisable on its Street View picture map, so as to comply with privacy rules.

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created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 5

Google fires engineer for violating privacy policies

Google said that it had dismissed an engineer for violating the Internet giant's privacy policies.

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created Sep 15, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Google trial in Italy: freedom v. responsibility

(AP) -- Testimony begins Tuesday in the Italian trial of four Google executives accused of defamation and violating privacy for allowing a video to be posted online showing an autistic youth being abused.

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created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

EU to sue Britain over Internet privacy

(AP) -- The European Union started legal action against Britain on Tuesday for not applying EU data privacy rules that would restrict an Internet advertising tracker called Phorm from watching how users surf the Web.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0