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Date Article Title Publication Author Synopsis
1/23/2012 TRUSTe secures $15M for increased online privacy managment VentureBeat Lindsey Compton TRUSTe, an online privacy solution provider, has secured $15 million from investors to boost its technology platform.
1/19/2012 Foreign Cloud Privacy Issues Dismissed by U.S. Officials Network World Kenneth Corbin Senior U.S. officials spoke to reporters seeking to allay fears surrounding the protection of data held in cloud data centers. 
1/17/2012 Google launches ad campaign to ease privacy concerns Los Angeles Times Jessica Guynn Google will launch a new ad campaign designed to alleviate privacy concerns.
1/17/2012 Young, in Love and Sharing Everything, Including a Password New York Times Matt Richtel A report on a new trend among young people as a way to express affection: sharing passwords. 
1/13/2012 FTC seeks to rein in Facebook The Stanford Daily Josh Hoyt Federal Trade Commissioner Julie Brill discussed the commission's increasing involvement in online privacy--specifically the actions taken against Facebook, Google and Twitter and recent calls for sites to implement do-not-track features.
1/10/2012 Google 'Search Plus Your World' Brings Google+ Into Search Results Huffington Post Michael Liedtke Google search results will now include photos and commentary from its Google+ social network.
1/9/2012 Lawmakers accuse Facebook of ducking questions on its privacy practices The Hill Gautham Nagesh Two lawmakers are not impressed with Facebook's recent response to their inquiry over the company's online tracking practices.
1/6/2012 Privacy Group Wants Gov Probe Into Facebook Timeline Forbes.com Kashmir Hill A report on concerns from the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) that Facebook's "Timeline" redesign could violate the social network's recent settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). 
12/28/2011 The Times E-Mails Millions by Mistake to Say Subscriptions Were Canceled New York Times Amy Chozick The New York Times says data security has not been compromised after it accidentally sent an e-mail to 8 million people telling them that they had canceled their subscriptions. 
12/23/2011 Finding the Unique in You to Build a Better Password New York Times Nicole Perlroth Studies show that sophisticated technologies are making it easier for hackers to crack the current system of user authentication--passwords--meaning some tech firms are looking at other ways of identifying users.
12/19/2011 How QR codes hide privacy, security risks MSNBC Meg Shannon A report on the increasing use of QR or "quick response" codes--puzzle-like square matrixes that populate ads and promotional posters to provide smartphone users with product details. 
12/14/2011 Online Privacy: Most Americans Find Government More Trustworthy Than Businesses Huffington Post Barbara Ortutay A new study has found that a majority of Americans deem government and big media websites to be more reliable and trustworthy than private business websites.
12/12/2011 Is our relationship with Facebook and Google turning sour? BBC News Jane Wakefield A report on Web giants in the social networking and search spheres and the convenience they provide to users, suggesting privacy "is becoming the thorn in the side of this marriage of convenience." 
12/11/2011 Disruptions: Privacy Fades in Facebook Era New York Times Nick Bilton Nick Bilton describes how easily a supposedly anonymous Web user can be identified.
12/8/2011 People care about privacy on social networking sites: Survey by international privacy commissioners - media release Privacy Commissioner of New Zealand   A recent survey conducted by the Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities has revealed that people care about their privacy when it comes to social networking sites.
12/7/2011 Employees Use 1930s Labor Law Today for Social Media Protection IAPP Staff Workers are now using a decades-old labor law to defend themselves from repercussions for making online comments about their employers.
12/6/2011 Official: White House privacy paper imminent Politico.com Jennifer Martinez White House Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Internet Policy Daniel Weitzner has said the Obama Administration's whitepaper on online privacy will be released "in a matter of weeks."
12/4/2011 Five Solutions To The Privacy Problem: Why They Work And Why They Don’t Paid Content Jeff Roberts A report outlines five popular proposals--with pros and cons for each--to give consumers control over their personal information online. 
12/3/2011 Could the U.S. Government Start Reading Your Emails? Fox News John Brandon A report on a security research project built to scan instant messages, texts and e-mails. 
11/30/2011 Markey Presses Amazon For Privacy Answers Online Media Daily Wendy Davis Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) is displeased with Amazon's response to his inquiry about its plans for the data collected by one of its browsers.
11/29/2011 Our Commitment to the Facebook Community Facebook Mark Zuckerberg Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the creation of two new chief privacy officer positions as part of an effort to address a proposed eight-point settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). 
11/29/2011 Emphasizing privacy, Posterous sees users grow San Francisco Chronicle C. Newton A startup that has created a blog option that focuses on privacy and controlled sharing is adding 15,000 users daily.
11/28/2011 Twitter Adds Team Who Created Privacy Tools for Activists Wall Street Journal Amir Efrati Twitter has acquired Whisper Systems, a technology company that developed a software suite to protect people's cellphone and text communications from being obtained by third parties.
11/15/2011 Google Allows Wi-Fi Owners to Opt Out of Database New York Times Kevin J. O'Brien Google has agreed to provide a WiFi opt-out method for users who prefer to keep the names and locations of their wireless routers out of the company's database. 
11/15/2011 How Much Should People Worry About the Loss of Online Privacy? Wall Street Journal Julia Angwin The Wall Street Journal assembled a diverse panel of experts to discuss the degree to which individuals should worry about their online privacy.
11/15/2011 Facebook security breach raises concerns Washington Post Hayley Tsukayama A report on a Facebook spam attack causing graphic images to be posted on some users' profile pages.
11/14/2011 White House urges greater self-regulation of online privacy Washington Post Cecilia Kang Internet firms should create self-imposed rules to be enforced by the Federal Trade Commission. 
11/14/2011 W3C Proposes Do Not Track Privacy Standard Information Week Matthew J. Schwartz The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released the first draft of its proposed standards for do not track.
11/14/2011 Klout’s privacy challenges grow in step with influence Financial Post Matt Hartley A company that ranks users' online influence using their social media activity is facing criticism for creating "shadow profiles" of non-users without permission.
11/8/2011 Advertisers release first self-regulation results Washington Post Hayley Tsukayama The Online Interest-Based Advertising Accountability Program, established in August to oversee the advertising industry's self-regulation efforts, has released the results of its first six compliance cases.
11/3/2011 Facebook Timeline a new privacy test USA Today Michaelle Bond A report on Facebook's impending overhaul of its members' profile pages with the unveiling of its new "Timeline" feature. 
11/2/2011 IAB Releases Online Data 'Lexicon' Online Media Daily Mark Walsh The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has published a new guide to help media planners, publishers and data providers communicate about their data uses.
10/28/2011 Lawmakers demand answers on user data from Facebook The Hill Brendan Sasso In a letter addressed to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, four lawmakers are questioning how the company handles user data.
10/28/2011 Social-Media Privacy Concerns Go Global Human Resource Executive Online Kristen B. Frasch  A report that just as social media use has become a worldwide phenomenon, "so too has concern over privacy breaches and potential employment-related litigation." 
10/25/2011 Google: Governments seek more about you than ever CNET News.com Elinor Mills A report from Google says government requests for user data are increasing.
10/19/2011 Will Amazon's Kindle Fire Web Browser Spy On You?  The EFF Gets Answers TIME  Jerry Brito The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) says the new browser offered by Amazon for its soon-to-be-released tablet computer poses no privacy threat to users. 
10/18/2011 Facebook's new features remain unpopular USA Today Byron Acohido A report on a recent poll of more than 2,000 U.S. adults that indicates the more individuals use the world's largest social networking site, the less concerned they are about their privacy. 
10/18/2011 Mysterious Site Creates a Horror Movie, Starring You New York Times Jenna Wortham A new website--used by 300,000 people in its first 24 hours--accesses information from peoples' Facebook accounts to create a personalized horror movie featuring a man browsing through the user's account and "getting increasingly agitated." 
10/15/2011 The Default Choice, So Hard to Resist New York Times Steve Lohr Examining the role of default design choices in online privacy.
10/14/2011 Questions for Amazon on Privacy and the Kindle Fire New York Times David Streitfeld Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA) has written to Amazon CEO Jeffrey Bezos with questions about how the company plans to use the data it collects from its new browser, which is partly housed on Amazon servers.
10/11/2011 Online privacy leaks worsen; “Do not track” gains steam Reuters   Reuters reports on a Stanford University researcher's finding that dozens of companies are gathering and selling bits and pieces of presumably "anonymous" data on users. 
10/11/2011 FTC chairman shares lawmakers' privacy concerns about Facebook The Hill Brendan Sasso Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Jon Leibowitz said he shares "general privacy concerns" that have been expressed by lawmakers who have called on the FTC to investigate Facebook's online tracking practices.
10/10/2011 Government Aims to Build a ‘Data Eye in the Sky’ New York Times John Markoff Some researchers have come to believe that "the vast resources of the Internet--Web searches and Twitter messages, Facebook and blog posts, the digital location trails generated by billions of cell phones" could be used "to predict political crises, revolutions and other forms of social and economic instability." 
10/3/2011 Facebook changes touch privacy nerve USA Today Byron Acohido 10 consumer and privacy groups and two U.S. representatives have called on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate Facebook's new sharing mechanisms. 
10/3/2011 Are We Too Hung Up on Privacy? Wall Street Journal L. Gordon Crovitz Journalism Prof.  Jeff Jarvis's frank online postings about his prostate cancer and the at-times embarrassing side effects of treatment allowed him to receive support and advice from male readers who suffered the same disease.
10/3/2011 Early D.C. Facebook hire departs Politico.com Anna Palmer & Tony Romm Facebook's Washington-based director of public policy, Tim Sparapani, is leaving the company to "pursue new opportunities." 
10/2/2011 China group’s eye on Yahoo fuels privacy fears Financial Times Richard Waters Privacy advocates say "the possibility of Yahoo falling under Chinese control raises significant privacy risks." 
9/29/2011 Privacy advocates ask FTC to investigate Facebook Wall Street Journal Hayley Tsukayama The Electronic Privacy Information Center and 10 other privacy and civil rights advocacy groups have asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)  to investigate Facebook's use of cookies and recent changes to its site.
9/29/2011 Spotify bows to privacy pressure as Facebook sharing meets friction Financial Times Tim Bradshaw and April Dembosky Music streaming site Spotify has introduced new privacy features in the wake of complaints about its integration with the world's largest social network.
9/29/2011 Amazon's Silk browser raises privacy, security eyebrows Computerworld Gregg Keizer A report on Amazon's new Silk browser and the concerns raised by privacy advocates. 
9/27/2011 Facebook fixes cookie behavior after logging out ZDNet Emil Protalinski Facebook has denied technologist Nik Cubrilovic's claim that the social networking site tracks users even after they have logged out. 
9/26/2011 Privacy advocates oppose Facebook changes Washington Post Hayley Tsukayama Facebook's planned redesign has some users and privacy advocates concerned.
9/26/2011 Dealing With an Identity Hijacked on the Online Highway New York Times Noam Cohen   Noam Cohen analyzes the "predicament" surrounding the loss of control of one's online identity through search engine algorithms. 
9/22/2011 Netflix pairs with Facebook, except in U.S. Washington Post Cecilia Kang At Facebook's f8 conference, Netflix announced that it will integrate its video streaming services with Facebook, allowing users to watch videos--and see what their friends are watching--on Facebook. 
9/19/2011 Privacy Risk Found on Cellphone Games Wall Street Journal Jennifer Valentino-DeVries A report on the use of smartphones' unique ID numbers as a way for criminals to access users' social networks. 
9/17/2011 Call It Your Online Driver’s License New York Times Natasha Singer The New York Times explores the issue of online identity authentication. 
9/13/2011 Google to Offer More Privacy for Owners of Wi-Fi Routers New York Times Kevin J. O'Brien Google will provide an option for residential WiFi routers to be removed from a registry the company uses to locate cell towers. 
9/13/2011 Facebook continues D.C. hiring spree with White House, privacy expert hires Washington Post Cecilia Kang Facebook has hired a privacy expert for its Washington, DC, office.
9/12/2011 Facebook Smart Lists to Group Friends, Protect Privacy Mobiledia Sandy Fitzgerald Facebook has been testing a new privacy feature with a select number of users.
9/4/2011 Microsoft denies that it's gathering data from Windows Phone camera The Next Web   Microsoft has responded to a class-action lawsuit, saying the location data it collects through its Windows Phone camera is not linked to a specific device or user
8/30/2011 Flickr's new geofence settings simplify privacy for geotag users ARS Technica Jacqui Cheng Image-hosting website Flickr has announced updates to its privacy settings allowing users to customize who sees geotags on shared photos. 
