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2006 Privacy Issue
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The Privacy Advocates
Today, personal information is captured, processed, and disseminated in a bewildering variety of ways, and through increasingly sophisticated, miniaturized, and distributed technologies: identity cards, biometrics, video surveillance, the use of cookies and spyware by Web… -
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Lost in the cloud
EARLIER this month Google announced a new operating system called Chrome. It’s meant to transform personal computers and handheld devices into single-purpose windows to the Web. This is part of a larger trend: Chrome moves… -
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Advocates highlight problems in draft online privacy bill
Consumer Action and other consumer and privacy advocates spoke out about serious problems contained in a draft online privacy bill unveiled by Representative Rick Boucher, Democratic chairman of the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and… -
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Rivals seize on privacy troubles of Facebook
t sounds like a kamikaze mission: an upstart with a meager number of users and no capital squaring off against Facebook, a social networking juggernaut with more than 400 million members and a $15 billion… -
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Facebook’s very public privacy debate
Public responses to the recent debate about Facebook privacy. -
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Consumer Action responds to Facebook’s new privacy settings
Consumer Action responded to Facebook’s announced changes to its privacy settings, which the company says will make it simpler and easier for users to control exactly who sees their information and how they share posted… -
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Web start-ups making deals for customer data
As concern increases in Washington about the amount of private data online, and as big sites like Facebook draw criticism that they collect consumers’ information in a stealthy manner, many Web start-ups are pursuing a… -
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‘Scareware’ ads proliferate across Internet
Court records show to the penny how much software company Innovative Marketing banked by getting computer users to pay for fake anti-virus programs: $163,167,539.95. Before its demise, the Ukraine-based company employed hundreds of workers collaborating… -
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Tabnabbing: Like phishing within browser
Mozilla’s Aza Raskin is warning about a new type of phishing attack called tabnabbing. Unlike traditional phishing attacks which trick people into clicking on links that take them to bogus sites that look legitimate, tabnabbing… -
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Tech goes mobile and so do the hackers
Mobile devices are slick, powerful and convenient, but the news this week that AT&T suffered a data breach on thousands of iPads highlighted another quality: They’re vulnerable. As more personal information migrates to mobile devices,… -
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Privacy groups send an open letter to Facebook
Consumer and privacy advocates sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlining remaining privacy concerns on the site. Dear Mark, We are glad to see that… -
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Microsoft opens center for reports of stolen identities, data
In a major step to slow cybercrime, Microsoft on Thursday launched a coalition that will serve as a clearinghouse for reports about caches of stolen data stashed all across the Internet. Malicious programs crafted to… -
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Government creates more smartphone apps
Smartphone addicts, rejoice: Are you counting calories? Concerned about unsafe toys? Worried about tan lines or airport security lines? There’s a (government) app for that. The Obama administration unveiled four new apps for mobile phones… -
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Despite privacy inquiries, Germans flock to Facebook, Google
Chenchao Liu has 446 friends on Facebook, loves his iPhone 3GS and is obsessed with Google searches and maps. In that respect, Mr. Liu, 21, is like many American college students. But Mr. Liu lives… -
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As Facebook users die, ghosts reach out
Courtney Purvin got a shock when she visited Facebook last month. The site was suggesting that she get back in touch with an old family friend who played piano at her wedding four years ago.… -
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2010 Summer Issue: Online Privacy
Table of Contents Online, data control is crucial Bullseye: How companies target you on the Internet -
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Senate preps online privacy legislation
A Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing on online privacy Tuesday will focus on technologies used to collect and use consumer information and could help lay the groundwork for legislation governing those practices. The… -
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Sen. Kerry to introduce Internet privacy bill
Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.), chairman of the Communications Subcommittee, said Tuesday that he will introduce an online privacy bill that will create standards for how consumer data is collected and used for marketing. It will… -
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For a ‘free gift card,’ simply give away your personal information
You’ve probably heard it a thousand times: There’s no free lunch. But sometimes it helps to get a little reminder. And so we turn our attention to e-mails making the rounds from something called BestShoppingRewards.… -
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Why privacy on the Web isn’t dispensable
Predicting the future of the Internet is a high-risk undertaking. But there are trends afoot, which, if unchecked, may threaten our basic values or put excess power or control in the hands of particular interests.… -
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Search takes a social turn
Now, even on the Internet, it is not what you know but who you know. After a decade when search engines ruled supreme — tapping billions of Web pages to answer every conceivable query —… -
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How to protect your child’s privacy online
Websites popular among children and teens place more tracking technologies on users’ computers than do the top websites aimed at adults, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found. But parents can take steps to limit… -
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Free anti-virus protection spurs more robust options
With cyberattacks saturating the Internet, a dramatic shift is underway in the $7 billion-a-year anti-virus industry — and it’s all good news for consumers. There’s no excuse anymore not to have anti-virus protection on your… -
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US working to ease wiretap rules for Internet
Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is “going dark” as people increasingly communicate online…
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