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Date Article Title Publication Author Synopsis
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." 
5/13/2010 Blippy & Swipely Push The Boundaries Of Social Networking Privacy InventorSpot Ron Callari A new social networking site aims to "add value to every swipe" of a customer's credit card purchase by publishing information about what consumers are buying and where.
5/12/2010 Report: Facebook calls all-hands privacy meeting CNET News Chris Matyszczyk Facebook held an all-hands meeting to discuss privacy.
5/12/2010 Teenage Insults, Scrawled on Web, Not on Walls New York Times Tamar Lewin A new social network with more than 28 million users worldwide has become "the online version of the bathroom wall in school." 
5/11/2010 Facebook Executive Answers Reader Questions New York Times New York Times The New York Times invited readers to submit questions for Facebook's vice president for public policy, Elliot Schrage. More than 300 readers responded to the call.
5/11/2010 Four Nerds and a Cry to Arms Against Facebook New York Times Jim Dwyer Four college students are creating a social network that differentiates on privacy, and the funds rolling in to back the project suggest a strong demand for such an offering.
5/8/2010 Tell-All Generation Learns to Keep Things Offline New York Times Laura M. Holson The widely accepted idea that everyone under the age of 30 is comfortable revealing their personal information online may not reflect reality. 
5/7/2010 Secretary Locke Discusses Privacy and Innovation with Leading Internet Stakeholders Department of Commerce   Commerce Secretary Gary Locke offered the opening remarks at today's Privacy and Innovation Symposium, telling privacy advocates and Internet entrepreneurs that collaboration is needed to develop "a privacy framework for the 21st century." 
5/7/2010 DPA Letter Google Jane Horvath and Peter Fleischer Google officials have responded to the 10 data protection authorities who last month expressed disappointment with the company's privacy practices and urged CEO Eric Schmidt to "incorporate fundamental privacy principles directly into the design of new online services" and to set an example "as a leader in the online world." 
5/7/2010 Q&A: Facebook exec defends site's privacy policies Computerworld Sharon Gaudin A Facebook executive is insisting that users are happy with recent changes to the site, despite criticism over recent privacy issues. 
5/7/2010 Library of Congress, Facing Privacy Concerns, Clarifies Twitter Archive Plan Chronicle of Higher Education Marc Parry Faced with privacy concerns, the Library of Congress is clarifying its plans to archive all public tweets posted since Twitter went live in March 2006.
5/6/2010 Facebook Glitch Brings New Privacy Worries New York Times Jenna Wortham A report on a glitch that gave Facebook users access to friends' chats for a few hours.
5/6/2010 Consumer groups hammer Facebook privacy violations in federal complaint Network World John Brodkin The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and 14 other consumer protection groups have filed a formal complaint against Facebook with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleging the social networking service's new policies "violate user expectations, diminish user privacy and contradict Facebook's own representations." 
5/5/2010 Facebook vs. LinkedIn: Which has the better privacy? Computerworld Jay Cline A comparison of privacy features between Facebook and LinkedIn.
5/4/2010 Social network users found to endanger privacy San Francisco Chronicle Benny Evangelista About 52 percent of social networking users post personal information that potentially exposes them to identity theft.
5/3/2010 ALA Launches Choose Privacy Week School Library Journal Lauren Barack Today marks the beginning of Choose Privacy Week, an initiative by the American Library Association (ALA) to raise awareness about sharing information online.
5/3/2010 Facebook’s ex privacy officer blasts its new moves; MySpace adds privacy officer Venture Beat Kim-Mai Cutler Social networking service MySpace has promoted its vice president of business and legal affairs to its newly created chief privacy officer position.
5/3/2010 Is it creepy that Amazon is tracking most-highlighted Kindle passages? Christian Science Monitor Rebekah Denn Amazon can now track and display the book passages users most often highlight on their Kindles, raising concerns about the privacy implications of collecting and storing such information. 
4/28/2010 Facebook careful about privacy guidelines at FTC Washington Post Cecilia Kang In the wake of calls for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to create new online privacy rules and the FTC's announcement that it is developing guidelines on Internet privacy, the world's largest social networking service has indicated support for a framework based on voluntary participation.
4/28/2010 Google Opens Up on What Its ‘Street View’ Cars Collect Wall Street Journal   Google is opening up about the data its Street View cars collect.
4/27/2010 Blippy Snafu Sends Advertising Agencies Warning Online Media Daily Laurie Sullivan An error at purchase-based social networking service Blippy exposed users' credit card information to Internet searches should serve as a warning to advertisers.
4/27/2010 FTC says it is creating Internet privacy framework amid growing concerns Washington Post Cecilia Kang Amid growing concerns from privacy advocates and legislators alike, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said that it plans to create guidelines on Internet privacy to protect consumers from abuse of their personal data by social networking, Internet search and location tracking companies. 
4/27/2010 Four senators ask Facebook to make privacy fixes to new features Los Angeles Times Jessica Guynn Four U.S. Senators yesterday called on Facebook to give its users more control over their personal information.
4/27/2010 Blippy Apologizes, Says It Will Fix Privacy Glitches PC Magazine Chloe Albanesius Social networking site Blippy has apologized for its recent privacy glitch that accidentally exposed members' credit card information and is promising to hire a chief security officer and invest in more security.
4/25/2010 NY Sen. calls for privacy guidelines for websites WCAX.com Associated Press A New York senator wants the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to craft guidelines for how social networking Web sites can use and share their users' personal information.
4/23/2010 Facebook users risk blackmail, privacy czar warns Globe and Mail Jacquie McNish and Omar El Akkad Canada's federal privacy commissioner has expressed concern about changes Facebook made last week that will allow third-party developers to retain users' data indefinitely.
4/22/2010 VeriSign warns of major social networking threat v3.co.uk Phil Muncaster VeriSign says its research arm, iDefense, has identified a data black market player called 'kirllos' who claimed to have for sale 1.5 million social networking accounts in bulk quantities.
4/22/2010 Facebook Looks to Get Personal TIME Dan Fletcher Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg this week shed light on his company's plans to make the Web more social by letting users share personal preferences on external sites across the Internet.
4/22/2010 For Web’s New Wave, Sharing Details Is the Point New York Times Brad Stone The desire of some Internet users to share everything from what plastic surgery they've had to where they are eating and how much they've spent on the newest tech gadgets could have long-reaching ramifications. 
4/21/2010 Commerce Department scrutinizes Internet privacy Network World Ellen Messmer The U.S. Commerce Department wants to know more about how the Internet economy impacts individuals' privacy. 
4/20/2010 Privacy guardians warn multinationals to respect laws Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada   The data protection authorities of 10 nations are expressing disappointment with the privacy practices of Google Inc. and other international corporations.
4/20/2010 10 nations demand Google improve privacy CTV News Associated Press At a press conference in Washington, DC  global privacy officials issued a stern warning to Google Inc. and other Internet companies about their privacy practices. 
4/19/2010 Stanford project aims to gauge online privacy San Francisco Chronicle Alejandro Martinez-Cabrera A Stanford University project has ushered in a Web forum where Internet users can review and compare the privacy and security of Internet and mobile applications.
4/19/2010 Do Young People Care About Privacy Online? Wall Street Journal Jennifer Valentino-DeVries A report on research findings that suggest young people care about privacy to about the same degree as older adults but are less informed about the rules of the road. 
4/16/2010 Study: Young people concerned about privacy San Francisco Chronicle Benny Evangelista Young adults care about online privacy to a similar degree as older adults, according to survey findings.
4/14/2010 In digital world, we trade privacy for convenience CNN Patrick Oppman While many of us may love the simplicity of being able to tap our smartphones or click a computer mouse to find directions, order theatre tickets or make a quick bank transaction, all that convenience comes with a price, the loss of privacy. 
4/13/2010 Adobe Flash Player privacy features may cause headaches for Web merchants Network World Ellen Messmer Adobe Flash Player 10.1 will honor each user's browser privacy setting, which means Flash cookies will no longer be "dropped on computers to track Web activity." 
4/11/2010 News Sites Rethink Anonymous Online Comments New York Times Richard Perez-Pena News sites are rethinking the anonymity option for readers who post comments in response to articles.
4/8/2010 When It Comes to Data, Location Matters E-Commerce News Denise J. Deveau According to an E-Commerce Times report on the growing popularity of cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS), when it comes to data, location matters. 
4/8/2010 Social Media Policies at Work ADVANCE Cheryl  McEvoy When it comes to employees' social networking use, healthcare providers can be in the precarious position of trying to protect not only their image but also patient privacy.
4/7/2010 Microsoft's web privacy push: 'We're the anti-Google' The Register Gavin Clarke The Register explores how companies are using privacy practices as a competitive advantage. 
4/7/2010 Google Sued Over Claims Buzz Service Violated Privacy Rights Business Week Joel Rosenblatt A class action suit filed in federal court alleges Google's Buzz social networking service violated the privacy rights of users of the company's e-mail service when it automatically displayed their contacts to other users.