8/29/2011 Internet advertisers begin offering new do not track icon USA Today Byron Acohido The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has made today the deadline for its members to voluntarily display on their Web pages a do-not-track icon allowing users to opt out of online tracking.
8/29/2011 The Leaky Nature of Online Privacy Slate Magazine Kevin Gold Kevin Gold discusses the "leaky" nature of online privacy. 
8/28/2011 Electronic Arts Revises Origin's EULA Game Spy Nick Winter Video game developer Electronic Arts (EA) has revised its Origin digital distribution service End User License Agreement (EULA) after websites said the EULA gave the company the ability to collect users' personal information beyond necessary gaming data.
8/27/2011 Being Bad For Great Justice: A New Privacy Scandal Rocks Second Life Search Engine Watch Avril Korman An organization within the Second Life online virtual world is collecting real-world information on users, sidestepping the sites' terms of use and possibly some data protection laws.
8/26/2011 EA Games' EULA Protested for Privacy Invasion International Business Times James Lee Phillips Some gamers who have looked closely at one gaming company's end-user licensing agreement (EULA) say the policy goes too far. 
8/23/2011 What Facebook’s New Privacy Settings Mean For You Wall Street Journal Geoffrey A. Fowler Facebook has unveiled new options to help users manage the amount of information they share on the site and with whom. 
8/21/2011 Chris Hoofnagle discusses online privacy San Francisco Chronicle James Temple Chris Hoofnagle of the University of California at Berkeley Law School discusses marketers' online tracking practices, the upcoming FTC report on do not track and ways to better protect consumers online.
8/19/2011 Schleswig-Holstein commissioner orders site owners to deactivate analytics IAPP IAPP Staff The Independent Centre for Privacy Protection (ULD)--the privacy regulator for the German state of Schleswig-Holstein--has told website owners in that state to "shut down their fan pages on Facebook and remove social plug-ins such as the 'like' button" from their sites. 
8/18/2011 Groupon responds to Markey, Barton letter questioning privacy changes Washington Post Hayley Tsukayama Groupon has responded to a letter written by lawmakers inquiring about changes to the company's privacy policy and use of geolocation data.
8/18/2011 Latest in Web Tracking: Stealthy 'Supercookies' Wall Street Journal Julia Angwin A report on the latest online tracking methods, including the existence of "supercookies" found on popular websites. 
8/17/2011 EU takes on Internet giants The Prague Post Bill Lehane As debates continue about whether websites will self-regulate or be regulated, some experts are skeptical that the EU will be able to force Internet giants to follow potential online privacy regulations.
8/14/2011 Industry Tries to Streamline Privacy Policies for Mobile Users New York Times Tanzina Vega Privacy policies can be difficult to write and read--especially on mobile devices--prompting one company to create a tool to help mobile application developers make consumer-friendly policies.
8/11/2011 LinkedIn Backs Off Ad Scheme Over Privacy Gaffe Wall Street Journal Shayndi Raice LinkedIn has announced that it will no longer pursue its new form of advertising called "social ads," which shared users' activities and included their pictures.
8/10/2011 Anonymous to Destroy Facebook on Guy Fawkes Day International Business Times   A hacker group has threatened to destroy Facebook on November 5.
8/10/2011 Anonymous Threat Against Facebook Not an Official Attack, May Be a Hoax eweek.com Fahmida Y. Rashid A reported threat by a hacker group to destroy Facebook on November 5 may have been a hoax
8/9/2011 When Social Media Mining Gets It Wrong Technology Review Erica Naone Researchers at two technology-focused conferences in the U.S. warned of making "strong extrapolations about weak data." 
8/7/2011 Microsoft Researcher Calls Google+ Real-Name Rules 'Abuse of Power' eweek.com Clint Boulton A researcher known for speaking about issues of online identity and culture recently criticized the "real-name" policies of a popular social networking site.
8/6/2011 The Privacy Startups: A Chat System That Knows How To Forget Paid Content Joe Mullin A social network launched in April of this year claims to give people "real-world style, disposable interaction on the web." 
8/5/2011 The War on Web Anonymity Spiegel Online Marcel Rosenbach A report discusses what some describe as a war on online anonymity. 
8/4/2011 KISSmetrics 'Blindsided' By Privacy Complaints About New Tracking Technology Daily Online Examiner Wendy Davis Saying his company was "blindsided" by privacy violation allegations, KISSmetrics CEO Hiten Shah responded to a paper that disclosed the company's use of Etags.
8/2/2011 Foursquare Plans Could Stir a Privacy Problem BNET Erik Sherman Online deals company Foursquare is looking to bring in revenue by selling its merchants software that will enable them to track--and therefore better target specials to--their customers who use the service.
8/1/2011 Web-Analytics Firm KISSmetrics Reverses Course on Sneaky Tracking Wired Blog Network Ryan Singel A company specializing in Web analytics has changed its Web tracking operations to allow users to opt out of being tracked.
7/29/2011 Controversial phone app offering background checks is back Star-Ledger Leslie Kwoh A mobile application that allows people to conduct background checks is back in the marketplace.
7/28/2011 Fed Agencies Inconsistent on Social Media Policies GovInfoSecurity Eric Chabrow The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has audited the social media policies and procedures of 23 government agencies and issued a 90-page report disclosing the results. 
7/28/2011 Without proper laws governing public disclosure of data security hacks, Canadians remain at risk. The Mark Jonathon Penney Between large-scale data breaches bringing light to inadequate cybersecurity practices and the volumes of data that companies hold about their customers, privacy concerns are bubbling to the surface, but the lack of a breach notification law puts consumers at greater risk.
7/26/2011 Facebook tackles face-recognition privacy concern Reuters Edwin Chan A report on Facebook's efforts to simplify the opt-out process for users to disable its "Tag Suggestions" facial recognition feature in the wake of privacy concerns. 
7/26/2011 Under threat of regulation, tech industry takes on challenge of Internet privacy Washington Post Associated Press A report on increasing government pressure for industry to agree on an online tracking opt-out mechanism or face regulation. 
7/25/2011 Canadian casinos, banks, police use facial-recognition technology Globe and Mail   While social networks struggle with appropriate ways to use facial recognition technology, organizations across Canada have implemented it for a wide range of purposes.
7/22/2011 Stanford study shows opting out of Web tracking not so easy San Jose Mercury News Mike Swift New research from Stanford University has found that many online advertising companies continue to track users' Web activity even when they've opted out.
7/21/2011 Controversial ‘History Sniffing’ Is Back, And Bigger Than Ever Joe Mullin Joe Mullin A report on "history sniffing" and one company that embraces the practice. 
7/18/2011 Privacy Isn’t Dead. Just Ask Google+. New York Times Nick Bilton A new social networking site has learned the lessons of past privacy mishaps and made privacy the "No. 1 feature of its new service." 
7/18/2011 Tech IPOs grapple with privacy Washington Post Cecilia Kang Social media start-ups are realizing that--these days--privacy matters when it comes to their business models' success.
7/18/2011 Evidon Starts 'Certifying' Ad Network Clients Online Media Daily Wendy Davis Evidon, a company behind Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) you-are-being-tracked icons, is rolling out a new program to certify some of its clients.
7/17/2011 Why the US needs a data privacy law—and why it might finally get one ARS Technica Justin Brookman Justin Brookman of the Center for Democracy and Technology says recent congressional focus on consumer privacy may make this an opportune time for comprehensive privacy reform. 
7/14/2011 Lawmakers Investigate Google, Facebook Over New Privacy Concerns TPM Igor Bobic Lawmakers questioned the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Federal Communications Commission and the National Telecommunication and Information Administration on what steps they are taking to protect users' data online.
7/12/2011 Abine closes $5.2m funding round Boston Globe Chris Reidy Two venture capitalist companies have invested $5.2 million in a Cambridge, MA, company that provides online privacy services to Internet users.
7/12/2011 In the Google-Facebook race, privacy will determine the winner CNN Kevin Kelleher A report on new competition in social networking, and the report says privacy may end up determining the leader. 
7/11/2011 Groupon changes privacy policy to collect, share more information Washington Post Cecilia Kang Groupon has e-mailed its 83 million subscribers to announce changes to its privacy policy, including that it will begin collecting more information about its customers to share with its business partners.
7/10/2011 Privacy Issues Darkening Cloud Future? Technorati IT Richard Keggans Across jurisdictions, concerns about privacy in the cloud persist. 
7/8/2011 Gearing Up for Google+ Privacy Settings Wall Street Journal Amir Efrati and Tom Loftus A new social network planned to launch later this summer is using a limited-access trial period to get user feedback and make changes to features such as privacy settings
7/7/2011 Zynga makes privacy a game with PrivacyVille CNET News.com Erica Ogg An online game manufacturer launched "PrivacyVille," a tutorial on its privacy policy that users play like a game. 
7/5/2011 Fitbit Moves Quickly After Users’ Sex Stats Exposed Forbes.com Kashmir Hill An online fitness tracking company, which encourages users to share calorie-burning activities through the company's website, has reset its new-user defaults to "private" after unknowingly exposing some users' intimate activities.
6/29/2011 How can firms make the most of the opportunities in online personal data while retaining individuals' right to privacy? Wall Street Journal Nigel Kendall A report on the increasing challenges businesses face balancing technological innovation with individuals' right to privacy. 
6/28/2011 Another Try by Google to Take On Facebook New York Times Claire Cain Miller Google has introduced a new social networking service that will allow users to communicate status updates, photos and links.
6/27/2011 FTC's Brill: New online privacy tools needed Computerworld Grant Gross At a Center for American Progress event yesterday, FTC Commissioner Julie Brill said that the commission will continue to push for a universal mechanism to allow Internet users to stop websites and mobile applications from tracking them.
6/23/2011 Wanted: Privacy policies written for human beings IT World Dan Tynan While online privacy is based on a clear concept--people should have control over their personal information--the average privacy policy is not. 
6/22/2011 Firefox 5 focuses on security and privacy ZDNET.co.uk Ben Woods Mozilla has made its new do-not-track option easier to find and set in its latest Web browser update.
6/20/2011 Upending Anonymity, These Days the Web Unmasks Everyone New York Times Brian Stelter Brian Stelter suggests the Internet is becoming "the place where anonymity dies." 
6/19/2011 Google Rolls Out Online Privacy Tool ‘Me on the Web’ Social Barrel Francis Rey Google has unveiled a new privacy tool aimed at helping users manage their identities online. 
6/16/2011 Connecticut AG Seeks Meeting With Facebook Over Tag Suggestions Wall Street Journal Dow Jones Newswire A state attorney general has requested a meeting with Facebook officials to discuss the company's newly implemented facial recognition feature.
6/14/2011
Judge Approves $2.4 Million Quantcast Privacy Settlement
paidContent Joe Mullin U.S. District Court Judge George H. Wu has approved a final class-action settlement requiring Quantcast and Clearspring to pay $2.4 million.
6/14/2011 LinkedIn Privacy Changes Point To Social Ads Online Media Daily Mark Walsh A report on LinkedIn privacy policy updates as hinting at the introduction of "social ads" based on users' activities.
6/13/2011 Mozilla Chief: Government Alone Can't Solve Online Privacy Fast Company Austin Carr Government and tech companies alike have recently launched campaigns to solve issues of online privacy.
6/11/2011 Regulator asked to stop Facebook face recognition Financial Times Chris Nuttall A report that privacy groups have filed a complaint over Facebook's facial recognition technology with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. 
6/9/2011 Regulators probe Facebook’s facial recognition Financial Times Maija Palmer Privacy concerns continue to surface in the wake of the announcement of Facebook's new facial recognition feature, with regulators being called upon to investigate. 
6/8/2011 Facebook to Be Probed in EU for Facial Recognition in Photos Bloomberg Stephanie Bodoni Facebook has activated its facial recognition software, Tag Suggestions, aimed at simplifying tagging friends in photos on the site.
6/8/2011 Some Top Apps Put Data at Risk Wall Street Journal Spencer Ante A computer security firm has found that some popular mobile applications store users' personal data in plain text on their mobile devices.
6/8/2011 Facebook Facial Recognition Feature Facing New Scrutiny National Journal Juliana Gruenwald Privacy concerns abound after announcements about Facebook's new facial recognition feature allowing users to more easily identify and "tag" people in photos. 
6/7/2011 The West's Coming Internet War The Atlantic John Hendel John Hendel explores the push-and-pull between calls for a "right to be forgotten" online and support for an open Internet in suggesting the world's "two biggest transnational institutions may soon fall into a complex, ideological struggle over people's rights to digital expression." 
