http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. I love the location-based features on my iPhone. But after talking with privacy advocates last week, I'm concerned about who's keeping track of my location -- and what they're doing with that data. http://www.physorg.com/news173557072.html Technology Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:10:01 EST news173557072 An American engineer sought to clear Google of defamation charges at a trial over the broadcast in Italy of video showing the bullying of a teenager with Down's Syndrome, a lawyer for the Internet search provider said Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news173459576.html Technology Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:40:01 EST news173459576 (PhysOrg.com) -- University of Texas at Austin scientists have shown that they can break "Vanish," a program that promised to self-destruct computer data, such as emails and photographs, and thereby protect a person's privacy. http://www.physorg.com/news173450942.html Technology Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:49:34 EST news173450942 (AP) -- There is no kill switch for the Internet, no secret on-off button in an Oval Office drawer. http://www.physorg.com/news173281202.html Technology Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:41:46 EST news173281202 (AP) -- A Vermont man pleaded guilty Friday to charges he had child pornography on his laptop computer when he entered the United States from Quebec nearly three years ago. http://www.physorg.com/news173123302.html Technology Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:48:50 EST news173123302 Facebook has just announced another feature that should make you scramble to update your privacy settings. http://www.physorg.com/news173121479.html Technology Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:18:26 EST news173121479 (PhysOrg.com) -- An old man walks down the stairs in his home. Suddenly, he trips and falls. No one is home to help him. But soon he hears the reassuring clanging of approaching sirens. The surveillance system installed in his home worked: It alerted emergency services, and now, help is on the way. http://www.physorg.com/news173109730.html Technology Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:40:03 EST news173109730 (AP) -- Facebook is shutting down its much-maligned Beacon marketing program, launched nearly two years ago amid fanfare only to generate a storm of privacy complaints over tracking of user activities at partner Web sites. http://www.physorg.com/news172761670.html Technology Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:21:35 EST news172761670 (AP) -- France's lower house of parliament has approved a pioneering bill allowing authorities to cut off Internet access to people who download illegally. http://www.physorg.com/news172229697.html Technology Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:00:03 EST news172229697 (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 insight into what Internet ads we might be interested in seeing. http://www.physorg.com/news171538191.html Technology Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:30:37 EST news171538191 (AP) -- Parents who install a leading brand of software to monitor their kids' online activities may be unwittingly allowing the developer to gather marketing data from children as young as 7 - and to sell that information. http://www.physorg.com/news171296608.html Technology Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:50:04 EST news171296608 (AP) -- Google has agreed to draw up a separate privacy policy for its digital library in response to a request from the Federal Trade Commission. http://www.physorg.com/news171220794.html Technology Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:21:56 EST news171220794 (AP) -- Google Inc. said Wednesday its Street View service will blur some pictures from Switzerland even more after a Swiss official said the images were violating the country's strict privacy laws. http://www.physorg.com/news171121559.html Technology Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:00:03 EST news171121559 Privacy advocates have long warned that users of Facebook and other social networks who seek amusement from quizzes like "What Simpsons Character Are You?" might be mortified by the way creators of such applications can access and potentially "scrape" personal information -- not just about the quiz-takers, but their friends as well. http://www.physorg.com/news170614271.html Technology Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:00:01 EST news170614271 (AP) -- Facebook is agreeing to give users more control over their information in response to concerns raised by Canadian privacy officials. http://www.physorg.com/news170587624.html Technology Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:27:43 EST news170587624 (AP) -- A Swiss government official is demanding that Google Inc. immediately take off the Internet any "Street View" images of Switzerland, and the company said Monday it would work to resolve problems with the privacy rights regulator. http://www.physorg.com/news170330788.html Technology Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:07:00 EST news170330788 Five Facebook users are suing the social network for doing what made it an online superstar -- letting members share aspects of their lives on the Web. http://www.physorg.com/news169828025.html Technology Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:00:01 EST news169828025 (AP) -- In hindsight, it seems so obvious. We look back at the creepy online ramblings of a tortured soul like George Sodini and realize we should have known all along of the horrors to come. http://www.physorg.com/news168765542.html Technology Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:19:20 EST news168765542 Sweden's tough new anti-piracy law has led to a sharp drop in illegal downloading but critics say the effects will be short-lived and argue it is an excessive breach of personal privacy. http://www.physorg.com/news168596077.html Technology Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:50:02 EST news168596077 Google's ambitious book scanning project, already facing anti-trust scrutiny and awaiting court approval, is also raising concerns among privacy advocates and civil liberties groups. http://www.physorg.com/news167671171.html Technology Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:10:01 EST news167671171 (PhysOrg.com) -- Furious competition between social networking sites is compromising the protection of users' data, a Cambridge University study has concluded. http://www.physorg.com/news167400726.html Technology Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:30:04 EST news167400726 (AP) -- Lawmakers in France's lower house of parliament are to start debate Tuesday on a new version of a bill aimed at cracking down on online piracy by cutting the Internet connections of those who illegally download movies and music. http://www.physorg.com/news167380863.html Technology Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:00:01 EST news167380863 States that have passed privacy laws restricting the ability of hospitals to disclose patient information have seen the sharing of electronic medical records suffer by more than 24%, according to the Management Insights feature in the current issue of Management Science, the flagship journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). http://www.physorg.com/news166716239.html Medicine & Health Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:04:40 EST news166716239 Climbing into his Volvo, outfitted with a Matrics antenna and a Motorola reader he'd bought on eBay for $190, Chris Paget cruised the streets of San Francisco with this objective: To read the identity cards of strangers, wirelessly, without ever leaving his car. http://www.physorg.com/news166552331.html Technology Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:32:49 EST news166552331 (AP) -- New York's attorney general charged Thursday that Tagged.com stole the identities of more than 60 million Internet users worldwide - by sending e-mails that raided their private accounts. http://www.physorg.com/news166377499.html Technology Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:10:07 EST news166377499 (AP) -- The Obama administration is moving cautiously on a new pilot program that would both detect and stop cyber attacks against government computers, while trying to ensure citizen privacy protections. http://www.physorg.com/news165825836.html Technology Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:44:23 EST news165825836 (AP) -- Facebook is overhauling its privacy controls over the next several weeks in an attempt to simplify its users' ability to control who sees the information they share on the site. http://www.physorg.com/news165686863.html Technology Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:20:01 EST news165686863 (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. http://www.physorg.com/news164964300.html Technology Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:29:27 EST news164964300 (AP) -- A joint venture formed by the nation's six largest cable operators is suspending trials of its first advertising product before it even gets off the ground. http://www.physorg.com/news164642135.html Technology Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:55:54 EST news164642135 (AP) -- A new Web site unveiled Thursday will track policies imposed by popular Internet sites such as Facebook and Google, hoping to help users spot potentially harmful changes. http://www.physorg.com/news163359876.html Technology Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:45:09 EST news163359876