4/6/2010 Colo man erases Facebook data after threat of suit SeattlePI Associated Press A Colorado entrepreneur has destroyed a database reflecting regional patterns among 210 million Facebook users after the company threatened to sue him for allegedly misusing the social networking site. 
4/5/2010 Unvarnished – Website Sparking Controversy over Professional Privacy San Diego Entertainer Alex Wright A new Web site designed to help employers find out more about job candidates has some concerned about its potential for damaging professional reputations.
4/5/2010 Google Increases Privacy Controls For Buzz Media Post Publications Laurie Sullivan Google has created new privacy controls for its Buzz social networking service.
4/4/2010 RIP digital me: Saying good-bye to Facebook Globe and Mail Jacquie McNish There's a new movement afoot among some social networking users to take back privacy by ending their online lives. 
4/1/2010 The latest Facebook fracas: Your privacy vs. its profit Washington Post Rob Pegoraro The world's most popular social networking site is inviting its 400 million users to comment on its most recent proposed changes, which could include sharing personal information with third-party Web sites. 
3/30/2010 Obama faces major online privacy test CNET News Declan McCullagh During President Barack Obama's campaign in 2008, he pledged to "strengthen privacy protections for the digital age." 
3/28/2010 More Clicks to Escape an E-Mail List New York Times Alex Mindlin A study of 100 large online retailers has shown that five times more are requiring at least three clicks to escape from e-mail marketing lists than in 2008.
3/26/2010 Browser Fingerprints: A Big Privacy Threat PC World Erik Larken A tracking technique that creates sophisticated digital fingerprints of Web users has emerged from the banking sector and seems poised to enter the wider Web. 
3/26/2010 Cloud security weaknesses prompt call for global data protection law Computer Weekly Mark Ballard European leaders are calling for a worldwide agreement on data protection to address data security weaknesses related to cloud computing.
3/26/2010 FTC Should Examine Google Buzz Privacy, Lawmakers Say (Update1) Business Week Todd Shields U.S. lawmakers are calling on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate whether Google's social networking service, Buzz, has compromised users' privacy.
3/25/2010 New Rules for Social Networking Bank Info Security Linda McGlasson The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has issued guidance for financial institutions on how to develop social media policies.
3/24/2010 Facebook facing privacy concerns from European regulators Los Angeles Times Don Reisinger In the wake of announcements that Swiss and German privacy authorities are examining whether the world's largest social networking site is infringing upon personal privacy by allowing its users to post content such as photos and e-mail addresses of other people.
3/23/2010 Should Doctors Google Their Patients? Wall Street Journal Jennifer Valentino-DeVries Three doctors explore the potential benefits and the privacy pitfalls of a practice they call "patient-targeted Googling." 
3/22/2010 Smart Grid Data:  Too Much For Privacy, Not Enough For Innovation? Earth2Tech Jeff St. John The California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) held a three-day hearing last week to explore smart grid policies.
3/21/2010 Patrolling Bad Behavior Media Week Mike Shields The imminence of two bills has online publishers and advertisers concerned.
3/21/2010 Patrolling Bad Behavior Media Week Mike Shields While legislators are promising online marketers that they don't need to worry about a new privacy bill expected to be introduced in the weeks ahead, advertising business leaders are raising concerns about that plan and new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) powers included in a separate bill.
3/19/2010 Where does privacy fit in the online video revolution? The Guardian Victor Keegan The emerging online video revolution begs a new definition of the word privacy.
3/19/2010 Don't Blame Facebook for the Erosion of Online Privacy The Atlantic Derek Thompson The Atlantic responds to recent articles about the loss of privacy in the online environment, saying "Don't blame Facebook" for its erosion. 
3/18/2010 Are Social Media Privacy Issues Less of a Problem for Teens? Fast Company Addy Dugdale When it comes to privacy issues and social networking, a Fast Company report suggests the real question is whether the next generation is concerned at all about online security. 
3/17/2010 Google Buzz Exemplifies Privacy Problems, FTC Commissioner Says Wall Street Journal Emily Steel FTC Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour said technology companies are setting a dangerous precedent of publicly exposing consumer data during new product rollout.
3/16/2010 How Privacy Vanishes Online New York Times Steve Lohr Even if you decide not to share your personal information online, your friends and colleagues may be doing it for you.
3/16/2010 Break the law and your new 'friend' may be the FBI Associated Press Richard Lardner U.S. law enforcement officials are regular visitors to social networking sites, so that new "friend request" you received might just be from an undercover agent. 
3/15/2010 FCC Broadband Plan Focuses on Privacy, Competition Online Media Daily Wendy Davis The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released the executive summary of its national broadband plan. 
3/15/2010 Is Internet privacy dead? No, just more complicated: researchers Washington Post Cecilia Kang Internet users may love to share their stories via social media, but they also care about their privacy.
3/13/2010 Privacy concerns hinder 'real-time Web' creation, developers say CNN Doug Gross Before the Web can begin providing information to users in real time, Internet professionals need to figure out how to protect personal privacy.
3/12/2010 FTC’s Privacy Worries Prompt Netflix to Cancel Contest Wall Street Journal Jennifer Valentino-DeVries Netflix has canceled plans to carry out the sequel of a contest that has elicited a lawsuit and attention from the Federal Trade Commission.
3/12/2010 Why no one cares about privacy anymore Cnet News Declan McCullagh In an analysis that contradicts much of the current debate about data privacy, CNET's Declan McCullagh offers a lengthy argument on how changing norms have led to reduced outrage about moves that advocates would typically consider privacy violations. 
3/11/2010 FTC looks at the impact of cloud computing Federal News Radio   Federal News Radio talks to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) attorney Kathryn Ratté about the commission's examination of cloud computing. 
3/10/2010 EFF Questions Tighter Privacy Rules For Sensitive Data Daily Online Examiner Wendy Davis The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) casts doubt about the sensibility of crafting different privacy rules for sensitive information.
3/10/2010 Schneier:  Fight for privacy or kiss it good-bye Network World Tim Greene Security expert Bruce Schneier believes that when it comes to the future of online privacy, the public needs to fight for better laws protecting personal information. 
3/9/2010 High School Reunion Ruin: Classmates.com Sued Over Opt-Out Privacy Setting Change Online Media Daily Wendy Davis Two members of Classmates.com have filed suit in federal court alleging the social networking site violated their privacy by revising its default settings to make members' information more accessible on the Internet.
3/9/2010 Facebook Will Allow Users to Share Location New York Times Nick Bilton The world's largest social networking site will soon make it easier for users to share their location data with friends.
3/4/2010 Feds weigh expansion of Internet monitoring CNET News Declan McCullagh Department of Homeland Security discussions about extending use of its Einstein technology for detecting and preventing electronic attacks on federal networks into the private sector is raising privacy concerns.
3/2/2010 Faculty on Facebook: Privacy concerns raised by suspension USA Today Jack Stripling A college professor has been placed on administrative leave for statements she posted to her Facebook profile.
3/1/2010 Science fiction turns fact as 'internet of things' draws closer The Guardian Bobbie Johnson A new McKinsey consultancy report suggests that the "Internet of things" is closer than ever to becoming a reality.
2/27/2010 Redrawing the Route to Online Privacy New York Times Steve Lohr The march of technology has rendered inadequate the notice-and-choice model for protecting privacy on the Internet.
2/26/2010 When American and European Ideas of Privacy Collide New York Times Adam Liptak The fundamental differences between American and European attitudes toward privacy.
2/25/2010 The Data Deluge The Economist Brett Ryder It is expected that in 2010, mankind will create 150 exabytes (billion gigabytes) of data. 
2/17/2010 Google’s Buzz Draws Scrutiny From Privacy Watchdogs  Bloomberg.com Lorraine Woellert The fallout continues from the launch of Google's new social networking feature, Buzz. 
2/14/2010 Anger Leads to Apology From Google About Buzz New York Times Miguel Helft Google has announced changes to improve user privacy on its new social network, Buzz.
2/11/2010 Teaching computers how to forget ARS Technica Nate Anderson When it comes to our online lives, "Cheap storage has been a boon in many ways, but can it also be a nightmare?" 
2/10/2010 Google adds Google Buzz: Location-aware social networking Washington Post Rob Pegoraro A new social networking service that combines many of the features already used in some popular sites with location-mapping technology could pose new privacy challenges.
2/9/2010 Some ditch social networks to reclaim time, privacy USA Today Marco R della Cava Concern over access to personal messages and photos is one of the reasons some former social networking fans are putting an end to their online lives.
2/5/2010 Facebook’s Privacy Changes Being Watched by European Commission News Week Matthew Newman The EU's telecommunications commissioner says if Facebook and other social networking sites don't change their privacy policies, they could face regulation.
2/5/2010 FBI wants records kept of Web sites visited CNET News Declan McCullagh At the Online Safety and Technology Working Group meeting in Washington, DC, an attorney from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said that FBI Director Robert Mueller supports the storing of Internet users' "origin and destination information," and that the bureau is asking Internet service providers to begin keeping logs.