6/6/2011 Vodafone chief calls for internet rules European Voice Simon Taylor The chief executive of a UK-based mobile phone company is among those calling for global Internet regulation.
6/2/2011 Obama Administration Tries ‘Carrot and Stick’ on Web Privacy Wall Street Journal Scott Thurm The Obama Administration will continue to push for online privacy regulation while encouraging the industry to self-regulate.
5/31/2011 Report: Web Publishers 'Leak' Personal, Sensitive Info Online Media Daily Wendy Davis A new study concludes that many of the most popular online publishers are leaking reader data to outside parties. 
5/26/2011 What Big Data Needs: A Code of Ethical Practices Technology Review Jeffrey F. Rayport Jeffrey F. Rayport delves into "Big Data" and the myriad companies emerging that mine and aggregate "massive amounts of unstructured data"--800 billion gigabytes of which is currently available, estimates market intelligence firm IDC--for financial gain. 
5/25/2011 No Agreement on Web Governance at Summit Wall Street Journal Ruth Bender & Max Colchester "The Internet could be regulated, but not too much, not too soon and preferably not by a government." 
5/24/2011 G-8 Leaders to Call for Tighter Internet Regulation New York Times Eric Pfanner G-8 leaders are expected to call for stronger regulation of the Internet, including strengthened privacy protections.
5/24/2011 Five Not Totally Unfeasible Ways That The State of Privacy Could Be Worse Forbes.com Kashmir Hill Though some claim that privacy has been dead for years now, "it could be worse, and probably will be." 
5/24/2011 Privacy: Users aren't turning on Do Not Track browser features Consumer Reports Paul Eng Paul Eng says that consumer awareness of available privacy tools is low and suggests that companies should make privacy protection tools more user-friendly for their customers. 
5/22/2011 When the Internet Thinks It Knows You New York Times Eli Pariser Eli Pariser of MoveOn.org writes about the ability of algorithms and Internet giants to edit and sift through the Web's wealth of information, offering "personalized filters that show us the Internet that they think we want to see."
5/21/2011 The Privacy Challenge in Online Prize Contests New York Times Steve Lohr Two new online prize contests are raising questions about the challenge of protecting privacy.
5/20/2011 Facebook’s efforts to protect children’s privacy are “indefensible,” senator charges Infosecurity   Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) criticized Facebook's efforts to protect children's privacy. 
5/20/2011 Schmidt: Google Trying to Simplify Privacy Policies, but Lawyers Get In the Way Wall Street Journal Jennifer Valentino-DeVries Google CEO Eric Schmidt says the company is trying to make its privacy policies easier to read and understand--especially those for mobile devices--but required legalese makes it difficult. 
5/19/2011 MIT Prof: Data Privacy Is Your Problem (or Asset) Wall Street Journal Michael Hickins When it comes to controlling personal information online, the best option Internet users have lies in that old adage, "if you can't beat them, join them." 
5/19/2011 Google won't develop a facial recognition database PC Advisor Carrie Ann Skinner Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that Google is "unlikely" to create a facial recognition database, adding that the accuracy of the technology is "very concerning" and popularizing the technology may cause governments to pass broad-reaching laws with unintended consequences.
5/18/2011 Android smartphones face data breach threat Financial Times Tim Bradshaw Researchers from Germany's Ulm University have found a security flaw that could make it possible for hackers to breach data on certain Google Android applications.
5/18/2011 Google Brings TRUSTe Certification To Apps Marketplace Information Week Thomas Claburn In response to concerns about the data handling practices of Web apps, Google has introduced a TRUSTe certification in its Apps Marketplace--the online store offering business-oriented Android applications.
5/16/2011 Will a Crackdown on Privacy Kill Big Data Innovation? Gigaom.com Derrick Harris Derrick Harris examines a report by the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) that identifies "one very important issue to the future success of big data efforts: finding the appropriate balance between consumer privacy and business innovation." 
5/16/2011 Facebook's Anti-Google Fiasco Wall Street Journal L. Gordon Crovitz L. Gordon Crovitz writes about Facebook's reported hiring of a "public relations firm to plant negative stories about Google's privacy policies." 
5/13/2011 Personal Data: Most Top Apps Lack Privacy Policies Online Media Daily Mark Walsh A Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) study examined some of the most popular mobile applications available for major platforms and found that 22 of the top 30 have no policy stating how the app treats personal data.
5/13/2011 Adobe Adds Flash Privacy Controls Information Week Matthew J. Schwartz A report on Adobe's newly released Flash Player 10.3, which enables users to block the use of Local Shared Objects.
5/11/2011 Facebook Security Flaw Exposed User Accounts Wall Street Journal Geoffrey Fowler A security firm has exposed a Facebook vulnerability that allowed third-party applications to share "access tokens" with advertisers and analytics companies, giving them access to users' accounts--including the ability to post information, read wall posts, access friends' profiles and mine personal information.
5/11/2011 The Privacy Risks of ID Codes in Your Apps Wall Street Journal Jennifer Valentino-DeVries A report on research suggesting that unique smartphone identifiers can be linked with other information to allow third parties access to personal information without users' consent. 
5/11/2011 Congressmen Press Facebook On Privacy (Again) Wall Street Journal Geoffrey Fowler Reps. Edward Markey (D-MA) and Joe Barton (R-TX) wrote a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg questioning a recently reported security flaw that allows unauthorized third parties access to users' personal information. 
5/7/2011 There’s No Data Sheriff on the Wild Web New York Times Nick Bilton Nick Bilton poses the question of which federal law would apply when hackers breach consumer privacy by infiltrating companies' servers to harvest PII. 
5/3/2011 Study: Consumers Define Do-Not-Track More Broadly Than Web Companies  Daily Online Examiner Wendy Davis Initial results of a study of 200 Web users reveal that consumers might define the term "do not track" differently than Web companies.
5/2/2011 Customers stay despite high-profile data breaches Google Associated Press Consumers continue to share their personal information with online retailers and social networks despite the frequency and size of breaches involving sensitive data.
5/2/2011 Privacy Group Says Google Buzz Settlement Should Include Targeting Restrictions Daily Online Examiner Wendy Davis The Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) is asking the FTC to require Google to remove statements in its privacy policy that its behavioral advertising program does not collect PII.
4/30/2011 Data Privacy, Put to the Test New York Times Natasha Singer Natasha Singer reviews recent events in what she writes "was not a good week for those who guard their privacy." 
4/29/2011 Cellphone Companies Defend Privacy Practices Wall Street Journal Spencer E. Ante and Amy Schatz House Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus Co-Chairmen Edward Markey (D-MA) and Joe Barton (R-TX) have released the responses they've received from the nation's four largest wireless carriers following their requests for information about how the companies collect, store and share customers' PII.
4/28/2011 Demonstrating privacy accountability IAPP   Nymity President Terry McQuay discusses the renewed look at accountability as it applies to data privacy. 
4/27/2011 Most Mobile Apps Lack Privacy Policies: Study PC Magazine Mark Hachman TRUSTe's survey of 1,000 smartphone users that indicates privacy is a primary concern.
4/26/2011 Friendster to Erase Early Posts and Old Photos New York Times Jenna Wortham In the midst of ongoing calls for a "right to be forgotten" on the Internet, an early social network has announced it will erase old posts and photos from its site. 
4/25/2011 Feds mine Facebook for info stltoday.com Robert Snell A report that federal investigators in Detroit, MI, obtained search warrants allowing them access to the Facebook accounts of suspected criminals. 
4/23/2011 Web Standards Group To Tackle Do-Not-Track Online Media Daily Wendy Davis The Web standards organization, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), will meet to examine online privacy and the main issues surrounding a universal do-not-track mechanism.
4/20/2011 Tracking File Found in iPhones New York Times Nick Bilton Researchers have found that Apple's iPhone and iPad record their locations in hidden files.
4/19/2011 Jon Leibowitz: Google should step up on privacy Politico Mike Zapler FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz is praising the efforts by online companies to offer do-not-track options to Internet users, while calling for those who have not yet introduced such functions to move forward.
4/18/2011 Obama's online trusted ID plan greeted with caution Computerworld Jaikumar Vijayan The White House has released its National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, an identity and authentication strategy that is the result of collaboration between industry, government and privacy advocates. 
4/18/2011 Yahoo Will Keep Search Queries for 18 Months New York Times Verne Kopytoff Yahoo disclosed that it will extend the length of the term it retains user data to 18 months.
4/14/2011 White House To Release Final Trusted Identity Plan Information Week Elizabeth Montalbano The White House is scheduled to release the final version of its National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC).
4/13/2011 FTC chairman Leibowitz: Do Not Track will happen even without legislation Consumer Reports Donna L. Tapellini A day before Apple unveiled its privacy tool aimed at allowing users to keep their online habits from being monitored, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz was quoted as saying he believes the call for widespread do-not-track implementation will be answered. 
4/8/2011 If You Die Tomorrow, Who Will Bury Your Data Six Feet Under? All Things Digital Drake Martinet All Things Digital explores the question "Who will be reading your e-mail after you die?" in a feature on a new startup aimed at letting users decide. 
4/7/2011 No More Privacy Paranoia Slate Farhad Manjoo This article explores the implications of a proposed FTC settlement with Google over its Buzz social network, questioning the impact of required privacy audits included in the proposal. 
4/6/2011 Paying For Privacy National Public Radio Tom Ashbrook Many Web sites are "snatching, saving, selling information on every click you make, every bit of personal data they can grab," notes Tom Ashbrook.
4/5/2011 Mobile-App Makers Face U.S. Privacy Investigation Wall Street Journal Amir Efrati, Scott Thurm and Dionne Searcey A report on an investigation by federal prosecutors into whether certain smartphone applications obtained or shared information about their users without proper disclosures. 
4/5/2011 CMP: Smart meter bills come with huge costs Portland Press Herald Tux Turkel Allowing customers to opt out of Central Maine Power's (CMP) smart meter plan or imposing a one-year ban on further installations would kill the project and cost ratepayers tens of millions of dollars.
4/1/2011 Erasing the Digital Past New York Times Nick Bilton A report on efforts to make the Internet forget likens the proliferation of personal information online to "a metastasized cancer" that has "embedded itself into the nether reaches of cyberspace, etched into archives, algorithms and a web of hyperlinks." 
3/31/2011 G-8 du Web New York Times   More details have emerged about plans to include Internet privacy on the agenda of the Group of 8 summit in France this year. 
3/30/2011 Reps. Seek Privacy Policy Info from Wireless Carriers broadcastingcable.com John Eggerton The House Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus Co-Chairs Edward Markey (D-MA) and Joe Barton (R-TX) are asking the nation's top four wireless carriers for information on how they handle the collection, use and storage of data. 
3/30/2011 Miss Manners: Privacy rules, even during a video chat Washington Post Miss Manners Even Miss Manners is weighing in on data privacy concerns. 
3/29/2011 Everything you do online reveals your identity thinq.co.uk James Nixon When it comes to protecting privacy online, the biggest threat lies in the everyday details Internet users share without realizing that even anonymous postings can be correlated to expose their identities. 
3/28/2011 The 0.00002% Privacy Solution Wall Street Journal Gordon Crovitz A recent study indicates that more than half of all Americans over the age of 12 are now part of the world's largest social network.
3/28/2011 Facebook Prepares to Add Friends in Washington New York Times Miguel Helft and Matt Richtel Facebook's payroll increasingly contains names from Capitol Hill these days.
3/25/2011 Microsoft to FTC: Don’t tell us how long to retain users’ private data Network World Robert Mullins Robert Mullins looks at recent efforts by several high-profile Internet browsers to offer their own do-not-track options, suggesting, "user information is highly coveted by tech companies, their marketers and advertisers, so I don't think industry self-regulation--as some have advocated--will be sufficient." 
3/24/2011 PG&E unveils 'opt-out' plan for its controversial SmartMeter program San Jose Mercury News Patrick May and Dana Hull Following protests from customers and concerns voiced by advocates, California's public utility has released an opt-out plan for its smart meter program, meeting a deadline set by the California Public Utilities Commission. 
3/23/2011 Is It Time For Privacy Nutrition Labels? Forbes.com Kashmir Hill An article about the work of a team of Carnegie Mellon researchers to come up with a new format for informing Internet users about their privacy. 
3/22/2011 Your Face: Starring in a Facebook Ad Near You PC World Dan Tynan Facebook's "sponsored stories" ad plan, which has raised concerns among privacy advocates, is now being rolled out across the social network. 
