News tagged with internet privacy

Digital photos could put kids at risk

A study published in the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics this month suggests that parents and carers could be putting children at risk if they upload digital photos that are automatically "geota ...

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created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

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

Poland freezes anti-piracy pact ratification

Poland's prime minister said Friday that Warsaw would put on ice plans to ratify a controversial international online anti-piracy accord after massive off-and-online protests in his country.

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

Facebook can get you fired: Research reveals the perils of social networking for school employees

School administrators are facing a growing dilemma resulting from social networking that goes beyond preventing cyber-bullying among students. They're also faced with balancing the rights of privacy and free speech of educators ...

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created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US lawmakers seek Google answers on privacy

Two US lawmakers have asked Google chief Larry Page to brief congress on changes to the Internet search giant's privacy policies, citing concerns about collection and sharing of personal data.

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created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Consumers in the middle of battle over Internet privacy

Google and Facebook might have finally gotten the average consumer riled up about privacy.

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created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Google revising privacy policies, data use

Google said it is revising its privacy policies and changing how it uses data from users of its services to provide more personalized search results and advertisements.

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created Jan 25, 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.

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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

French official: Europe must defend privacy rights

(AP) -- Europe and the United States don't agree on how to strike the right balance between protecting privacy rights and battling the terror threat, the head of France's data protection watchdog said Friday.

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created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Britain warns over Internet freedom at cyberspace talks

British Foreign Secretary William Hague issued a warning on Tuesday to countries that try to restrict Internet freedom as he opened a global conference designed to set up cyberspace "rules of the road".

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created Nov 01, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Internet privacy tools are confusing, ineffective for most people: report

Internet users who want to protect their privacy by stopping advertisers and other companies from tracking their online behavior will have great difficulty doing so with commonly available "opt-out" tools, researchers at ...

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created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 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.

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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.

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

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.

For more information about Internet privacy, read the full article at Wikipedia.
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