2/4/2010 Save your life ... digitise The Times Mike Harvey Two computing pioneers are recording every aspect of their lives digitally, prompting questions about the potential dangers these "lifelogs" pose to personal privacy.
2/3/2010 Facebook comes out swinging at critics of settlement offer in Beacon lawsuit Computerworld Jaikumar Vijayan Critics are calling Facebook's settlement offer in a privacy lawsuit involving its Beacon behavioral tracking service "meaningless" while the company contends it is fair and adequate.
2/3/2010 Police want backdoor to Web users' private data CNETNews.com Declan McCullagh Cybercrime investigators are advocating the creation of a national Web interface to link police computers to Internet and e-mail providers across the nation.
2/3/2010 Researcher warns of risks from rogue iPhone apps CNETNews.com Elinor Mills A Swiss researcher is warning users of a popular smartphone that insufficient security and a design flaw could put their personal data at risk.
2/2/2010 Mozilla weighs privacy warnings for Web pages CNETNews.com Declan McCullagh In an effort to help users decipher the often incomprehensible language of Web site privacy policies, CNET News reports that the organization behind the popular browser Firefox is in the process of creating brightly colored, easy-to-recognize icons to alert Internet users to how intrusive or privacy-friendly specific sites are. 
2/2/2010 Facebook viewed as riskiest social network by companies USA Today Byron Acohido A survey of 500 companies worldwide by the security firm Sophos has found that 60 percent consider Facebook to be the riskiest social-networking site.
2/1/2010 In Europe, Challenges for Google New York Times Eric Phanner Google's recent troubles with China may prove to be less problematic than those the company will face in Europe.
2/1/2010 1 in 3 users reviewed Facebook privacy roll-back The Register John Leyden Approximately one in every three Facebook users customized their settings when the site rolled back its privacy shields in December and notified users to review what they share online.
2/1/2010 A Twitter-like Site Showing How You Spend Money TIME  Barbara Kiviat In the era of sharing, along comes a platform for broadcasting credit card holders' purchases. 
1/29/2010 EFF Shows How Web Companies Can Track Cookie-Deleters Online Media Daily Wendy Davis Cookies are just one example of the tools Web publishers can use to harvest a bounty of identifying information.
1/29/2010 All eyes on online privacy San Francisco Chronicle James Temple At the Federal Trade Commission's second public discussion about online privacy in Berkeley, California, panelists discussed the ways that digital-era technologies impact individuals' privacy and what can be done about it.
1/28/2010 Don't Google away your privacy rights San Francisco Chronicle John M. Simpson A consumer advocate says the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) should key in on "what business online companies are really in." 
1/28/2010 Flash Of Criticism At FTC Privacy Roundtable  Daily Online Examiner Wendy Davis At the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) privacy roundtable, held at the UC Berkeley School of Law, interactive advertising and the use of "Flash cookies" in particular, came under harsh scrutiny by consumer protection chief David Vladeck.
1/27/2010 Privacy pioneer search engine launches anonymous surfing service Out-law.com   Ixquick, the company that earned the respect of privacy advocates when it decided in 2006 to stop collecting IP data from users of its search tool, is again drawing praise for its planned release of a new proxy browsing service that the company says will allow users to visit Web pages without the site owner's knowledge.
1/27/2010 Microsoft Finds Indiscreet Sharing Costs Jobs Information Week Thomas Claburn Posting indiscreet information online can prevent Internet users from getting jobs, while positive "online reputations" can have the opposite effect.
1/25/2010 The Privacy Factor CBS News Daniel Sieberg Daniel Sieberg offers commentary on the attraction of seeking instant feedback and approval through the Internet's broad reach, describing the process as trading privacy for ego. 
1/25/2010 Too much info on social media aids ID thieves San Francisco Chronicle Benny Evangelista A recent study indicates that more than half of those ages 45 and older who use popular social networking sites could fall prey to identity thieves because they share too much information.
1/24/2010 FCC Urged To Steer Clear Of Online Privacy Issues  Online Media Daily Wendy Davis The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has called on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to take a hands-off approach to the broadband privacy debate, saying that the commission risks creating confusion by introducing restrictions and potentially conflicting privacy regulations that could hamper commercial activity online. 
1/20/2010 Ad Groups Warn of FTC Power Threat ClickZ.com Kate Kaye A coalition of 29 advertising industry trade groups has expressed concern that the Federal Trade Commission could become too powerful.
1/20/2010 If Your Password Is 123456, Just Make It HackMe New York Times Ashlee Vance Last month's theft of 32 million passwords from a social networking software company has given researchers a unique window into just how insecure many security passwords may be.
1/19/2010 Microsoft Puts a Time Limit on Bing Data New York Times Kevin J. O'Brien Microsoft has announced that it will further reduce the length of time it holds data entered into its Bing search engine.
1/19/2010 FTC Probes Facebook's EPIC Privacy Fail Online Media Daily Wendy Davis A letter of complaint sent by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has received the attention of consumer protection chief David Vladeck, who responded recently by saying that EPIC's letter "raises issues of particular interest for us at this time." 
1/13/2010 FCC Seeks Public Comments On Online Privacy Daily Online Examiner Wendy Davis The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is seeking public comments about online privacy.
1/13/2010 Privacy is dead on Facebook. Get over it. MSNBC Helen A.S. Popkin An anonymous former Facebook employee has said that employees of the social networking company routinely used a "general password" to access subscriber accounts, and that two employees were fired because of the snooping.
1/13/2010 Social Marketing Gone Awry: Pepsi Refresh Needs To Refresh Its Security Settings Washington Post Erick Schonfeld Rather than invest in a Super Bowl advertising campaign, Pepsi instead has invested $20 million in a social networking marketing strategy called Pepsi Refresh that, within hours of its launch, faced serious technical and privacy concerns.
1/13/2010 Social Networking: Your Key to Easy Credit? CNBC Erica Sandberg Some organizations have taken to analyzing consumer chatter over popular social networking channels such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn as part of their credit evaluation process. 
1/11/2010 Zuckerberg Comments Underscore Conflict Between Social Networking and Privacy PC World Tony Bradley Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg recently told TechCrunch that a desire for privacy is no longer the "social norm." 
1/8/2010 Alliance Issues New Guidelines for Cloud Security Industry Week Peter Alpern In an effort to help establish clarity, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has issued a paper that it hopes will help to ecreate greater standardization around what cloud computing is.
1/7/2010 How Tech Will Change Our Future Forbes.com Quentin Hardy Quentin Hardy opines that the evolution of technology was a primary influencing factor in the decade just concluded, and that in the future the impact of technology will bring about radical change in everything from the global economy to national identities to privacy. 
1/7/2010 Facebook, Twitter becoming business tools, but CIOs remain wary Network World Jon Brodkin With an increasing number of employees and companies engaging professionally on social networking utilities such as Facebook and Twitter, CIOs remain wary of the potential impact on information security.
1/5/2010 Rogue Marketers Can Mine Your Info on Facebook Wired Blog Network Ryan Singel The recent changes to Facebook's privacy settings may have opened a door allowing "rogue marketers" to harvest e-mail addresses and profile data from subscribers.
1/4/2010 Facebook Plays Privacy Card Against Seppukoo, Suicide Machine Daily Online Examiner Wendy Davis Services that help social networkers expunge their accounts have come under the scrutiny of Facebook.
1/4/2010 FTC set to examine cloud computing The Hill Kim Hart The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is investigating the privacy and security implications of cloud computing.
12/25/2009 FTC chief Leibowitz now watches over firms he once lobbied for Washington Post Cecilia Kang A look at Jon Leibowitz's tenure as chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. 
12/20/2009 Facebook Privacy: Just How Much Do Users Want? eweek.com Brian Prince A report on Facebook's recent privacy changes and the ensuing complaint filed with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. 
12/17/2009 Privacy Group Files Complaint on Facebook Changes New York Times Brad Stone The Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center has asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate recent changes Facebook made to its privacy settings.
12/17/2009 Privacy policy clause is not justification for revealing anonymous poster's identity, US court rules Out-law.com   A blogger will remain anonymous thanks to a district court's determination that a two-sentence statement in a privacy policy is not sufficient justification for revealing the individual's identity.
12/17/2009 Netflix Spilled Your Brokeback Mountain Secret, Lawsuit Claims Wired Blog Network Ryan Singel An in-the-closet lesbian mother says Netflix outed her by disclosing insufficiently anonymized datasets as part of a contest to improve its film recommendation system.
12/16/2009 Keeping co-workers, bosses away from your Facebook page a delicate matter Winnipeg Free Press Steve Lambert Navigating the workplace in this era of social networking sometimes requires skills not typically found on a résumé. 
12/16/2009 IAB And AAAA Update Contract Guidelines, Specify Who Owns Data Online Media Daily Wendy Davis The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and Association of American Advertising Agencies (AAAA) have updated a model contract for online media buys that that would limit advertisers' and publishers' ability to use data "owned" by one or the other.