3/22/2011 Google, Yahoo and TRUSTe Advance Self-Reg Plans ClickZ Kate Kaye In light of concerns from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and recent calls on Capitol Hill for broad-based privacy legislation, several online industry leaders are taking steps to encourage self-regulatory practices. 
3/21/2011 Wolverton: 'Eye tracking' may be coming to your computer San Jose Mercury News Troy Wolverton A Swedish company has unveiled a new system to track what users are viewing on a computer screen based on eye movement.
3/20/2011 Do not track tools push firms to crossroad San Francisco Chronicle James Temple Mozilla's new version of Firefox and Microsoft's updated Internet Explorer both contain do-not-track features allowing users to state their preference about how their online movements are used to serve them ads. 
3/16/2011 NEW CONCERN: THE SOCIAL MEDIA DIVIDE MSNBC Bob Sullivan According to a Ponemon Institute study, 58 percent of social network users feel their privacy is less important to them than it was five years ago, while 53 percent of non-users said it is more important.
3/16/2011 Web Companies Should Practice 'Data Stewardship' PC World Mark Sullivan Mark Sullivan writes of the importance of "data stewardship," urging responsible treatment of personal information "on the part of the social networks, ad networks and data brokers who use it to make money."
3/15/2011 Etsy reacts to user outrage, makes changes to feedback system ARS Technica Jacqui Cheng As a result of privacy concerns voiced by a number of users, an e-commerce Web site has decided to stop publishing customers' purchase histories within user feedback posts. 
3/15/2011 How to Mine Customer Data the Right Way PC World Robert Vamosi Tips on how companies can mine customer data without intruding on privacy. 
3/10/2011 Data Mining: How Companies Now Know Everything About You Time  Joel Stein Joel Stein writes of the ways data-mining companies are able to amass rich stores of information about Web users.
3/9/2011 Dear Mr. Zuckerberg… Capitol Watch Daniela Altimeri A report on a letter by Democratic U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal, Al Franken, Sheldon Whitehouse and Charles Schumer asking Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to do more to protect users' privacy. 
3/9/2011 Google Privacy Lawyer’s Fascinating (and Unofficial) Thoughts on the ‘Right to be Forgotten’ Forbes.com Kashmir Hill Across borders, discussions are in full swing over the dichotomy between the Internet's inability to forget and the call for a "right to be forgotten." 
3/4/2011 The Footprints of Web Feet New York Times Austin Considine Exploring Web sites that track users' browser history for public viewing, questioning whether individuals will choose to share such information, which can range from visits to online dating and banking sites to exploring medical conditions, and pointing to the assurances site developers are making about privacy. 
3/1/2011 Facebook Facelifts Its Privacy Policy New York Times Riva Richmond Facebook asked users of the site to look at and comment on a newly-formatted privacy policy aimed at making the policy easier for users to understand.
2/28/2011 Web's Hot New Commodity: Privacy Wall Street Journal Julia Angwin and Emily Steel Entrepreneur Shane Green's company allows people to personally profit from providing companies with their personal data, which he says has become "a new form of currency." 
2/28/2011 Microsoft Executive Urges Online Ad Industry to Police Itself Wall Street Journal Emily Steel Speaking at an Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) event, Microsoft's Rik van der Kooi recommended that industry move to address privacy issues centered on online tracking.
2/28/2011 Facebook plans to resume address, phone sharing CNET News.com Declan McCullagh As Facebook plans to reactivate a feature that would allow third-party applications to request contact information from users, Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) says he is not satisfied with the company's response to his inquiry about such features.
2/27/2011 Wall Street Journal Privacy Series Inspires One Start-Up Wall Street Journal Julia Angwin Concerns about privacy have prompted the creation of two start-ups that aim to provide online users with more choice. 
2/26/2011 Microsoft, Facebook Offer New Approaches to Boost Web Privacy Wall Street Journal Julia Angwin and Geoffrey A. Fowler Internet companies are taking steps to address calls for stronger online protection for Internet users.
2/25/2011 Online Trackers Rake In Funding Wall Street Journal Scott Thurm In spite of ongoing concerns about tracking and a push for legislation to regulate online advertising, companies that specialize in this kind of tracking continue to secure venture capital investments. 
2/24/2011 Interclick Launches Ad Platform, Fights Privacy Charges Online Media Daily Gavin O'Malley In the midst of a lawsuit and a heightened global focus on online behavioral tracking, behavioral ad network Interclick this week launched a video ad platform. 
2/24/2011 Microsoft Web Privacy Clears W3C Hurdle PCWorld Tony Bradley The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the governing body for HTML5, has accepted Microsoft's tracking opt-out proposal to protect consumer privacy.
2/22/2011 Research Reveals Online Privacy Is Situational: Consumers Concerned With Transparency, Control Online Media Daily Joe Mandese A report on recent research indicating that when it comes to online privacy, what consumers want is security and control. 
2/11/2011 Will do-not-track features and self-regulation initiatives be enough to stave off regulations? IAPP Jennifer L. Saunders Reports on Mozilla's launch this week of a do-not-track feature for its Firefox browser and plans coming forward from Google and Microsoft for their online browsers are raising questions as to whether such industry-created features will be enough to assuage U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) concerns about consumer privacy. 
2/11/2011 Microsoft's IE Chief Talks Browsing Privacy PC World Moritz Jager An interview with Microsoft's Dean Hachamovitch on privacy and tracking protection in IE9.
2/8/2011 Most Google, Facebook users fret over privacy USA Today Byron Acohido Most Americans are worried about privacy and viruses when using social networking media.
2/7/2011 A Conversation with Barry Schwartz The Privacy Advisor   Barry Schwartz shared his insights on the intersection of choices and privacy. 
2/5/2011 Mobile developers challenged to boost privacy InfoWorld Paul Krill Branches of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and others are launching a contest challenging mobile application developers to address privacy concerns for mobile phones and other portable devices.
2/4/2011 FTC settles complaints against credit report resellers CIO Grant Gross The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has approved proposed settlements of complaints against three credit report resellers for lax security practices that resulted in hackers accessing more than 1,800 credit reports without authorization between October 2006 and June 2008.
2/3/2011 Rep. Speier to introduce 'do not track' bill next week The Hill Sara Jerome Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) plans to introduce an online privacy bill directing the FTC to begin a do-not-track program for online advertisers.
2/3/2011 Fake Dating Site Lifts Pictures And Names from Facebook -- Without Asking San Francisco Chronicle Matt Rosoff The world's largest social networking site is "not amused" that two artists gathered public profiles of more than a million of its users to create a fake dating Web site.
2/2/2011 Lawmakers want more answers from Facebook NextGov Juliana Gruenwald As privacy legislation discussions continue at the federal level, Reps. Edward Markey (D-MA) and Joe Barton (R-TX) of the House Energy and Commerce Committee have again sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about privacy concerns. 
2/2/2011 New NIST Guidance Tackles Public Cloud Security Gov Info Security Eric Chabrow The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released guidance on cloud computing.
2/1/2011 Mozilla adds opt-in privacy to new Firefox builds v3.co.uk Iain Thomson Mozilla has confirmed that its Firefox 4 Web browser will include a do-not-track system allowing users to opt out of targeted advertising.
2/1/2011 New Study Shows Persistence Of ‘Flash Cookies’ paidContent Joe Mullin A Carnegie Mellon University study suggests that about 10 percent of popular Web sites may be using so-called "Flash cookies" to track users.
1/31/2011 DMA begins enforcement of industry self-regulation initiative Direct Marketing Frank Washkuch The Direct Marketing Association (DMA) has announced enforcement plans for its online data collection self-regulatory program. 
1/28/2011 Getting Online Privacy Policy Right AmericanProgress.org Peter Swire Peter Swire, CIPP, writes in support of a proposal in the Department of Commerce's new green paper to create a federal privacy policy office. 
1/27/2011 What Happens to Your Digital Life When You Die? law.com  Ken Strutin The amount of our lives spent online suggests that "one of the neglected ensigns of Internet citizenship is advanced planning."
1/27/2011 Does Telecom Data Fight Crime? Wall Street Journal John W. Miller U.S. law enforcement officials this week called for mandatory data retention periods for Internet service providers in order to better fight online crime, just as a European NGO released a report critical of data retention as a crime-fighting method. 
1/27/2011 Web Analysts Back Code of Ethics Amid Privacy Concerns Wall Street Journal Jennifer Valentino-DeVries The Web Analytics Association is supporting an online code of ethics in the midst of increasing scrutiny of the Internet data industry.
1/26/2011 Can A Start-Up Search Engine Compete On Privacy? Venture Capital Dispatch Jennifer Valentino-DeVries Does startup search engine DuckDuckGo's pledge to honor user privacy by not storing personal data or sending search information to other sites will provide a competitive edge against online search giants?
1/25/2011 The SOTU preview Politico Tony Romm Web giant Google is expected to unveil its own do-not-track tool for its Chrome Web browser. 
1/25/2011 The Digital Forecast Is Cloudy Wall Street Journal Viviane Reding There are many benefits to cloud computing, but European Commissioner Viviane Reding questions, "is there a dark lining to the cloud?" 
1/25/2011 What new privacy features in Chrome, Firefox and IE9 really do USA Today Byron Acohido New proposals to address online privacy concerns about behavioral tracking each come with their own set of challenges.
1/24/2011 Web Tool On Firefox To Deter Tracking Wall Street Journal Julia Angwin Mozilla is planing to give users a do-not-track option for its Firefox Web browser. 
1/24/2011 Will Ad Networks Be As Supportive Of Mozilla And Google Do-Not-Track Tools As FTC Is? Online Media Daily Wendy Davis Major media outlets are reporting on plans by Google and Mozilla to offer do-not-track options for their users. 
1/21/2011 Ad Groups Granted Extension To Comment On Do-Not-Track Online Media Daily Wendy Davis The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has extended the deadline for comments on its privacy report until Feb. 18 at the request of a coalition of industry groups.
1/19/2011 DuckDuckGo Challenges Google on Privacy (With a Billboard) Wired Blog Network Ryan Singel A report on DuckDuckGo, "a one-man-band search engine" that is taking aim at Internet giants' privacy practices with a prominent billboard proclaiming, "Google Tracks You. We Don't." 
1/18/2011 Facebook temporarily halts its latest privacy blunder The Inquirer Lawrence Latif Facebook has decided to suspend its latest privacy policy modification, which would have enabled third-party applications to access users' addresses and cell phone numbers.
1/14/2011 Experts: Gov't trusted Internet identities a long way off Network World George V. Hulme Information on the government's strategy for better securing the Internet by improving authentication. 
1/13/2011 Facebook changes its lobbying status in Washington USA Today Jon Swartz A report on efforts by Facebook in the midst of conversations by lawmakers and regulators considering changing online privacy law. 
1/13/2011 Adobe Aims to Improve Privacy Settings in Flash Wall Street Journal Jennifer Valentino-DeVries A report on efforts to improve privacy controls in Adobe's Flash video player after privacy advocates and regulators raised concerns that companies could use such technology to track Internet users. 
1/13/2011 Spokeo Draws Ire (and FTC Complaints) from Privacy Advocates for its Zombie Profiles Forbes.com Kashmir Hill A report on the Web site Spokeo, which aggregates data to offer profiles of people.
1/13/2011 Facebook Argues That Personally Identifiable Data Leaks Do Not Violate Wiretap Laws Online Media Daily Wendy Davis A report on Facebook's motion to dismiss a class-action lawsuit that alleges the social network violated its users' privacy by referring their names to advertisers. 
1/13/2011 Web Privacy Self-Regulation Accelerates AdWeek Katy Bachman In an effort to help ward off government regulation, digital ad buyers are aligning themselves with an online advertising industry self-regulatory program. 
1/12/2011 Adobe To Simplify Flash Player’s Privacy Controls paidContent Joe Mullin Adobe has announced it is taking steps to address concerns raised by privacy advocates and the FTC about its Flash Player program.
1/10/2011 Proposed Online ID System Raises Privacy Concerns International Business Times Jesse Emspak A report on concerns surrounding a proposed Department of Commerce system aimed at identifying people on the Internet. 
1/9/2011 Locke announces new office to secure online transactions The Hill Gautham Nagesh Commerce Department Secretary Gary Locke has announced the creation of a national office to secure online transactions.
1/7/2011 Privacy Policies Are Dead, Privacy Watchdog Says ReadWriteWeb Marshall Kirkpatrick Comments by Fran Maier of TRUSTe advocating moving away from privacy policies to focus on notifications for the collection of new data and the use of data in new ways.
