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Report: Widespread data sharing, 'Web bugs'

Report: Widespread data sharing, 'Web bugs'

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

(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 ...





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Facebook outlines new privacy policy

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created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Facebook outlined changes to its privacy policy on Thursday and asked for feedback from the social network's more than 300 million users.


Google to draw up new privacy policy for books

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created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(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.


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Privacy concerns over Google book project

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created Jul 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

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.


NebuAd closing doors after Internet privacy woes

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created May 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- NebuAd Inc., a company that sought to target ads to consumers based on their online behavior, is going out of business after facing scrutiny over whether its technology infringed on the privacy of Internet surfers.


Laws regulating web privacy vary greatly around the world

Experts meet to hash out web privacy rules

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created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Hundreds of privacy experts from around the world met in Madrid on Wednesday for a three-day conference which aims to arrive at a global standard for the protection of personal data.


Internet users give up privacy in exchange for trust

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created Nov 22, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

With public concern over online fraud, new research, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, has revealed that internet users will reveal more personal information online if they believe they can trust the organisation ...


Microsoft is raising cloud computing concerns

Microsoft raises cloud computing concerns

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created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 1.4 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Packaged software powerhouse Microsoft on Thursday released a paper outlining privacy concerns businesses should consider prior to leaping into the computing "cloud."


US wants privacy in new cyber security system (AP)

US wants privacy in new cyber security system

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created Jul 03, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(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.


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Google pledges more blurring in Switzerland

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created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(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.


A new system preserves the right to privacy in Internet searches

A new system preserves the right to privacy in Internet searches

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created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A team of Catalan researchers has developed a protocol to distort the user profile generated by Internet search engines, in such a way that they cannot save the searches undertaken by Internet users and thus ...



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