12/15/2009 Internet service blocked over privacy fears New Zealand Herald Jeremy Laurence Google has blocked part of a service it launched last week due to privacy concerns.
12/13/2009 Magid: Facebook's new policy makes users think about privacy Mercury News Larry Magid Facebook's controversial privacy policy change has come under heavy criticism from subscribers and privacy advocates since the initiative was launched last week. 
12/10/2009 Facebook's Privacy Changes Draw More Scrutiny New York Times Brad Stone With more time to digest the changes Facebook has made to its security and privacy controls, more voices are speaking out against the changes. 
12/9/2009 Facebook users speak out against new privacy settings Network World Jon Brodkin Facebook subscribers are once again expressing outrage over the social networking site's new privacy rules, claiming that the changes are exposing elements of their accounts that had previously been blocked. 
12/9/2009 Google boss dismisses privacy concerns SC Magazine Iain Thomson A report on a CNBC interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
12/8/2009 Facebook Halts Beacon, Gives $9.5M to Settle Lawsuit PC World Jon Brodkin A lawsuit filed following the launch of Facebook's Beacon advertising platform has been settled for $9.5 million and an agreement to scuttle the controversial initiative.
12/7/2009 FTC Takes On Online Privacy Wall Street Journal Amy Schatz The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) yesterday launched a series of meetings about online privacy at a daylong roundtable in Washington, DC.
12/7/2009 Next privacy threats: Health, Smartgrid data The Hill Kim Hart Online health records and the smart grid came up as online privacy hot topics at yesterday's Federal Trade Commission roundtable on privacy.
12/1/2009 Badvertising: Stop the 5 Biggest Threats to Online Privacy Fast Company Lucas Conley Fast Company spoke with two advocates about the biggest threats to online privacy. Ari Schwartz of the Center for Democracy and Technology and Jules Polonetsky, CIPP, of the Future of Privacy Forum discuss what they feel are the top five in this article.
12/1/2009 Facebook To Roll Out New Privacy Controls To Its 350 Million Users, Kills Regional Networks Washington Post Jason Kincaid Facebook will roll out new privacy controls. 
11/24/2009 Ad Industry Works on Ads About Ads Wall Street Journal Emily Steel A report on the ad industry's efforts to stave off regulation. "
11/24/2009 The Google-TiVo Deal: What It Means For You PC World JC Raphael Google and TiVo have teamed up to arm advertisers with clickstream data.
11/17/2009 Online Privacy Watchdogs Hammer Away on Capitol Hill ClickZ.com Kate Kaye At a briefing, representatives from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Center for Digital Democracy, American Civil Liberties Union and other organizations brought congressional staffers up to speed on personal data collection methods. 
11/16/2009 Google Books Settlement Still Poses Privacy Problems Online Media Daily Wendy Davis Google filed a revised settlement on its digital books project. 
11/12/2009 Two German Killers Demanding Anonymity Sue Wikipedia’s Parent New York Times John Schwartz A lawyer for two convicted killers in Germany is suing the Wikipedia Foundation to have his clients' names removed from a Wikipedia entry that mentions them.
11/11/2009 How Dumping IP Logs Helped News Site Preserve Readers' Privacy Daily Online Examiner Wendy Davis A report on the U.S. government's attempt to obtain the IP addresses of visitors to a left-wing news site and how the site's lack of IP log data spoiled its plans. 
11/10/2009 Google Dashboard Changes Our Thinking About Privacy Advertising Age Judy Shapiro In the history of privacy, everything old is new again--only better. 
11/9/2009 NY's Cuomo settles with Tagged.com over emails Reuters   New York's attorney general said this week that the operator of Tagged.com will pay a half million dollars and will revamp its practices to settle charges that it deceived members into giving up personal details in order to send spam e-mails.
11/6/2009 Google trying not to cross 'the creepy line' Cnet News Tom Krazit Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Fox Business that the company is trying not to cross the "creepy line" in terms of information gathering. 
11/5/2009 Google Creates Privacy Dashboard Wall Street Journal Jessica E. Vascellaro Google announced that it has created a Web site where users can view the data Google stores on them and make privacy adjustments.
11/5/2009 Microsoft raises cloud computing concerns Google Glenn Chapman In a paper released at the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners in Madrid, Microsoft outlines privacy concerns associated with cloud computing.
11/5/2009 Texas Woman Sues Facebook for Privacy Violations Fox News   A Texas woman has filed lawsuits alleging privacy violations because her Facebook account automatically displayed the titles of the movies she rented from Blockbuster. 
10/29/2009 Facebook spells out updated privacy policy CNET News.com Caroline McCarthy Facebook has revised its privacy policy to enhance understanding on what happens to users' information after they have deleted or deactivated an account.
10/27/2009 Is Your Facebook Profile As Private As You Think? National Public Radio Martin Kaste In part two of a series on data privacy, National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" program looks at privacy concerns related to social networking. 
10/26/2009 Online Data Present A Privacy Minefield National Public Radio Martin Kaste Is privacy still possible? That is what National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" program asks in the first story of a four-part series examining the topic of data privacy. 
10/22/2009 To protect your privacy, hand over your data New Scientist Vijaysree Venkatraman A Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher says it's time for people to get a stake in their own data mines and proposes a brave new approach for controlling digital identities.
10/15/2009 The ethics of “Googling someone” IAPP Christopher Wolf Christopher Wolf of Hogan & Hartson LLP and the Future of Privacy Forum explores the role of ethics in the online world and their impact on privacy.
10/9/2009 Web Privacy for the Dead Wall Street Journal Jonnelle Marte In a Digits blog, the Wall Street Journal reports on Web services that help people manage their affairs postmortem.
10/6/2009 Major Webmail Systems Targeted by Phishing PC Magazine Larry Seltzer The compromise of tens of thousands of Hotmail credentials last week has been identified as the fruits of a phishing scheme that duped the holders of those accounts into providing the information under false pretenses. 
9/29/2009 Defense to allow troops, family members to use social network sites NextGov Bob Brewin The Defense Department (DoD) will soon release a memo backing troops' use of social media for official and unofficial purposes.
9/25/2009 The Smart Grid Is Not Just for Geeks Anymore New York Times Jenny Mandel The subject of privacy came up at a conference in Washington, DC, where government and industry players discussed high-level issues associated with the smart grid.
9/22/2009 Privacy advocates hail Facebooks' plan to shutter Beacon Computerworld Jaikumar Vijayan Privacy advocates are happy about a proposed settlement to a class-action lawsuit against Facebook.
9/22/2009 New "Irresponsible" Netflix Contest May Violate Customer Privacy PC World David Coursey Netflix wants to find ever-better ways to predict customers' movie preferences. 
9/21/2009 Facebook retires once-embarrassing Beacon Advertising System Los Angeles Times David Sarno Facebook will shutter its Beacon advertising system.
9/20/2009 Project 'Gaydar': An MIT experiment raises new questions about online privacy Boston Globe Carolyn Johnson Two students explored the revelations Facebook users make based on the "friends" they keep.
9/19/2009 Facebook settles privacy suit, to shut down Beacon Silicon Valey/San Jose Business Journal   Facebook has settled a class-action lawsuit related to its Beacon service.
9/19/2009 Cybersecurity Plan Doesn't Breach Employee Privacy, Administration Says Washington Post Ellen Nakashima A Justice Department memo deems the Einstein 2 government surveillance program lawful.
9/16/2009 FTC to Hold Privacy Roundtables Wall Street Journal Andrew LaVallee The Federal Trade Commission wants public input on technology and consumer privacy. 
9/15/2009 White House unveils cloud computing initiative CNET News.com Daniel Terdiman Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra announced the government's long-term cloud computing plans. 
9/15/2009 Internet Users Will Exchange Privacy For Security Security Pro News Mike Sachoff A Ponemon Institute report shows that when it comes to online transactions, Web users will exchange some privacy for enhanced security.
9/14/2009 Facebook fights Virginia's demand for user data, photos CNET News.com Declan McCullagh The state of Virginia has backed off of demands for Facebook to release the contents of a user's account to help settle a workers' compensation case.
9/10/2009 Sears Required to Destroy Tracking Data Online Media Daily Wendy Davis The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) this week gave final approval on a settlement with Sears Holdings Corp on allegations it collected personal data from customers without adequate disclosures.
9/8/2009 "Anonymized" data really isn't - and here's why not ARS Technica Nate Anderson Nate Anderson discusses the limits of anonymization and outlines a new report on "the surprising failure of anonymization." 
9/8/2009 Google Book Plan Hits Privacy Snag Wired Blog Network David Kravets Copyright concerns about the proposed Google books settlement have so far overshadowed privacy concerns, but an eleventh-hour filing in a New York federal court focused on privacy. 