1/6/2011 Facebook agrees to modify terms for states Associated Press Associated Press Facebook will modify its terms and conditions in order to facilitate state agencies' use of the site.
1/3/2011 FTC Chairman: 'Do Not Track' Rules Would Help Web Thrive US News Jon Leibowitz A point-counterpoint on the FTC's calls for a do-not-track mechanism.
12/31/2010 2010, the year that privacy died? BBC News Jane Wakefield A look at the year that was 2010 from a privacy perspective. 
12/27/2010 Invading our privacy on the Internet Los Angeles Times Jamie Court Consumer Watchdog President Jamie Court discusses privacy as an inalienable right, according to California's state constitution, urging California to create its own do-not-track mechanism if the federal government does not do so.
12/27/2010 Should the Government Control Who Tracks You Online? PBS   An interview with FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz and Interactive Advertising Bureau General Counsel Mike Zaneis on their perspectives on the FTC's proposal for a do-not-track mechanism. 
12/21/2010 Q&A: FTC’s Top Technologist Talks Data Tracking clickz.com Kate Kaye The Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) new chief technologist discusses data tracking. 
12/21/2010 Privacy vs transparency BBC News Maggie Shiels The BBC has published a dialogue with Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Co-founder John Perry Barlow on changes to privacy in this online age and the battle between what governments and organizations know about individuals.
12/20/2010 Cellphone Marketers Plan Rules on Privacy Wall Street Journal Scott Thurm Following media reports about smartphone apps sharing user data, the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), which represents smartphone advertisers and publishers, is calling for guidelines to better protect users from "intrusive tracking technologies." 
12/18/2010 Your Apps Are Watching You Wall Street Journal Scott Thurm and Yukari Iwatani Kane Your smartphone may be intelligent--knowing all about your contacts, locations and other information--but it is not good about keeping that knowledge to itself. 
12/18/2010 Privacy and Permission in the Global Age The Next Web Paul Sawers A review of data protection issues of the past year and the ongoing struggles of aligning privacy and permission with regulations that vary from state to state, nation to nation and continent to continent. 
12/18/2010 Mozilla touts Firefox stealth browsing Montreal Gazette Glen Chapman and Agence France-Presse  Mozilla says the next version of its Firefox Web browser will include technology to let users cloak their online activities.
12/10/2010 Seoul pushes for Facebook privacy Financial Times Song Jung-a Within days of a demand by South Korea's telecoms regulator for changes to Facebook's privacy policy, the world's largest social network has announced it has launched new mobile privacy controls. 
12/10/2010 Do Not Track On The Media Brooke Gladstone Commentary continues on the possibility of a do-not-track mechanism for the Internet that would allow users to opt out of having their browsing activities collected and used.
12/9/2010 The FTC Promises an End to History Sniffing (Microsoft, Take Note) Forbes.com Kashmir Hill When researchers exposed their discovery that some Web sites have been using an online security flaw to track what other sites their users have been visiting, "class action-lawyers and the government took notice." 
12/8/2010 Want Web Privacy? Pay for It. Slate Jack Shafer Jack Shafer writes for Slate on the Federal Trade Commission's support for do-not-track technology to give Web users privacy protection choices online as well as the legislative push to mandate such a privacy setting. 
12/8/2010 Microsoft Will Add a “Do Not Track” Tool to Internet Explorer, but It’s Complicated Forbes.com Kashmir Hill While Microsoft has announced plans to add a do-not-track tool to Internet Explorer, Mozilla is brainstorming creating built-in controls for its Firefox users. 
12/7/2010 Microsoft, Spurred by Privacy Concerns, Introduces Tracking Protection to Its Browser New York Times Tanzina Vega A report that Microsoft's Tracking Protection feature will let users limit the ability of third-party companies to track them online. 
12/7/2010 Advocacy group urges a broader view of data mining NextGov Aliya Sternstein One advocacy group is calling for a broader definition of data mining.
12/6/2010 Popular Websites Sniff Browser History, Researchers Find eweek.com Brian Prince While a recent lawsuit accuses an adult Web site of computer fraud for allegedly "history sniffing" its users' Web activity, researchers at the University of California, San Diego, are spotlighting the use of "history sniffing" to track user activity online.
12/4/2010 Protecting Online Privacy New York Times Editorial Board Reaction continues to the Federal Trade Commission's report on online privacy.
12/3/2010 Some Data-Miners Ready to Reveal What They Know Wall Street Journal Emily Steel A group of online tracking companies is building a service set to launch in January that will let consumers see what they know about them.
12/2/2010 Web Privacy 'Inadequate' Wall Street Journal Julia Angwin and Jennifer Valentino-Devries A report on the Federal Trade Commission staff report on Internet privacy. 
12/1/2010 FTC releases privacy report IAPP   The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has released its long-anticipated staff report on consumer privacy.
11/24/2010 Shunned Profiling Technology on the Verge of Comeback Wall Street Journal Steve Stecklow and Paul Sonne Two years after an outcry by privacy advocates in the U.S. and UK appeared to squelch its use, deep packet inspection is on the verge of a comeback.
11/23/2010 Privacy Groups Fault Online Health Sites for Sharing User Data With Marketers New York Times Natasha Singer The Center for Digital Democracy, U.S. PIRG, Consumer Watchdog and the World Privacy Forum are asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the marketing used by a number of health Web sites. 
11/18/2010 Data protection policies secure consumer trust Marketing Week Lou Cooper A study conducted recently by fast.MAP shows that online consumers are more likely to shop on sites that are easy to use, have obvious security features and a name they trust. 
11/16/2010 Commerce Dept. weighs privacy policy guidelines Washington Post Cecilia Kang A report on a Commerce Department draft of 10 online privacy oversight recommendations, including strengthening FTC rulemaking powers and enacting new data breach legislation. 
11/16/2010 Studies Find Success in Use of Privacy Icons New York Times Tanzina Vega Two recent studies indicate that privacy icons are effective.
11/16/2010 Privacy questions trail Facebook Messages Computerworld Sharon Gaudon Analysts and others are reacting to news that Facebook has launched a messaging system.
11/15/2010 Forget any 'Right to Be Forgotten' Wall Street Journal L. Gordon Crovitz On both sides of the Atlantic, privacy is front and center on the regulatory stage. 
11/12/2010 Self-Regulation Vs. Legislation: FTC, Commerce Dept. Set To Offer Differing Takes On Privacy  Daily Online Examiner Wendy Davis The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Commerce both are expected to publish reports about online privacy in the coming weeks. 
11/10/2010 Privacy spat heats up: Google taunts Facebook with “Trap My Data” feature Social Beat Riley McDermid Google has taken a shot at Facebook in what VentureBeat describes as a "battle of sass" between the two companies. 
11/10/2010 FCC investigates Google for Street View privacy breach Washington Post Cecilia Kang The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) confirmed that it is investigating Google's collection of personal data from unencrypted WiFi networks.
11/9/2010 Stage Set for Showdown on Online Privacy New York Times Tanzina Vega and Edward Wyatt A confrontation is brewing between Internet companies, federal regulators and legislators over online privacy rules.
11/9/2010 Internet firms must be accountable for data: execs Reuters Jasmin Melvin When it comes to handling the personal data they collect from users, Internet companies must hold themselves to high standards and be more accountable. 
11/8/2010 Founders of New Browser RockMelt on Privacy, Advertising Wall Street Journal Jennifer Valentino-DeVries Founders of a new browser aimed at social network users are not planning on selling ads.
11/6/2010 When a Camcorder Becomes a Life Partner New York Times Anne Eisenberg They are tiny, lightweight and can even be worn tucked into your hair accessory or just above your ear as they record everything that's going on around you. 
11/5/2010 The Facebook Skeletons Come Out New York Times Jeremy Peters & Brian Stelter With the prevalence of social networking sites, The New York Times reports that "it was a given that a generation of politicians would someday find themselves confronted with digital evidence of their more immodest and imprudent moments." 
11/3/2010 Facebook Response Prompts Strong Words From Privacy Lawmakers ClickZ Kate Kaye At least one lawmaker has expressed dissatisfaction with Facebook's response to congressional concerns about recent breach allegations.
11/2/2010 White House Issues Secure Cloud Computing Guidance GovInfo Security Eric Chabrow The White House has issued a draft document that is designed to help government agencies adopt cloud computing.
11/1/2010 Facebook Launches Friendship Pages, Raises Privacy Concerns Information Week Antone Gonsalves "Friendship Pages," a new Facebook feature that shows the relationship between friends, is raising privacy concerns.
11/1/2010 Rethinking Privacy and Cloud Computing eSecurity Planet Diana Kelly With privacy concerns abounding when it comes to Internet use and cloud computing, eSecurityPlanet explores the idea of rethinking privacy in the cloud. 
10/31/2010 Facebook Says User Data Sold To Broker Wall Street Journal Geoffrey A. Fowler and Emily Steel Facebook has announced a data broker paid application developers for users' information, prompting the world's largest social networking site to place some of its app developers on a six-month suspension.
10/31/2010 Geist: Facing up to the generational privacy divide Toronto Star Michael Geist Michael Geist writes of this past week's 32nd Annual Data Protection and Privacy Commissioner Conference and the focus on the perception of "a growing privacy divide between generations, with older and younger demographics seemingly adopting sharply different views on the importance of privacy." 
10/28/2010 Privacy Advocates Blast FTC's Inaction Over Street View Spying E-Commerce News Sidney Hill The U.S. Federal Trade Commission's decision to suspend its inquiry into the collection of personal data from unsecured WiFi networks by Google Street View vehicles has privacy advocates speaking out.
10/28/2010 New privacy czar might have Google's hardest job CNET News.com Tom Krazit Google has announced the selection of Alma Whitten as its new director of privacy.
10/27/2010 Congress Gives Facebook Privacy Homework Extension ClickZ Kate Kaye The U.S. Congress has given Facebook an extension to respond to an inquiry from House Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus Chairs Joe Barton (R-TX) and Edward Markey (D-MA) on recent privacy breach allegations.
10/27/2010 Americans Maximize Social Network Security Information Week Matthew J. Schwartz The Unisys Security Index surveyed 10,575 consumers in 11 countries and found that 80 percent of social networking users in the U.S.--more than in any other country studied--said they regularly limit the personal information they post and restrict others' access to it.
10/26/2010 Google executive pushes privacy concerns sfexaminer.com Dan Perry Only a small fraction of users of the world's largest search engine are taking advantage of privacy controls that allow them to choose which ads are steered their way.
10/26/2010 Senator Rockefeller Presses Facebook, MySpace on Privacy; May Write Bill Bloomberg Sara Forden In light of recent media investigations into social networks sharing user information with advertisers, U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) is asking executives of Facebook and MySpace for information about the breaches. 
10/26/2010 Google CEO:  Don't like Street View?  'Move' Computerworld Sharon Gaudon Comments by Google CEO Eric Schmidt in a CNN interview on issues related to recent privacy concerns around Google's Street View mapping service. 
10/25/2010 Firesheep Highlights Web Privacy Problem Wall Street Journal Nick Wingfield Social networks are becoming the focus of new privacy questions about how their logins can be accessed through WiFi networks. 
10/23/2010 MySpace, Apps Leak User Data Wall Street Journal Geoffrey A. Fowler and Emily Steel Following an investigation into a privacy breach involving popular applications on Facebook, social network MySpace and some of its apps have been found to be transmitting user information to outside advertising companies.
10/22/2010 Google Comes Clean on Street View Cars’ WiFi Data Collection Forbes.com Kashmir Hill Google has revealed that the data its Street View cars collected from unsecured WiFi networks included passwords and e-mails.
10/22/2010 Online privacy: What's at stake Fortune Chris Dixon Chris Dixon writes on the trend of Internet advertising targeting technologies that rely on "gathering information about users, something that inevitably raises concerns about privacy." 
10/21/2010 Public interest groups, advertisers at odds over feasibility of 'Do Not Track' list The Hill Sara Jerome A report on calls for a "Do Not Track" list that would prevent advertisers from tracking users' online activities. 
10/19/2010 Feds address Facebook 'privacy breach' MSNBC Helen A.S. Popkin Reps. Edward Markey (D-MA) and Joe Barton (R-TX) have written to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg following an investigation into third-party apps sharing user IDs with advertisers.
10/19/2010 Google ditches all Street View Wi-Fi scanning CNET News.com Declan McCullagh Google has no plans to resume the collection of WiFi data through its Street View vehicles.
