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Microsoft Says Google Secretly Planted Cookies in Internet Explorer Too...
Fresh off the report that Google was bypassing the privacy settings of Safari users by installing cookies that could track browsing habits, Microsoft has discovered that Google has been doing the same...
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Google Sued Over Safari Privacy Debacle [Google]
Last week, it came out that Google has been bypassing privacy settings in Safari, and installing cookies to track the browsing habits of millions of users who didn’t know about the tracking. Now...
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iOS Bug Allows Access to Contacts Without a Passcode [Video]
If you think that your iPhone is impenetrable thanks to its security passcode, think again. A new bug has been exposed in iOS 5.0.1 that allows unauthorized access to contacts and the calling features...
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Apps That Abuse Privacy Will Now Be Punished By the Law [Privacy]
Kamala Harris, California’s Attorney General, says the state has reached an agreement with Apple, Google, Microsoft, RIM and others to prosecute developers who do not abide by new privacy policies....
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Can Obama’s New Consumer Privacy Bill Keep Your Data Safe? [Privacy]
Today, the Obama administration is to unveil a new Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights, which it hopes to roll out in order to protect people’s privacy online. The question is, can it work? More »
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Internet Giants to Adopt a Do-Not-Track Button [Privacy]
While many browsers already feature a “do not track” button, in truth they’re largely ineffectual, because advertisers and tracking companies hadn’t agreed to honor the system. Now, prompted by the...
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Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights: The Complete Text [Privacy Bill Of Rights]
There’s maybe no issue that affects you more directly in today’s tech world than that of internet privacy. Our whole lives are online, and we too often don’t even know who has access to it. Will...
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The Social Network Only the Cops Have Access To [Crime]
Former police officer Anne Marie Rasmusson is about to file a lawsuit alleging that her drivers license record was illegally accessed hundreds of times by other law enforcers in Minnesota. Who else...
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Read Reddit’s Crowdsourced "Free Internet Act," Which Would Make It Hugely...
After playing a major role in defeating SOPA legislation, Reddit users decided to craft their own “Free Internet Act,” which, they hoped, could be used as a far more liberal replacement bill. More »
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Has Facebook Been Reading Your Text Messages? (UPDATED) [Facebook]
Let’s take a healthy sodium-dose here, but London’s Sunday Times is alleging that Facebook has admitted to reading users’ text messages. People at Facebook supposedly read the private SMS messages of...
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