9/3/2009 Google adds details to Book Search privacy policy CNET News.com Tom Krazit In the wake of criticism and following discussions with the Federal Trade Commission, Google has announced a new privacy policy to address concerns over potential use and disclosure of consumer information related to digital book searches. 
8/27/2009 Is 'Friending' in Your Future? Better Pay Your Taxes First Wall Street Journal Laura Saunders State revenue agents are finding social networking sites a convenient means of tracking down those who owe taxes.
8/26/2009 Social networking users fail to change their passwords or adjust their privacy settings, as they are more vulnerable than ever SC Magazine Staff SC Magazine reports on the results of a study revealing that, despite their concerns about privacy and security, those who use social networking sites are not taking basic measures to protect themselves. 
8/24/2009 The Government and the Web New York Times   A New York Times editorial discusses the White House proposal to partially lift a ban on federal agencies' use of Internet cookies--tracking technology that can help personalize Web users' experiences, but can also pose risks to privacy. 
8/24/2009 Blogger sues Google for revealing identity  PC Advisor Carrie Ann Skinner An anonymous blogger whose identity Google released last week per order of the New York State Supreme Court has filed a lawsuit against the company.
8/20/2009 "Skank case" precedent worries privacy groups San Francisco Chronicle James Temple Online privacy groups are reacting to this week's New York State Supreme Court ruling that resulted in the "outing" of a blogger who made unfavorable comments about a Canadian model on the Google-owned site Blogger.com. 
8/20/2009 Tweets Will Soon Come With a Dateline New York Times Claire Cain Miller The New York Times reports that Twitter will soon begin including location information within the tweets of users who have activated the new feature.
8/20/2009 More Employers Use Social Networks to Check Out Applicants New York Times Jenna Wortham Forty-five percent of employers polled for a Harris Interactive study said they use social networking sites to help vet prospective employees.
8/19/2009 Model Fights Anonymous Blogger in Court and Wins ABC News Rich McHugh and Noel Hartman Google was forced to disclose the identity of a blogger after a New York State Supreme Court Justice decided a person tormented by the posts had a right to know it.
8/18/2009 California users file civil suit against Facebook Associated Press   Five Facebook users have filed a civil suit against the company for alleged privacy violations.
8/16/2009 How you can self-destruct your messages TimesOnline Roxana Geambasu and Professor Hank Levy A report on the e-mail self-destruct software developed by researchers at Washington University in Seattle. 
8/16/2009 Online, your private life is searchable Los Angeles Times David Sarno The Los Angeles Times reports on the proliferation of personal information across the Web's so-called "snooper" sites--sites that assemble data from other Internet addresses to create "digital portraits" of Netizens. 
8/12/2009 Google deal with publishers raises privacy concerns: NPR National Public Radio   National Public Radio reports on the privacy concerns associated with Google's plan to create a massive digital library. 
8/11/2009 Facebook tweaks its terms to address ads, privacy CNET News.com Josh Lowensohn Facebook last week tweaked its terms of service to clarify its 'share to everyone' feature and to provide clearer language on what kind of user information third-party applications get access to.
8/11/2009 Top websites using Flash cookies to track user behavior SC Magazine Angela Moscaritolo UC Berkeley researchers unveiled the findings of a study into companies' use of Flash cookies that regenerate even after a Web user has deleted his or her browser's cookies.
8/11/2009 Privacy Plan for Federal Web Sites Gets Mixed Reviews New York Times Miguel Helft The comment period is over and now federal CIO Vivek Kundra and OMB official Michael Fitzpatrick will continue revising a policy on federal agencies' use of cookies. 
8/11/2009 Data has become too distributed to secure, Forrester says SearchSecurity.com Robert Westervelt Forrester says that data today is too distributed to be protected at yesterday's levels.
8/11/2009 Facebook, Twitter skills now wanted in workplace Chronicle Herald Alyse Knorr Social media-savvy individuals have a better chance of landing certain jobs.
8/11/2009 Obama Web-Tracking Proposal Raises Privacy Concerns Washington Post Spencer Hsu and Cecilia Kang The White House wants to partially lift a longtime ban on federal agencies' use of Internet cookies--bits of code that let sites track users' movements. 
8/5/2009 An Interview With David Vladeck of the FTC New York Times The Editors FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection (BCP) chief David Vladeck sat down with the New York Times this week to discuss his views on privacy and his vision for the BCP. 
8/5/2009 White House Revisits Government Web-Privacy Policies New York Times Riva Richmond The deadline to weigh in on a proposed update to the government's Web-privacy policies is approaching.
8/5/2009 Facebook Tightens Ad Guidelines internet.com Michelle Megna Facebook moved to enhance user privacy this week by curtailing the potential for behavioral ad targeting.
8/5/2009 EFF: Technology Can Help in Absence of Privacy Laws PC World Nancy Gohring Technology is needed to protect digital citizens in ways the law is not protecting them.
8/2/2009 Hackers expose weakness invisiting trusted sites Associated Press Jordan Robertson Two separate presentations during last week's Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas demonstrated a weakness in Web browser security that could give hackers the ability to intercept transactions between individuals and trusted Web sites.
7/31/2009 Does Microsoft + Yahoo = A Privacy Arms Race Among Web Giants? New York Times Riva Richmond While some privacy advocates worry over the negative privacy implications of a pending search advertising deal between Microsoft and Yahoo, the Future of Privacy Forum thinks the pact may have the effect of re-igniting a battle of one-upsmanship between Microsoft-Yahoo and search ad powerhouse Google. 
7/30/2009 MI5 website breached by hacker ZDNET.co.uk Tom Espiner The Internet home for British spy agency MI5 was the target of a cross-scripting hack this week that could have re-directed visitors to Web sites infected with malicious code. 
7/30/2009 Why Cloud Computing Needs More Chaos Forbes.com Andy Greenberg Like ribs at a Texas barbeque, the cloud computing debate got kicked up a notch recently, with points, counterpoints, and echos from all sides. 
7/29/2009 Lawmaker urges regulations for file-sharing Reuters John Poirier Congressman Edolphus Towns (D-NY) said yesterday that it may be time for Congress to regulate file sharing services.
7/28/2009 Google defends Google Apps security Computer World Jaikumar Vijayan Despite the hullabaloo when it emerged earlier this month that the city of Los Angeles might move its applications to Google Apps, city officials are pressing on with migration plans.
7/27/2009 More Pressure Brought On Google To Protect Readers' Privacy Online Media Daily Wendy Davis More advocacy groups have joined the chorus calling for a privacy commitment from Google for its new digital books program.
7/24/2009 White House Asks Public If It Wants Cookies Online Media Daily Wendy Davis The White House wants public input on its use of persistent cookies.
7/24/2009 Can Privacy and Consumer Protection Coexist Online? PC World Grant Gross A new report by Emory University professor and Technology Policy Institute (TPI) fellow Paul Rubin is skeptical of a law that would impose stricter regulations on the data collection and monitoring activities of behavioral advertisers.
7/23/2009 Advocates Ask Google for Privacy Guarantees in Online Library New York Times Mighel Helft The Electronic Frontier Foundation, American Civil Liberties Union, and the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley have requested that Google commit to a number of measures meant to protect the privacy of users of the company's book search service. 
7/22/2009 Feds may come up with cloud security standards Network World Tim Greene In the absence of third-party security certification programs for cloud computing providers, the federal government may set its own standards for using cloud services.
7/22/2009 A Microsoft, Yahoo Deal Won't Get a Free Pass from Privacy Watchdogs eweek.com Clint Boulton While tech giants Microsoft and Yahoo finalize a search and advertising partnership, privacy advocates wait in the wings, poised to urge government action against what some perceive as serious privacy concerns. 
7/21/2009 Study finds widespread privacy failings in online social networks physorg.com   A new Cambridge University study of 45 online social networking sites has documented widespread privacy abuse, ranging from deceptive policies, needless data collection, failure to use encryption and third-party data sharing. 
7/20/2009 Self-Destructing E-documents New York Times John Markoff Computer scientists at the University of Washington have developed software that lets digital data "self-destruct." 
7/19/2009 Privacy Concerns Over the Cloud in LA Online Media Daily Wendy Davis A privacy group wants the city of Los Angeles to conduct a privacy risk assessment before moving forward with potential plans to use cloud computing services for city business.
7/19/2009 Lost in the Cloud New York Times Jonathan Zittrain In this op-ed for the New York Times, author and Harvard law professor Jonathan Zittrain warns that cloud computing "comes with real dangers." 
7/16/2009 LA's computer overhaul opens privacy debate Associated Press Michael R. Blood The city of Los Angeles is considering dumping its internal computer network in favor of using Internet-based programs from Google.
7/15/2009 Twitter Hack Raises Flags on Security of Web Tools New York Times Claire Cain Miller A hacker accessed financial documents, personal e-mail accounts and other sensitive information after figuring out the password of a Twitter employee's e-mail account.
7/11/2009 Social-networking site Tagged accused of massive invasion of privacy traffic Mercury News Steve Johnson & John Boudreau Authorities in New York have accused Tagged.com, a social networking site, of invading the privacy of millions.