10/19/2010 Facebook and Zynga Face Lawsuits over Privacy Breach Wall Street Journal Jennifer Valentino-DeVries Federal lawsuits have been filed in California and Rhode Island in light of reports that the world's largest social network and the company behind some of its most popular games violated federal law by sharing users' information with advertisers and tracking companies. 
10/19/2010 Personal data could become commodity BBC News Maggie Shiels A report on the U.S. Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) statement that companies seeking to make use of the personal information people share online should pay for it. 
10/18/2010 Facebook Vows to Fix a Flaw in Data Privacy New York Times Miguel Helft A report that some of Facebook's most popular applications have been transmitting user information to Web tracking companies has privacy advocates and legislators sounding an alarm. 
10/18/2010 Facebook in Privacy Breach Wall Street Journal Emily Steel and Geoffrey A. Fowler The most popular Facebook applications have been providing advertisers and tracking companies with users' identifiable information.
10/16/2010 The Do Not Track List and the Law of Unintended Consequences Tech News World Marc Roth An op-ed questions whether a "Do Not Track" list for the Internet would have unintended consequences. 
10/15/2010 Energy Department warns over smart grid privacy Computerworld Jaikumar Vijayan The Department of Energy (DOE) has published a report on the rollout of smart grid technologies and their impact on privacy.
10/10/2010 New Web Code Draws Concern Over Privacy Risks New York Times Tanzina Vega A report on HTML 5, the new Web language that will be rolled out over the next few years. 
10/8/2010 Facebook gives users 'single view' of all data used by apps Out-law.com   Privacy advocates are voicing approval of Facebook's new privacy features, which will allow users greater control over their personal data.
10/7/2010 Facebook Announces New Privacy Features National Public Radio Justin Sullivan Facebook has released new privacy options, allowing users more control over their data and communications.
10/7/2010 Former FTC Employee Files Complaint Over Google Privacy Wall Street Journal Jennifer Valentino-DeVries A former employee has filed a complaint with the FTC alleging an Internet company did not adequately protect the privacy of its users' search queries.
10/7/2010 Teens Want More Privacy Online Too Fast Company Austin Carr A Zogby poll suggests teens are looking for more control over their personal information. 
10/7/2010 TRUSTe tries to manage the massive problem of Internet user privacy ZDNET.com Tom Foremski Chris Babel, CEO of online privacy trustmark company TRUSTe, discusses the challenges the company faces and the benefits of the TRUSTe seal for online businesses. 
10/6/2010 Morrison & Foerster Client Alert: Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising Morrison & Foerster   Morrison & Foerster has released an overview of the self-regulatory program for online behavioral advertising. 
10/4/2010 Ad Group Unveils Plan to Improve Web Privacy New York Times Tanzina Vega Amid the ongoing push-and-pull between user privacy and advertiser access to Web data, the Digital Advertising Alliance, which is comprised of some of the industry's largest trade organizations, has announced the details of a self-regulatory program allowing users to opt out of being tracked online. 
10/4/2010 iPhone user privacy at risk from apps that transmit personal info ARS Technica Jacqui Cheng The user data collected by some smartphone applications can be correlated to real-world identities.
10/4/2010 Online groups introduce labeling for targeted ads ComputerWorld Grant Gross A report on efforts by the online advertising industry to "ward off tighter privacy regulations with a feature that helps Internet users spot when they are being tracked." 
9/30/2010 Google called chicken for dodging privacy debate USA Today Byron Acohido The advocacy group Consumer Watchdog is continuing its attempt to engage Google executives in a debate over privacy using a Times Square Jumbotron. 
9/29/2010 FTC Privacy Report May Be Released By Late October Tech Daily Dose Juliana Gruenwald Federal Trade Commission Chairman (FTC) Jon Leibowitz has confirmed that the commission will publish an online privacy report in the coming months. 
9/29/2010 Android apps share more sensitive data than users realize InfoWorld Ted Samson According to a study conducted by Duke University, Penn State and Intel Labs, of 30 applications for the Android smartphone studied, two-thirds exhibited "suspicious handling of sensitive data." 
9/28/2010 How to Protect Privacy in Cyberspace BankInfoSecurity Tom Field Jeffrey Rosen, author of The Naked Crowd and past IAPP keynote speaker, outlines privacy challenges for individuals and corporations, the evolution of privacy as a worldwide concern and what the future may hold.
9/27/2010 FTC's Top Consumer Cop Likes Personalization of Web Advertising Age Edmund Lee David Vladeck, director of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Bureau of Consumer Protection, spoke with AdvertisingAge recently on emerging online privacy and behavioral targeting issues. 
9/24/2010 FTC Hints at Findings in Upcoming Privacy Report Wall Street Journal Jennifer Valentino-DeVries Information on the forthcoming U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) report about online privacy.
9/22/2010 Changes to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) will be a priority for the Senate Judiciary Committee PC World Grant Gross Changes to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) will be a priority for the Senate Judiciary Committee.
9/22/2010 Flash Cookie Lawsuits Could Spur Courts To Reconsider Privacy Ruling Online Media Daily Wendy Davis A report on the recently filed lawsuits against companies alleged to have used Flash cookies to recreate HTTP cookies deleted by users. 
9/20/2010 The Face of Facebook The New Yorker Jose Antonio Vargas Jose Antonio Vargas shares a conversation with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg that touched on issues related to privacy. 
9/20/2010 'Cookies' Cause Bitter Backlash Wall Street Journal Jennifer Valentino-DeVries About a half dozen lawsuits have been filed in U.S. District Court over the past two months against companies that create advertising technology, alleging they violated federal law by creating tools that "essentially hack into users' machines without their knowledge." 
9/17/2010 A Loophole Big Enough for a Cookie to Fit Through New York Times Riva Richmond A report on the results of a Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) study that reveal that "large numbers of Web sites...appear to be using a loophole that circumvents Internet Explorer's ability to block cookies." 
9/17/2010 Advertiser exploits HTML5 to evade cookie controls on mobile devices, says lawsuit Out-law.com   A class-action lawsuit has been filed against Ringleader Digital, alleging the company tracks Internet users even after they delete cookies.
9/15/2010 Engineer Fired for Privacy Violations, Google Says PC World Sumner Lemon A Google site reliability engineer has been fired for violating the company's privacy rules for allegedly improperly accessing accounts belonging to several teenagers.
9/15/2010 Internet Founder Tim Berens-Lee Details 4 Concerns About Future of Mobile Web ReadWriteWeb Sarah Perez The Internet's creator believes that mobile devices will continue to evolve and pose new privacy challenges.
9/14/2010 Magid on Tech: Online privacy a key topic at UN-sponsored conference Mercury News Larry Magid Privacy was one of the key policy issues discussed at the UN-sponsored Internet Governance Forum held in Lithuania. 
9/13/2010 Police: Thieves Robbed Homes Based On Facebook, Social Media Sites WMUR News   Three men have been charged with burglary for allegedly breaking into homes that they knew were vacant because of the home owners' social networking posts.
9/10/2010 Digital-Privacy Questions Answered: Deleting Cookies Wall Street Journal Emily Steel The Wall Street Journal recently asked for questions from readers on technology and privacy, and a key question on many readers' minds, the report states, is, "Does deleting cookies force trackers to start over, or do they just pick up where they left off, combining the new with the old?" 
9/10/2010 Token Attempt: The Misrepresentation of Website Privacy Policies through the Misuse of P3P Compact Policy Tokens CyLab Pedro Giovanni Leon, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Aleecia M. McDonald, Robert McGuire The longtime tenets of no-say-do have been incorporated into the development of many privacy policies. 
9/9/2010 Microsoft's chief privacy officer opens up The Inquirer Wendy Grossman The Inquirer discusses online trust with Microsoft Chief Privacy Officer Brendon Lynch, CIPP. 
9/8/2010 Slow-Going for Web-Privacy Software Wall Street Journal Cari Tuna New companies aimed at helping people protect their online anonymity are facing a challenge.
9/8/2010 Online Ads, Privacy Remain in FTC Crosshairs ecommerce-guide Kenneth Corbin A Federal Trade Commission (FTC) official has hinted that the agency may "prod online advertisers and Web companies to adopt new education tools and data-collection restrictions in an effort to protect consumer privacy." 
9/8/2010 Q&A: Getting People to Pay For Privacy Wall Street Journal Jennifer Valentino-DeVries Following up its report on startup companies focused on privacy protection, The Wall Street Journal has published a Q&A with Eugene Kuznetsov, a former IBM executive and cofounder of the online privacy company Abine. 
9/7/2010 Vermont project to study smart-grid technology and privacy National Law Journal Karen Sloan Vermont Law School has launched a project to study the smart grid.
9/4/2010 No Crackdown but Questions in Europe About Data Protection and the Cloud ReadWriteWeb Alex Williams Concerns about the Safe Harbor Framework voiced recently by Schleswig-Holstein Data Protection Commissioner Thilo Weichert illustrate the importance of developing transparency and standardized policies in the cloud computing market.
9/3/2010 Google Settles Buzz Class-Action Suit for $8.5M PC Magazine Chloe Albanesius Google has reached an $8.5 million settlement in a class-action suit regarding its Buzz social-networking feature.
9/2/2010 Consumer Watchdog Group Goes After Google New York Times Nick Bilton A consumer group that has long been critical of how online companies address privacy has taken aim at Google in a very public way.
9/1/2010 Why Privacy Is Not Dead Technology Review Danah Boyd Researcher Danah Boyd says that the way privacy is encoded into software doesn't match the way we handle it in real life and that, as social media mature, "we must rethink how we encode privacy into our systems." 
9/1/2010 Microsoft's Davis on Privacy: Your Digital Life Data is Bankable Currency Network World Ms. Smith A report on the view of digital personal data as bankable currency. 
9/1/2010 Can Privacy Sell Ping? New York Times Riva Richmond Apple's Ping, a music-focused social-networking service for iTunes users, was introduced this week, and the company is promising simple and straightforward privacy controls, indicating companies are now seeing the potential for privacy as grounds on which to compete.
9/1/2010 A call for tech suppliers to embrace privacy principles The Last Watchdog Fran Maier Fran Maier of TRUSTe shares her personal experience underscoring the privacy risks that come with the "Internet of Things." 
8/30/2010 Ten Fallacies About Web Privacy Wall Street Journal Paul Rubin Emory University economics Prof. Paul Rubin discusses 10 fallacies about Web privacy. 
8/30/2010 Report: Facebook and the New Age of Privacy Fast Company Brian Solis Using social networking posts and media reports, Fast Company reports that "the line that separates privacy and openness remains undefined" as individuals weigh the "benefits and risks of living in public." 
8/29/2010 Dizzied by Data The Chronicle Daniel J. Solove The way we respond to the prevalence of online data will define the limits of privacy in the next decade. 
8/26/2010 UALR Research Creates Internet Privacy Tool www.usnews.com   A team from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock has created a unique model to manage user-generated content on social networking sites. 
8/26/2010 Q&A: How Do You Define ‘Privacy Harm’? Wall Street Journal Jennifer Valentino-DeVries Ryan Calo of Stanford University Law School discusses the key question that comes up in debates about online privacy, "What's the harm?" in cases where there is no fraud or identity theft. 
8/26/2010 For a fee, digital dirt can be buried Boston Globe Johnny Diaz A report on the increasing prevalence of Internet reputation managers. 
8/25/2010 Colbert Tackles Internet Privacy: 'Become a Disfigured Nameless Loner' TechCrunch.com Alexia Tsotsis Stephen Colbert discusses social media and its potentially negative consequences for young people seeking employment given the scope of personal information they frequently post to social networking sites. 
8/25/2010 Is 'Private' Data on Social Networks Discoverable? Law Technology News Alan Klein, John M. Lyons and Andrew R. Sperl A U.S. district court opinion appears to offer the first in-depth analysis on social network privacy settings and whether user information is protected from discovery by the Stored Communications Act (SCA) of 1986.
8/25/2010 Economist Debates:  Online Privacy The Economist   The Economist is asking its readers to weigh in on whether the government should step in to protect individuals' privacy on the Internet. 
8/24/2010 Microsoft ID guru slams 'duplicitous' Apple The Register Cade Metz  The debate over what is and is not personal information continues to play out, as witnessed in Seattle, WA, where one identity expert asserted that, "The notion that location information tied to random identifiers is not personally identifiable information is total hogwash." 
8/20/2010 WSJ UPDATE: Facebook Fights Privacy Concerns Wall Street Journal   Reactions to Facebook's new location feature, "Places," which range from concerns about privacy to nods to the company for improvement over past privacy-related issues. 
