The information that Google shared was not the result of a glitch with its software. ...
01:05 PM, Feb 15, 2013
Google and other powerful tech companies, will try to convince US Congress to update a 1986 privacy protection law. ...
12:40 PM, Jan 29, 2013
A dozen Apple users are taking Google to court over cookies surreptitiously installed on computers and smartphones. ...
07:38 AM, Jan 29, 2013
Dublin: Facebook has tightened up its privacy controls sufficiently to satisfy a review by the body that regulates the social networking company outside North America, removing the immediate threat of legal challenges. The world's biggest social network makes most of its money from advertising, but has to walk a fine line to avoid giving its over 950 million users the impression it is invading their privacy to boost revenue. It...
11:43 AM, Sep 22, 2012
San Francisco: Twitter will honour requests from users who do not want their online behaviour tracked, the company said on Thursday, in contrast with Web companies such Google Inc and Facebook Inc whose business models rely heavily on collecting user data. Twitter said it will officially support "Do Not Track," a standardised privacy initiative that has been heavily promoted by the US Federal Trade Commission, online privacy advocates and Mozilla,...
08:02 PM, May 18, 2012
New York: Facebook is warning employers not to demand the passwords of job applicants, saying that it's an invasion of privacy that opens companies to legal liabilities. The social networking company is also threatening legal action against those who violate its long-standing policy against sharing passwords. An Associated Press story this week documented cases of job applicants who are being asked, at the interview table, to reveal their Facebook passwords...
11:57 AM, Mar 24, 2012
Google will now be allowed to maintain your complete profile and your data will get tracked and stored by the company. ...
09:51 AM, Feb 24, 2012
Washington: The White House on Thursday proposed a "bill of rights" that would give consumers greater online privacy protection and could eventually give the government greater powers to police Internet firms such as Google Inc and Facebook. While the privacy bill of rights does not impose any immediate new obligations on online companies, President Barack Obama said it was part of a broader plan to give Americans more control over...
01:24 PM, Feb 23, 2012
Vienna: US social media group Facebook seems ready to publish categories of data it collects from users, an Austrian student group lobbying for stricter privacy rules said on Tuesday. Facebook had agreed in December to overhaul privacy protection for more than half a billion users outside North America after a three-month investigation found that its privacy policies were overly complex and lacked transparency. "This (data) access issue as well as...
05:57 PM, Feb 07, 2012
Washington: The US federal government's plan to expand computer security protections into critical parts of private industry is raising concerns that the move will threaten Americans' civil liberties. In a report for release Friday, The Constitution Project warns that as the Obama administration partners more with the energy, financial, communications and health care industries to monitor and protect networks, sensitive personal information of people who work for or communicate with...
02:32 PM, Jan 28, 2012
Washington: A leading lawmaker on privacy issues said on Thursday he would ask for a probe into whether recently announced changes in how Google handles consumer data violated an agreement it made with the US Federal Trade Commission. Representative Edward Markey was also one of eight US lawmakers who sent a letter to Google expressing concern that a planned consolidation of user information may make it more difficult for consumers...
01:59 PM, Jan 27, 2012
San Francisco: Technology bloggers are asking if our cellphones are spying on us after a security researcher said a piece of software hidden on millions of phones was recording virtually everything people do with them. Amid a broad outcry, US Senator Al Franken is calling for an investigation. A class-action lawsuit has been filed against the software's maker, Carrier IQ Inc. of Mountain View, Calif. The software, which Carrier IQ...
01:54 PM, Dec 03, 2011
London: Men are more likely to pass on their personal details and ignore privacy settings on social networking sites like Facebook when a female stranger requests friendship, a survey has found. The study, commissioned by anti-virus software company Bitdefender, said men are suckers for scantily clad female strangers. The survey revealed men were far more likely to accept friendship requests from strangers, announce their location, leave their account open for...
05:18 PM, Nov 09, 2011
Nairobi: Internet companies such as Google, Twitter and Facebook are increasingly co-opted for surveillance work as the information they gather proves irresistible to law enforcement agencies, Web experts said this week. Although such companies try to keep their users' information private, their business models depend on exploiting it to sell targeted advertising, and when governments demand they hand it over, they have little choice but to comply. Suggestions that BlackBerry...
07:50 PM, Sep 30, 2011
London: Facebook faces regulatory scrutiny in Ireland, site of its European headquarters, over its handling of personal information, the Financial Times reported on Friday. The newspaper said the Irish data protection commissioner is to conduct a privacy audit of Facebook's activities outside the United States and Canada after complaints by European and US privacy campaigning groups to the Irish commissioner and the US Federal Trade Commission. The groups raised concerns...
07:59 AM, Sep 30, 2011
Washington: A proposed update of the US online privacy rule for children would revise definitions of personal information and beef up parental consent mechanisms to reflect technological changes. The Federal Trade Commission plan would modify its Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule that gives parents a say over what information websites and other online providers can collect about children under the age of 13. "In this era of rapid technological change,...
12:30 PM, Sep 16, 2011
New York: It's a modern-day dilemma: You really want your Facebook friends to see that wild party photo of you wearing bunny ears. But you're not so keen on explaining it to your mother-in-law. Well, Facebook aims to make life easier. Beginning Wednesday, the social network will make it easier to share photos, posts and links with smaller, isolated groups of people. While the site has allowed users to separate...
06:18 AM, Sep 14, 2011
San Francisco: Drunken revellers rejoice: Facebook will now let you decide whether your friends can attach your name to a photo before it is circulated. Currently, your friends can add your name to a photo on Facebook without your consent or knowledge. You can remove it later, but only after lots of others may have seen the embarrassing shots. Now, you can insist on pre-approval. This won't affect whether your...
08:05 AM, Aug 24, 2011
Washington: The US federal government has put Google, Microsoft, Apple and other technology companies on notice: Give consumers a way prevent advertisers from tracking their movements across the Web - or face regulation. Yet for all its innovative know-how and entrepreneurial spirit, the technology industry has yet to agree on a simple, meaningful solution to protect consumer privacy on the Internet. So privacy watchdogs and lawmakers are stepping up the...
07:47 AM, Jul 27, 2011
Seoul: Apple Inc's Korean unit has paid compensation to a user of its popular iPhone after collecting location data without consent, lawyers and court officials said, the first payout by the company over these complaints. In May, Apple Korea was ordered by the court to pay 1 million won ($946) in compensation to Kim Hyung-suk, a lawyer, two officials at Changwon District Court told Reuters on Thursday. They declined to...
07:15 PM, Jul 14, 2011