7/8/2009 Cloud Computing Brings New Legal Challenges New York Law Journal Shari Claire Lewis Shari Claire Lewis of Rivkin Radler discusses legal challenges posed by cloud computing in the New York Law Journal. 
7/8/2009 Google's New OS Raises Privacy, Antitrust Concerns PCWorld Grant Gross Google's announcement that it will release an operating system for netbooks next year has generated wide interest. 
7/7/2009 Eric Schmidt: Interview transcript American Public Media Kai Ryssdal Google announced that it is designing a new operating system based on the company's Chrome Web browser. 
6/16/2009 Google considers request to boost privacy CNET News.com Elinor Mills Google said that it might increase data protection for Google apps users.
6/11/2009 Social Networks Keep Privacy in the Closet Technology Review Erica Naone Two University of Cambridge professors have completed a research project on social networks' privacy settings and policies.
6/10/2009 McAfee launches software that monitors Facebook itbusiness.ca Jennifer Kavur McAfee Inc.'s Canadian General Manager Ross Allen teamed up with Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian to release McAfee's new Family Protection software.
6/4/2009 Sears settles with FTC in privacy flap Reuters Diane Bartz The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has reached a settlement with Sears Holdings Corp on allegations it collected personal data from customers without adequate disclosures, Reuters reports. 
6/4/2009 FTC Shuts Down Spammer ISP Wall Street Journal Andrew LaVallee The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has shut down an Internet service provider that engaged in spam and virus distribution and child pornography.
6/2/2009 The Obama Administration's Silence on Privacy New York Times Saul Hansell President Obama announced that the new White House cybersecurity office will include a privacy officer, but despite this and early leadership on technology issues, the administration has divulged little about privacy so far. 
6/2/2009 Google Is Top Tracker of Surfers in Study New York Times Miguel Helft University of California, Berkeley graduate students released the results of a study comparing consumer expectations for online privacy with Internet companies' data collection practices.
6/2/2009 It's 6 O'Clock -- Do You Know Where Your Cloud's Data Center Is? Information Week Charles Babcock RSA Chief Security Strategist Tim Mather discussed cloud computing security on a panel at the Sun CommunityOne conference in San Francisco.
5/28/2009 Government Wrestles With Social Media Records Retention Policies Information Week J. Nicholas Hoover Speakers at a National Archives and Records Administration conference yesterday highlighted challenges the government must address to follow archival and e-discovery regulations in the age of social media, inexpensive storage and cloud computing.
5/26/2009 Obama set to Create a Cybersecurity Czar With Broad Mandate Washington Post Ellen Nakashima President Obama is expected to announce the creation of a national cybersecurity adviser later this week.
5/22/2009 Google's Camera Car Cruises New York for Street View Update New York Times Noam Cohen and Corey Kilgannon Anyone using Google's Street View feature to check out what's playing at New York movie theaters might think the city's cinemaphiles are woefully passé; a Street View image of an East 12th Street marquee shows a 2006 film "now playing." 
5/21/2009 Privacy and the net Guardian.co.uk Henry Porter Henry Porter blogs on the results of a study released yesterday by University of Cambridge researchers, who discovered that Web sites that host user-uploaded photos commonly store those photos even after users deleted them. 
5/20/2009 Swedish anti-piracy and privacy laws clash' The Local   A proposed amendment to an anti-piracy law would require Swedish Internet service providers (ISPs) to save user traffic data for a minimum of six months to aid in the investigation of serious crimes.
5/19/2009 Google: Ditching data could hinder flu tracking TimesOnline Dan Sabbagh At Google's Zeitgeist conference in Great Britain this week, company co-founder Larry Page said more discussion with regulators is needed regarding proposed data retention limits.
5/16/2009 Just Shopping?  A Web Store May Follow You Out the Door New York Times Randall Stross The e-mail addresses and phone numbers offered up by online shoppers could soon be used for more than just order confirmations. 
5/12/2009 Report Recommends Standards for Use of Analytics Tools on Government Web Sites Center for Democracy and Technology Press Release While the Obama administration works to create a more open government, two advocacy groups are cautioning that the analytics tools used to help in that effort should be used with care. 
4/30/2009 Facebook's privacy options ComputerWorld Jake Wildman Jake Widman has some advice for Facebook users who want to maintain control of their information. 
4/28/2009 Jenkins: Plan for the worst when using clouds  Chattanooga Times Free Press Donnie Jenkins Google, Microsoft and other companies are trying to get a foothold by providing more services that can be used on a Web browser.
4/28/2009 McAfee Launches Cybercrime Self-help Site  PC World Erik Larken Antivirus software maker McAfee launched a new Web site intended to provide advice and services to those who suspect they may be victims of cybercrime.
4/27/2009 How secure is the cloud? SearchSecurity.com Andrew Collins Recent incidents of data leaking from cloud-based applications have given many organisations pause when it comes to launching their own information into the ether. What are the vendors doing to secure your data?
4/27/2009 Cyberwar's first casualty: Your privacy ComputerWorld Preston Gralla The government will most likely let private industry do the dirty work, essentially outsourcing cyber intelligence gathering.
4/27/2009 Cloud computing security: Who knew? NW via Computerworld Scott Bradner Cloud computing is big even though there is less than perfect agreement on just what it is.
4/27/2009 Congress: Privacy Fears Over Cable Ads NewsFactor Network Deborah Yao As part of a broader discussion over Internet privacy issues, lawmakers at the House subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet brought up cable's newest advertising endeavor called Canoe Ventures. 
4/27/2009 DMTF Group to Create Cloud Computing Specs  eWeek Jeffrey Burt The Distributed Management Task Force is organizing a group of members who will create informational specifications aimed at addressing the need for open management standards for cloud computing. 
4/26/2009 The Sorry State Of Online Privacy TechCrunch.com Jason Kincaid It's quickly becoming clear that the cloud isn't ready for us because the services we rely on are letting us down with a frequency that is simply unacceptable.
4/24/2009 In a Frenzy of Democracy the Facebook Nation Has Spoken...well, 0.03% of them. The Register John Oates Facebook is claiming a victory in a vote to decide on changes to its terms and conditions, even though only 0.03 per cent of users voted on changes.
4/24/2009 House Members Plan to Draft New Online Privacy Bill ClickZ.net Kate Kaye House Members plan to draft new legislation regarding online privacy this year. 
4/23/2009 Watch out for the feds' proposed cybersecurity 'fix' InfoWorld Bill Snyder A proposed antiterrorist law could create a government-sanctioned back door into your network.
4/23/2009 Flaws in 'Internet SAFETY' bill NetworkWorld M. E. Kabay  Friend and colleague Robert Gezelter points to serious deficiencies in the thinking behind legislation currently under consideration in the House and Senate. 
4/23/2009 Cloud security stokes concerns at RSA Techworld Tim Greene Two words -- cloud security -- dominated discussion and drove the action this week at RSA Conference 2009.
4/23/2009 Cloud computing: How to decide 'when to cloud' ComputerWorld Mitch Betts Mark Tonsetic, program manager at Corporate Executive Board's Infrastructure Executive Council, says it's not an all-or-nothing proposition with Cloud Computing. Instead, he advises CIOs to look at the cloud on an application-by-application, project-by-project basis.
4/23/2009 Privacy experts urge panel to regulate Internet filtering method  CongressDaily Andrew Noyes Privacy experts urged the House Energy and Commerce Communications Subcommittee today to regulate a type of computer network filtering employed by broadband Internet providers for security because it could also be used to build extensive customer profiles and target content and advertising without consent.
4/23/2009 House Ponders Bill to Prevent ISP Snooping  PC Magazine Chloe Albanesius House members went back to the drawing board on Internet consumer protection Thursday; once again tackling the subject of how much personal data Web companies should collect about you, and whether or not Congress needs to legislate a solution.
4/22/2009 Cloud computing security? It's all a bit hazy RSA Conference: Should you be worried? silicon.com Steve Ranger Cloud computing might be the hottest tech trend (and certainly the most hyped), but experts are split over whether IT chiefs should be worrying about the security risks behind it.
4/21/2009 Another year of handwringing on cybersecurity San Francisco Chronicle Deborah Gage Every year, the security industry gets together at the RSA Conference in San Francisco to learn new techniques for fighting the bad guys, who always seem to be a step ahead.
4/21/2009 Q&A: The New Security Agenda: Changing the Game  SC Magazine    
4/21/2009 RSA Conference rallies the IT security industry  ComputerWeekly.com Warwick Ashford The RSA Conference 2009 got off to a quiet start in San Francisco yesterday with a few preliminary tutorials, but today sees the first keynote speakers take to the stage.
4/21/2009 RSA leader urges security vendors to collaborate  GCN.com William Jackson The rapidly evolving collaborative information infrastructure offers developers an opportunity to create true security by building it into information technology systems, said Arthur Coviello, president of RSA, EMC's security division.