8/20/2010 BROKEN PROMISES OF PRIVACY: RESPONDING TO THE SURPRISING FAILURE OF ANONYMIZATION   Paul Ohm Paul Ohm writes about the ways that advancing computer science has "undermined our faith in the privacy-protecting power of anonymization" in his article entitled, "Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization." 
8/19/2010 With McAfee Deal, Intel Looks for Edge Ashlee Vance New York Times Chip maker Intel has acquired McAfee, which is one of the leading providers of antivirus and other computer security software, for $7.68 billion, turning to "security software and services as a way to separate its products from those of its rivals." 
8/19/2010 Tracking The Companies That Track You Online National Public Radio Julia Angwin A report on one of the fastest growing businesses on the Web, "spying on Internet users by using sophisticated software" to gather information that can then be sold to advertisers. 
8/19/2010 Teacher Loses Job After Commenting About Students, Parents on Facebook ABC News Ki Mae Heussner and Dalia Fahmy A Massachusetts teacher is no longer employed at a Cohasset school due to unfavorable comments she made about students and parents on a social networking site.
8/18/2010 Facebook Unveils a Service to Announce Where Users Are New York Times Miguel Helft and Jenna Wortham Facebook introduced a new geolocation feature that lets users share their locations.
8/18/2010 Google CEO Says Online Privacy Concerns May Lead People To Change Their Names CRN.com Jack McCarthy In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Google CEO Eric Schmidt describes a future where the transition from childhood to adulthood could include an option where adults can change their names to protect their privacy later in life. 
8/15/2010 Internet Proposal From Google and Verizon Raises Fears for Privacy New York Times Noam Cohen   Privacy experts are questioning the impact that moving away from net neutrality, where ISPs are prohibited "from exploiting their role in delivering information to favor their own content or the content of the highest bidders," will have on online privacy. 
8/13/2010 Facebook's Privacy Puzzle Business Week Rick Wartzman Although Facebook has corrected a glitch that exposed user photos and screen names to anyone who supplied the site with a correct e-mail address but incorrect password.
8/13/2010 RIM outlines criteria for data access Victoria Times Colonist Giuseppe Valiante Research in Motion (RIM) responded to the Indian government's threat to "take steps to block" some Blackberry services if they're not made accessible to law enforcement there. 
8/12/2010 Online Advertisers Defend Industry Amid Web-Privacy Debate Wall Street Journal Jennifer Valentino-DeVries In the wake of reports on privacy concerns related to online advertising, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) is asking its members to help fund a campaign defending the industry.
8/12/2010 Privacy Baked In From The Beginning Media Post Publications Dave Morgan Looking at recent privacy issues ranging from Web tracking to street mapping, Dave Morgan writes in a blog for MediaPost that, "Many in the industry have been taking a lot of reactive--and appropriate--steps to deal with privacy issues as they surface...But all this is not enough." 
8/11/2010 Facebook Privacy Flaw Identified Information Week Thomas Claburn Following a security researcher's announcement that entering an e-mail address into Facebook's login page with an incorrect password could result in access to the user's name and profile photo, the company has acknowledged it is working on fixing a bug that it says "temporarily prevented" its systems from working correctly. 
8/11/2010 Google Criticized by German Data-Privacy Officials Over Street View Plans Bloomberg Stephanie Bodoni German data privacy officials are criticizing Google's plan to give property owners there four weeks if they want to stop their buildings from showing up on the company's Street View mapping service.
8/10/2010 Google Agonizes on Privacy as Ad World Vaults Ahead Wall Street Journal Jessica Vascellaro A report on a confidential Google vision statement drafted two years ago, describing the document as a glimpse into the company's "soul-searching" over the use of its "vast trove" of data. 
8/9/2010 Street View Privacy Fix Turns People To Ghosts Information Week Thomas Claburn Two University of California researchers have come up with a way to ghost-out the images of pedestrians captured in street-level photography.
8/6/2010 Tracking Is an Assault on Liberty, With Real Dangers Wall Street Journal Nicholas Carr Following up on an investigative report, The Wall Street Journal is exploring "The Great Privacy Debate" around consumer tracking on the Internet. 
8/6/2010 Browser 'Privacy Modes' Not So Private After All PC World John P. Mello Jr. "Don't do anything in privacy mode that you wouldn't do with the boss looking over your shoulder," warns an article examining the potential to discover users' online activities through Web browsers' privacy modes. 
8/5/2010 No anonymity on future web says Google CEO thinq.co.uk   According to Google's top executive, Internet users can look forward to a future with nowhere to hide online. 
8/5/2010 Lawmakers Seek Answers on Online Tracking Wall Street Journal Julia Angwin Following a recent report in The Wall Street Journal, Representatives Ed Markey (D-MA) and Joe Barton (R-TX) are seeking information about the privacy practice of 15 popular Web sites the newspaper's investigation identified as "installing the most tracking technology on their visitors' computers." 
8/4/2010 BlackBerry bites back at governments Guardian.co.uk Josh Halliday Research in Motion (RIM), the Canadian company behind BlackBerry smartphones, is rejecting reports that it would allow the Indian government access to user data shared via e-mail and instant messaging. 
8/4/2010 Google's Schmidt: Society not ready for technology CNET News.com Ina Fried Google CEO Eric Schmidt discusses some of the privacy-related issues spurred by the advent of new and evolving technology. 
8/4/2010 Private eyes are watching you (surf the Web) Christian Science Monitor Editorial Board "Commercial tracking software often secretly records where users go on the Internet. If businesses don't set their own clear, simple privacy standards, government may need to step in with a 'do not track' option." 
8/3/2010 Is Europe building Big Brother? Christian Science Monitor Jason Walsh Across the globe, critics believe governments have been engaged in a "surveillance land-grab" when it comes to online information.
8/3/2010 WSJ Tracking Story Riles Industry, Arms Privacy Advocates  Daily Online Examiner Wendy Davis The Wall Street Journal's recent report on the use of tracking technology by Internet companies "to trail users across the Web and create marketing profiles of them based on sites visited" is getting strong reactions from industry executives and privacy leaders.
8/3/2010 Falling through clouds San Francisco Chronicle Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols When it comes to computing in the cloud, the default contract from many major cloud providers puts the onus for any privacy problems on the customer--even if the provider is at fault for the breach.
8/2/2010 For Data, Tug Grows Over Serucity vs. Privacy New York Times Miguel Helft The threat by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to shut down mobile services on BlackBerrys highlights a growing tension between governments and communications companies
7/30/2010 The Web's New Gold Mine: Your Secrets Wall Street Journal Julia Angwin The Wall Street Journal's "What They Know" series, which includes a study of 50 popular Web sites that track user visits and a feature on the economic factors behind privacy decisions. 
7/30/2010 Did we pronounce privacy dead this week? CNET News.com Caroline McCarthy A report on a conversation between media industry pundit Jeff Jarvis and Danah Boyd of Microsoft that took place at the Supernova conference in Philadelphia, PA.
7/29/2010 Google Disables Android Apps Caught Collecting Personal Data Wall Street Journal   Google has suspended the sale of certain wallpaper applications after it was revealed at a hacker conference that they collect mobile phone users' personal data. 
7/29/2010 Lost Privacy, Innocence On the Internet National Public Radio Aaron Couch Aaron Couch thinks aloud about the privacy news and events of the past week, asking "what apps can I download and what social networks can I use without giving up too much?" 
7/29/2010 Tech Firms Lobby EU on Privacy Wall Street Journal John W. Miller As tech firms ready to sell remote computing services in the European marketplace, they are pushing for streamlined privacy standards in order to make cloud computing more viable in the 27-nation bloc. 
7/29/2010 Details of 100m Facebook users collected and published BBC News Daniel Emery Personal information from 100 million Facebook users has been published online by a security consultant who was able to collect data through the site's public directory.
7/28/2010 Technology and society: Virtually insecure Financial Times Joseph Menn Companies are now able to create detailed "digital dossiers" from the Web browsing, networking and searching many of us engage in each day, raising questions about personal privacy.
7/28/2010 Online privacy and building reputations: Q&A with Professor Turow of UPenn Washington Post Cecilia Kang "Joseph Turow, a professor of communications at the University of Pennsylvania and an expert in online privacy, thinks Internet users are woefully unaware of what information is being collected about them and how marketers are using that data." 
7/27/2010 FTC Weighs 'Do Not Track' List Congress Daily Juliana Gruenwald At the Senate Commerce Committee's hearing on online privacy, FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz testified that the commission is exploring the feasibility of an online "do not track" list and may recommend that firms detail the most "material terms" of their privacy policies in a small box so that controversial practices are not buried in fine print.
7/27/2010 Part II: Answers to Questions About Internet Privacy New York Times New York Times In the second part of a two-part series on questions to the experts about online privacy, The New York Times shares reader questions and responses from Michael Fertik of ReputationDefender and Paul Ohm of the University of Colorado. 
7/26/2010 Part I: Answers to Questions About Internet Privacy New York Times New York Times A two-part series with expert answers to readers' questions about online privacy as a follow up to the report, "The Web Means the End of Forgetting."
7/21/2010 Ask the Experts: Managing Your Online Reputation New York Times Jeffrey Rosen A report by Jeffrey Rosen on the challenges of living life in this age when the Internet has records of almost everything we do and forgets none of it. 
7/21/2010 Google Quizzed by Blumenthal on Street View Testing Before Data-Gathering Bloomberg Karen Freifeld Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has asked Google to respond by Friday to his question of whether the company tested its Street View software before using it, suggesting such tests should have revealed the potential for collecting personal data from unsecured wireless networks.
7/20/2010 Spokeo Suit Claims Site Offers Inaccurate Info PC Magazine Mark Hachman A class-action lawsuit has been filed in California against Spokeo, a search engine that provides personal information gathered from various public sources to paying subscribers, alleging much of the information is inaccurate.
7/19/2010 The Economics of Privacy Pricing New York Times Steve Lohr While at least one startup is banking on consumers wanting to use their personal information as "virtual currency that can be traded," making personal information a commodity poses challenges.
7/19/2010 The Web Means the End of Forgetting New York Times Jeffrey Rosen "The fact that the Internet never seems to forget is threatening, at an almost existential level, our ability to control our identities; to preserve the option of reinventing ourselves and starting anew," Jeffrey Rosen, author of The Naked Crowd and past IAPP keynote speaker, writes. 
7/16/2010 Half of social networkers worried about privacy: poll Washington Post Daniel Lippman A new poll indicates that half of Americans who have a profile on a social networking site are worried about their privacy.
7/12/2010 Consumers, marketers differ on electronic privacy, says Milne University of Massachusetts   A recently released study shows that when it comes to new technology, consumers have higher privacy expectations than marketers and most often prefer an opt-in method for collecting personal information. 
7/12/2010 Elusive Debtors Foiled By Their Social Media Sites National Public Radio Vanessa Roso Collection agencies are now using social networking sites to track down debtors.
7/9/2010 Millennials' Likely Lifelong Online Sharing Habit Pew Research Center Janna Quitney Anderson A study fielded by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project and Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center found that most technology experts and stakeholders believe the online sharing habits of the millennial generation will stay with them throughout their lives. 
7/9/2010 Facebook's privacy policies hit a language barrier CNET News.com Caroline McCarthy A report on the complications companies face in complying with data protection and privacy laws across national borders. 
7/6/2010 Erasing all digital footprints 'impossible' San Francisco Chronicle Alejandro Martinez-Cabrera Is it possible to erase our digital footprints from the Internet? 
7/1/2010 Facebook Privacy Controls Boosted for Applications eweek.com Brian Prince Facebook is now requiring outside applications and Web sites to let users know what data they collect from online profiles before asking permission from users for private information.
7/1/2010 Analysis: Google's private data grab means big legal trouble Reuters Diane Bartz Experts believe the international controversies surrounding Google's collection of private data from unsecured wireless networks may be the impetus for new privacy regulations.
6/30/2010 CDT Files Privacy, Credit Complaint Against Spokeo.com PCWorld Grant Gross The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against Spokeo, an Internet site that compiles such personal information as addresses, religious preferences and financial data on millions of U.S. residents. 
6/29/2010 Divorce lawyers: Facebook tops in online evidence Associated Press Leanne Italie All those details social network users share online can add up to an abundance of evidence in divorce cases.
6/28/2010 White House Cybersecurity Czar Unveils National Strategy For Trusted Online Identity Dark Reading  Kelly Jackson Higgins The Obama administration has outlined its plan for a system of trusted digital identities that aims to improve the security of online transactions. 