4/21/2009 Information Security Forum Issues Cloud Security Report Dark Reading   Security professionals must mitigate risks in the next generation of computing, says ISF CEO Prof. Howard A. Schmidt.
4/21/2009 Judge sends Blockbuster to court over Facebook Beacon Borking Ever-changing online contracts 'illusory' The Register Cade Metz  A federal judge has given the green light to a lawsuit brought against video giant Blockbuster over its use of Facebook's privacy-destroying "Beacon" ad system.
4/21/2009 Cryptographers say cloud computing can be secured  SearchSecurity.com Robert Westervelt The move toward cloud computing may be inevitable, but that doesn't mean the related security challenges aren't avoidable.
4/20/2009 Congress Ponders Cybersecurity Power Grab from the no-cybersecurity-licenses-please dept  Techdirt Blogs Timothy Lee There was a lot of attention paid last week to a new "cybersecurity" bill that would drastically expand the government's power over the Internet.
4/20/2009 Gird Your Blogs! QuantcastTulsa Today Brad O'Leary Senators Rockefeller, Snowe, Bayh and Nelson introduced bills S. 773 and S.778, collectively called the Cybersecurity Act, which would give President Obama dictatorial power over the Internet during a time of national crisis or emergency.
4/19/2009 Don't put feds in charge of the Internet  San Francisco Chronicle James G. Lakely Leaders in Washington seem to view such threats as not so far-fetched. Two senators have proposed creating a tamer, real-life Jack Bauer in the form of a new "cybersecurity czar" and giving the federal government unprecedented control over America's Internet traffic.
4/19/2009 Big Bro's Cybersecurity Act: A means to shut down the Internet  Online Journal Jerry Mazza About Senate bill, S.773, the Cybersecurity Act of 2009. 
4/18/2009 Wanted: Computer hackers ... to help government The Associated Press via Google LOLITA C. BALDOR Federal authorities aren't looking to prosecute them, but to pay them to secure the nation's networks.
4/18/2009 Google's Schmidt Talks Privacy, Internet Domination  PC Magazine Chloe Albanesius Google CEO Eric Schmidt appeared at his alma mater, Princeton University, to discuss the Internet and globalization, Google products that have recently made headlines, and how not to be evil.
4/17/2009 Cloud Computing: a Pandora's Box of Security Nightmares Computerworld UK via CIO Siobhan Chapman Businesses installing cloud computing environments risk opening a "Pandora's Box of security nightmares", according to independent security group the Jericho Forum.
4/17/2009 A warning against premature adoption of cloud computing  Ars Technica Ryan Paul A new report on cloud computing indicates that building and operating a data center is still more cost-effective than adopting cloud computing services like EC2 for many large companies.
4/17/2009 Cloud Computing Gets A Much-Needed Reality Check  InformationWeek John Foley McKinsey & Co.'s conclusion that cloud computing is twice as expensive as do-it-yourself data centers is welcome news. 
4/16/2009 TRUSTe Expands Service Offerings to Protect Consumer Privacy and Corporate Reputations from Emerging Threats  TRUSTe   Acquisition of Haute Secure Delivers Automated Scanning of Domains For Threats from User-Generated Content and Advanced Malware Attacks
4/16/2009 Control of Cybersecurity Becomes Divisive Issue  New York Times JAMES RISEN and ERIC LICHTBLAU The National Security Agency has been campaigning to lead the government's rapidly growing cybersecurity programs, raising privacy and civil liberties concerns among some officials who fear that the move could give the spy agency too much control over government computer networks.
4/16/2009 'Mebroot' rootkit slides further under the security radar, researcher says ComputerWorld Jeremy Kirk A security researcher said that thousands of Web sites have been rigged to deliver a new variant of the Mebroot rootkit, which infects the master boot record on vulnerable PCs — effectively making it invisible to Windows and security tools.
4/16/2009 Researcher finds possible bug in Apple's iPhone ComputerWorld Jeremy Kirk Famed Mac hacker Charlie Miller has found another possible security vulnerability in Apple's iPhone.
4/16/2009 Firefox is the world's most vulnerable browser ComputerWorld Preston Gralla Firefox fans take note: A just-released report from the security company Secunia found that Firefox is far more vulnerable than Opera, Safari, and Internet Explorer --- and by a wide margin. 
4/16/2009 VMware bug allows Windows hack to attack Macs ComputerWorld Gregg Keizer A bug in VMware's Fusion virtualization software could be used to run malicious code on a Mac by exploiting Windows in a virtual machine, an exploit researcher at Immunity Inc. 
4/16/2009 Can a cloud be more secure than a corporate data center? Network World Tim Greene  The Jericho Forum next week plans to release its spin on the security of cloud computing with the perhaps surprising belief that using a cloud can actually be more secure than running applications and databases out of corporate data centers.
4/15/2009 Facebook users to vote on new privacy policy Belfast Telegraph   Voting begins on Facebook's new terms of service (TOS) agreement.
4/15/2009 Cloud Computing's Inherent Security Risks  CIO Insight John Parkinson  
4/14/2009 Google Street View doesn't breach privacy  IT Pro Asavin Wattanajantra A bid to shut down Google Street View fails as the ICO rules that it doesn't threaten privacy.
4/10/2009 E-Discovery in the Cloud:  Know Your Service Provider IT Business Edge Lora Bentley When it comes to doing business in the cloud, it's important to know your service provider.
4/8/2009 U.S. consumers snub mobile banking on security fears Reuters Sinead Carew A survey of 500 U.S. consumers has revealed that the majority are uncomfortable with using mobile devices for conducting financial transactions.
4/7/2009 Social Net Privacy Raises Concerns AdWeek.com Mark Dolliver A BBC World News American/Harris poll asked adults how much they trust various entities to handle their personal information in a secure manner.
4/1/2009 Kerry Outlines Senate Communications, Technology & Internet Subcommittee Priorities broadcastingcable.com John Eggerton Online privacy is a priority for the Senate Communications, Technology & Internet Subcommittee.
4/1/2009 Facebook's Chief Privacy Officer: Balancing Needs of Users with Business of social networks CIO G.C. Lynch According to a Ponemon Institute study, American consumers rank Facebook among the top 20 most trusted companies for privacy. 
3/31/2009 Tech Firms Seek to Get Agencies on Board With Cloud Computing  Washington Post Kim Hart Providers of cloud-based services are hoping to persuade the federal government to get on board with cloud computing.
3/31/2009 U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Review Rejection of Virginia Anti-Spam Law Washington Post Jerry Markon The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday declined to consider reinstating Virginia's anti-spam law.
3/26/2009 Cloud Computing Meets Washington: Lots of Data Security and Privacy Questions CIO Bernard Golden As moderator on a panel last week, Bernard Golden got a close up on cloud computing. 
3/26/2009 Researchers Can ID Anonymous Twitterers PCWorld Robert McMillan Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have discovered that applying proper analysis to anonymized data can reveal a person's identity.
3/26/2009 More Security Loopholes Found In Google Docs Washington Post Robin Wauters A security consultant has discovered more privacy-security loopholes in Google Docs.
3/25/2009 Cautionary tales from the social-networking universe Christian Science Monitor Tom Regan Where 175 million Netizens will go, cybercriminals will follow. 
3/24/2009 Facebook Gets New Public Policy Director New York Times Brad Stone Facebook has hired an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) attorney as its director of public policy.
3/24/2009 Uncle Sam's Cloud Computing Dilemma Information Week John Foley At an interoperability workshop earlier this week, ServerVault CTO John Curran discussed federal governments' use of cloud computing.
3/23/2009 Microsoft IE8 Browser Seeks Compromise On Privacy, Ad Growth Wall Street Journal   Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 8 browser (IE8) contains features that can prevent targeted advertising, a practice the company itself is adopting.
3/20/2009 Report: Cloud Computing Could Be Bigger Than The Web Information Week John Foley A newly released report calls on U.S. policymakers to help usher in a cloud computing environment.
3/17/2009 FTC questions cloud-computing security Cnet News Stephanie Condon Federal Trade Commission officials are hearing from industry, advocates and technologists about cloud computing's benefits and risks during a two-day workshop on the topic.
3/17/2009 Privacy Group Asks F.T.C. to Investigate Google New York Times Mighel Helft The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) yesterday asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to investigate the privacy and security safeguards of Google's cloud computing services.
3/16/2009 Facebook Lets Members Make Profile Elements Wide Open  PCWorld Juan Carlos Perez Facebook users now have the option to share more broadly. In response to users' requests, the company yesterday launched a new "everyone" setting that allows them to lift privacy access controls from certain elements of their profiles.
3/15/2009 Concern Rises over Behavioral Targeting and Ads New York Times Stephanie Clifford The results of a new survey show that online privacy is on the minds of many, reports the New York Times. More than 90 percent of 1,000 Americans polled by privacy trustmark provider TRUSTe indicated that Internet privacy is "really" or "somewhat" important to them. 