6/28/2010 How Facebook has changed our idea of 'too much information' Mercury News Scott Duke Harris Many "social networking companies with business models hungry for personal data" are encouraging users to "overshare" without comprehending the consequences.
6/28/2010 OMB Ends Cookie Ban Information Week J. Nicholas Hoover The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has updated a policy that restricted the use of persistent cookies on federal Web sites.
6/27/2010 How do you hide in the digital age? San Francisco Chronicle Alejandro Martínez-Cabrera In light of Web databases and services for "finding" people, privacy advocates are issuing warnings that a lack of online regulation allows companies to have too much control over personal information. 
6/24/2010 Only trust can overcome data privacy fears Marketing Week Ruth Mortimer Privacy remains a burning issue for online marketers.
6/23/2010 Online privacy firm gets millions in venture capital San Francisco Chronicle James Temple & Ryan Kim ReputationDefender, a California-based company aimed at helping its customers take control of their online information, announced it has secured $15 million in venture capital. 
6/23/2010 Facebook Close to Offering Location Service, CEO Says Business Week Kristen Schweizer The world's largest social networking site is "pretty close" to providing location-based services, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday at an event in Cannes, France. 
6/21/2010 Privacy certifer levels the playing field Financial Post Joanna Glasner Part of Web site privacy certification provider Truste's goal in changing its business model from nonprofit to raising venture capital is to reach out to smaller online companies.
6/21/2010 Tech firms more trusted than Facebook: poll Washington Post Daniel Lippman According to a Zogby Interactive survey, Americans trust big tech firms such as Apple, Google and Microsoft more than social networking sites. 
6/20/2010 Funds Invest in Privacy Start-Ups Wall Street Journal Pui-Wing Tam and Ben Worthen Venture capitalists are seeing the value of investing in privacy-related startups--to the tune of millions of dollars.
6/18/2010 Facebook Chides Privacy Coalition Over 'Open Letter' PC World Barbara Hernandez Facebook has released its response to an open letter from privacy advocates asking the company to address "outstanding privacy problems," saying it has already created measures to protect user privacy. 
6/17/2010 Privacy groups demand changes to Facebook v3.co.uk David Neal In an open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, a group of privacy advocates acknowledges the social network has made some positive changes but calls on the company to do more to address "outstanding privacy problems." 
6/16/2010 Facebook walks a tricky line weighing privacy vs. profit USA Today Jon Swartz With nearly 500 million members--the equivalent of the third-largest country in the world--social networking giant Facebook must walk a "tricky line" between respecting users' privacy and making advertising profits.
6/14/2010 Silicon Valley readies for privacy battle Mercury News Mike Swift While federal legislators and privacy advocates are calling for online privacy legislation, Internet industry leaders are raising concerns that the result could be stifled innovation if those regulations are too strict. 
6/11/2010 Will the cloud have its own Deepwater Horizon disaster? ARS Technica Jon Stokes A Pew Internet survey has revealed most experts agree that cloud computing will be ubiquitous by the year 2020
6/10/2010 Author Explores The Evolution Of Facebook National Public Radio David Kirkpatrick Author David Kirkpatrick got up close and personal with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg while researching his newly published book, The Facebook Effect. 
6/10/2010 Does Averting Cyberwar Mean Giving Up Web Privacy? National Public Radio Tom Gjelten Concerns about the potential for nations to use the Internet to secretly declare "cyberwar" on each other are bringing to light the challenge of balancing online privacy with public safety. 
6/9/2010 CDT Recommends Rewrite For Boucher Bill Daily Online Examiner Wendy Davis The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) has submitted written comments on the Boucher-Stearns privacy bill, recommending it be revised to include fair information practices.
6/9/2010 Q&A with Practical Privacy Series: Online Privacy Program Chair Lydia Parnes IAPP   Lydia Parnes, a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and former head of consumer protection at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), discusses the online privacy landscape--self regulation, online advertising, social networking and disengagement.
6/8/2010 TRUSTe Receives $12 Million in Series B Funding Wall Street Journal Kim Barsi Online privacy trustmark company TRUSTe announced today that it is receiving $12 million in funding from investors aimed in part at several initiatives including new certification initiatives in social networking, mobile and advertising, according to a company release. 
6/7/2010 Consumer Groups Call For Stronger Online Privacy Measures WebProNews Mike Sachoff A coalition of 10 privacy and consumer groups is calling for stronger privacy protections in the Boucher-Stearns privacy bill.
6/4/2010 Shaky Legal Case For Recent Facebook Privacy Suits  Online Media Daily Wendy Davis While recent lawsuits against Facebook may pose little in the way of a legal threat, the site should be thinking about privacy any time that it plans changes to its user settings.
6/3/2010 Google to hand over intercepted data Financial Times Miaja Palmer & Lionel Barber Google's CEO told the Financial Times the company will begin handing over data intercepted from private WiFi connections to European regulators within the next day or so. 
6/2/2010 Facebook CEO: Doing 'Reasonable Job' Protecting User Privacy Wall Street Journal   Facebook is doing a "reasonable job" of giving its users control when it comes to sharing their personal information on the Web.
6/2/2010 Yahoo faces privacy test with new e-mail features Google Associated Press In preparation for unveiling its new social networking option to its users, Yahoo is advising its 280 million e-mail accountholders to review their privacy settings.
6/1/2010 Yahoo to turn subscribers' e-mail contact lists into social networking base Washington Post Cecilia Kang Yahoo will soon be entering the social networking fray with a new service that uses its 280 million e-mail subscribers' contact lists to create a base for sharing information on the Web.
6/1/2010 Privacy worries inspire a new wave of startups San Francisco Chronicle Alejandro Martinez-Cabrera In the wake of recent backlash against Facebook and Google over their handling of user information, it is reported that "a slate of ambitious online startups are aiming to squeeze into the fields of social networking and search by touting a stronger focus on privacy." 
5/28/2010 Washington lawmaker looking for answers on privacy from Google, Facebook [Updated] Los Angeles Times Jessica Guynn Google and Facebook will respond to requests from House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-MI) to address recent privacy concerns related to both companies.
5/27/2010 Google Balks at Turning Over Data to Regulators New York Times Kevin J. O'Brien Google will not comply with requests from regulators in Germany and Hong Kong to surrender data collected from unsecured wireless networks, citing the need to address the "legal and logistical process for making data available." 
5/27/2010 Oregon Judge Slaps Google With Restraining Order Over Private Wifi Data (GOOG) San Francisco Chronicle Nick Saint A U.S. federal court has issued a restraining order prohibiting Google from destroying data it collected over WiFi networks.
5/27/2010 Privacy groups assail Facebook changes CNET News Declan McCullagh Privacy advocates have had mixed reactions to Facebook's announcement that it is rolling out new, simplified privacy settings. 
5/27/2010 Debate focuses on how to protect users' privacy if Web-tracking tools are allowed on federal sites NextGov Aliya Sternstein The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is expected to complete its revision of the White House ban on federal sites' use of Web-tracking devices. 
5/26/2010 Young'uns more guarded about online privacy than older folks ARS Technica Jacqui Cheng According to a study conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, young adults are more likely to pay attention to online privacy than most people think.
5/26/2010 Zeitgeist: Social Networking Privacy? IAPP Jennifer L. Saunders Facebook announced its plans for simplified privacy settings, including giving users a single control for their content. 
5/26/2010 Facebook’s Privacy Woes Make Little Impact on Growth (Update1) Bloomberg.com Brian Womack Despite criticism over the way Facebook handles personal information, users are flocking to the world's largest social networking site.
5/25/2010 The Most Powerful Privacy Setting cato-at-liberty.org Jim Harper Choosing not to engage in privacy-degrading activities on the Internet is "the most powerful privacy setting," according to Jim Harper of the Cato Institute. 
5/25/2010 Facebook, Google and Twitter: custodians of our most intimate secrets The Guardian Aditya Chakrabortty  Privacy concerns over access to the content we create on the Internet have taken the focus away from data we put out there for companies to collect, but that is where our primary concerns should be.
5/24/2010 Facebook CEO: 'We've made mistakes' on privacy CNN Laurie Segall When it comes to privacy, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is admitting to making mistakes and promising to fix the problems.
5/24/2010 Internet privacy comes to head; Facebook to change tools, Google accused of wiretapping Washington Post Cecilia Kang In the wake of concerns about how the world's largest social networking site shares user information, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is promising his company will make it simpler for users to control their data on the Internet.
5/22/2010 Legislative aide gets prison in Bonusgate scandal Philadelphia Inquirer Angela Colombis Efforts by the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office to subpoena Twitter to determine whether a former legislative aide was the anonymous writer behind Internet postings about a court case have come under fire from privacy advocates.
5/22/2010 In shoppers' online networks, privacy has no price tag Washington Post Ylan Q. Mui Shoppers are sharing everything from how much they paid for lunch to where they're traveling through purchase-based networking sites Blippy and Swipely, prompting privacy advocates to warn such information could be at risk. 
5/21/2010 Facebook, MySpace Confront Privacy Loophole Wall Street Journal Emily Steel and Jessica E. Vascellaro Facebook, MySpace and other social networking sites have been sharing data with advertising companies, potentially in breach of industry standards and their own privacy policies. 
5/20/2010 Authorities Probe Google Wall Street Journal Harriet Torry and Amir Efrati Google's Sergey Brin said the company he co-founded "screwed up" when it collected personal data sent over wireless networks through its Street View vehicles and would be putting "more internal controls in place to prevent such data captures in the future." 
5/20/2010 In Europe, Google Faces New Inquiries on Privacy New York Times Kevin J. O'Brien The list of authorities planning to investigate Google's collection of data from wireless networks continues to grow.
5/20/2010 How Facebook Is Redefining Privacy TIME Dan Fletcher An extensive look at Facebook and its co-founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, who has come under fire recently for a continued loosening of user privacy defaults. 
5/19/2010 Commerce Department opens a public discussion on private data Federal Computer Week Ben Bain The Department of Commerce (DOC) is actively seeking input from Internet users as part of its recent entry into the complex discussions and debate around federal data privacy legislation.
5/19/2010 Facebook Grapples With Privacy Issues Wall Street Journal Jessica E. Vascellaro The backlash to recent changes by Facebook to make users' profiles more public has resulted in all-hands and closed-door meetings at the company's headquarters.
5/18/2010 MySpace Simplifies Privacy Settings Wall Street Journal Emily Steel MySpace has announced it has created simplified privacy settings for user information.
5/18/2010 Privacy Expert: It's Good PR to Say No to the Government PCWorld Nancy Gohring An Indiana University privacy researcher believes it is good public relations for companies to refuse government requests for data. 
5/18/2010 Facebook to Launch “Simplistic” Privacy Choices Soon Wired Blog Network Ryan Singel Responding to backlash about recent changes to the site's default privacy settings, a Facebook official said the company will roll out new "simplistic" privacy options for its users in the coming weeks.
5/17/2010 Google set for probes on data harvesting Financial Times Joseph Menn Privacy authorities from across the globe may investigate Google following the disclosure that it gathered personal data while using its Street View vehicles in an attempt to collect WiFi addresses for improved service.
5/17/2010 U.K. social media subscribers are limiting their networks: Ofcom Washington Post Cecilia Kang A report released Monday states that British subscribers to social networking sites such as Facebook are limiting those who can see their online profiles to friends and family.
5/17/2010 Tracking Web users without using cookies Cnet News.com Declan McCullagh Deleting those cookies from your Web browser is not enough to protect your privacy online.
5/16/2010 Smart Money: Is Your Favorite Charity Spying on You? Wall Street Journal Anne Kadet Nearly half of all charities now use donor research tools to help focus on those who are most likely to give. 
5/15/2010 Google Data Admission Angers European Officials New York Times Kevin J. O'Brien European officials are reacting angrily to Google's admission that it has been recording private data sent over unencrypted residential wireless networks in countries around the world since 2006.
5/13/2010 A Candidate Shaped in Crucible of Facebook and Privacy Issues New York Times Chase Davis Former Facebook Chief Privacy Officer Chris Kelly's campaign to become California's attorney general "will be a litmus test" for how privacy issues resonate with the public.
5/13/2010 Facebook is being careless with user data, European group says Christian Science Monitor Matthew Shaer Europe's Article 29 Working Party sent a letter to Facebook this week, informing the social networking site that "it is unacceptable that the company fundamentally changed the default settings on its social networking platform to the detriment of a user."