3/12/2009 Berners-Lee;  Semantic Web will have privacy built-in ZDNet   Privacy will be enhanced on the Semantic Web, according to Internet pioneer Sir Tim Berners-Lee. 
3/12/2009 Facebook Offers Ad Targeting By Language, Location MediaPost Publications Tanya Irwin In a message to advertisers yesterday, Facebook announced two new filtering features for tailoring ads to users
3/9/2009 Data privacy clarifacation could lead to greater confidence in cloud computing SC Magazine Dan Raywood Cloud computing is on the rise, and one Internet security analyst says consumer confidence in cloud computing depends on providers' adherence to data privacy laws.
3/9/2009 My Face in Your Book: Democratizing the Social Networks Law.com Harry Valetk As social networking becomes more than just a virtual place for the global community to link to friends and post "what you are doing right now," we are confronted with fascinating new questions about how we define personal space, disclosures, and express preferences about our own content.
3/6/2009 Obama Tech Adviser Lays Out Telecom Policy Roadmap Washington Post Cecilia Kang One of President Obama's top tech advisors said that privacy will be among the biggest telecommunications issues facing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the administration going forward.
3/5/2009 Google Latitude to Cops:  'I Don't Remember' Wired Ryan Singel Google's new location-tracking service has a short memory.
3/4/2009 Web-based computing spurs privacy concerns The Globe and Mail James Keller Cloud computing is edging its way into the mainstream, bringing data previously beholden to the hard drive out onto the Web. 
3/3/2009 Belgian court fines Yahoo The Times   The Belgian court in Termonde has fined Yahoo 55,000 Euros for refusing to hand over information on pseudonymous Yahoo users.
3/2/2009 Obama team finds it hard to adapt its web savvy to government Washington Post Jose Antonio Vargas Patience is necessary if you're a tech-savvy president or presidential tech advisor trying to adapt 2009-style communications vehicles into a less Web-ready White House infrastructure. 
3/2/2009 White House Denies Shunning YouTube New York Times Miguel Helft The White House hosted last week's presidential radio and video address on its own servers, leading to many reports that WhiteHouse.gov will no longer use YouTube for such postings due to privacy concerns about YouTube's persistent cookie for tracking surfing behaviors. 
2/26/2009 Facebook opens up to user debate and vote Cnet News Rafe Needleman During a press conference yesterday, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined his company's plans for a new, more perfect union with users when it comes to privacy and data ownership. 
2/26/2009 A false sense of security BBC News Bill Thompson Bill Thompson explores last week's fuss over changes to Facebook's Terms of Service agreement (TOS), saying he believes founder Mark Zuckerberg's earnest blog post on the reason for the changes, but that "residual suspicion of Facebook's motives" may have led to the passionate reaction. 
2/25/2009 Facebook, MySpace, and social (media) diseases Info World Robert X. Cringely Robert Cringely discusses the rise of social networking and its accompanying rise of risk. 
2/23/2009 Does Cloud Computing Mean More Risks to Privacy? New York Times Saul Hansell The World Privacy Forum (WPF) yesterday released its report Privacy in the Clouds: Risks to Privacy and Confidentiality from Cloud Computing. 
2/20/2009 Security, Privacy and Compliance In The Cloud Information Week Roger Smith Roger Smith writes about what he describes as one of the more interesting panel discussions at the IDC Cloud Computing Forum in San Francisco last week. 
2/20/2009 Whose data is it anyway? BBC News Mark Ward Last week's row over changes to Facebook's Terms of Service (TOS) has cast a spotlight on a subject many users of social networking sites don't pay much attention to--how the sites deal with users' data. 
2/19/2009 Privacy a Major Concern Among Web Surfers Online Media Daily Gavin O'Malley A survey of 4,000 Internet users has revealed that most Web surfers are concerned about the privacy of their personal information online.
2/18/2009 Facebook Rules - Room for Debate Blog New York Times The Editors The New York Times' cyber debate space is abuzz this week with talk of Facebook's changes to its Terms of Service agreement, then subsequent reversal of those changes. 
2/17/2009 Facebook Update The Facebook Blog Mark Zuckerberg Facebook has reversed the recent changes made to its Terms of Service agreement due to user response. In a blog post early this morning, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote that, after reaching out to respected organizations for input, "we have decided to return to our previous terms of use while we resolve the issues that people have raised." 
2/16/2009 Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg responds to privacy concerns Los Angeles Times David Sarno Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is attempting to quell concerns about a change made to his company's Terms of Service (TOS) agreement earlier this year
2/5/2009 Google Peeks At Location-Specific Mobile Ads Through Latitude Online Media Daily Laurie Sullivan While Google refutes charges that it intends to deploy its behavioral targeting platform with its health data service, the company is less direct in response to questions it may have marketing on the mind with its new Latitude user location service. 
2/4/2009 Google Latitude Service Lets You Track Your Friends:  How It Works PC World Ian Paul Google announced the launch of Latitude, a new application that, once downloaded on a laptop computer or smart phone, allows the device to be tracked online using Google Maps. 
2/3/2009 MySpace Releases Names of 90,000 Sex Offenders New York Times Jenna Wortham MySpace has released a 90,000-name list of users to two states' attorneys general
2/1/2009 Facebook offers up users as marketing tool Guardian.co.uk Richard Wray At Davos this past weekend, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlaid his company's plans to commoditize anonymized user data.
1/29/2009 Gartner Reveals Eight Mobile Technologies to watch in 2009 and 2010 Gartner Christy Pettey Gartner Inc. has identified "eight mobile technologies to watch" for 2009 and 2010. Among them: location sensing. 
1/26/2009 A Leibowitz-Led FTC May Strengthen Spotlight on Digital Ads ClickZ Kate Kaye The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) would key in on online advertising and privacy under the reign of Jon Leibowitz.
1/25/2009 Google's Gdrive 'will make the PC redundant' Telegraph Stephen Adams Google will launch a "GDrive" this year that would let users store their data "in the cloud" instead of on a hard drive. 
1/23/2009 White House Web Site Revisits Privacy Policy Information Week Thomas Claburn White House staffers are tweaking Whitehouse.gov after last week's discovery of a persistent cookie associated with embedded YouTube videos on the site. 
1/22/2009 Facebook Slow to Respond to Phishing Scam Wall Street Journal Marisa Taylor Facebook is fielding criticism for being too slow in addressing users' privacy concerns despite prior sanctions against the company for the same complaint.
1/5/2009 MySpace:  All about sex, drugs and violence for teens, study says Scientific American Jordan Lite Two recently released studies show that the majority of MySpace users reference personal risky behavior on their profiles, but will rein in some of the private information if prompted. 
1/5/2009 Twishing attacks steal data in 140 characters or less ars Technica Joel Hruska Joel Hruska highlights the emergence of twishing schemes--attempts to send malware via the Twitter social networking platform. 
1/5/2009 Facebook Looks to Control User Data The Daily Online Examiner Wendy Davis Facebook has filed suit in federal court against Power.com for, among other allegations, violations of the CAN-SPAM Act.
1/3/2009 Friended by Mon and Dad on Facebook ABC News Alexa Davis Since Facebook opened its site to all (until September 2007, only students with a valid college e-mail address could use the popular social networking site), the numbers of older adults using the site, including parents and relatives of students, has steadily increased. 
12/30/2008 Adobe's Flash and Apple's Safari Fail a Privacy Test New York Times Brad Stone New research by iSec Partners in San Francisco suggests that some browser privacy tools may not be that effective in helping users protect their privacy online.
12/29/2008 Dorm Rumors Boston Globe Bella English College gossip Web site Juicy Campus is causing a stir on the quad of every school where the online scandal sheet has established a presence, upsetting more than just those who fall victim to the barbs posted there. 
12/24/2008 Separating Real From Fake on the Internet New York Times Jenna Wortham The recent brouhaha that erupted when a college guidebook publisher created bogus accounts and formed user groups within Facebook to promote its products exposed a new facet in the ongoing issue of brand trust online. 
12/23/2008 More Privacy Online New York Times   A recent editorial in the New York Times suggests that Yahoo's decision to cut the length of time it retains a user's search data to 90 days, and to anonymize the retained user data, was motivated by a desire to use privacy as a brand differentiator. 
12/18/2008 Microsoft:  Zero Data Retention Not Possible To Keep Search Engines Viable e-week.com Clint Boulton Some have lauded Yahoo's plans to reduce retention terms for search users' log data to three months, while others have said the company is not going far enough, and that search engines should not retain any identifiable user data. 
12/17/2008 Yahoo Limits Retention of Personal Data New York Times Miguel Helft Privacy advocates and government officials are praising Yahoo's plans to reduce the amount of time it retains users' search data to 90 days.
12/17/2008 Yahoo will anonymize user data after 90 days; ups privacy ante ZDNet.com Larry Dignan Yahoo announced yesterday that it will anonymize user logs after 90 days.
12/16/2008 NAI Overhauls Privacy Principles for Online BT Ads Online Media Daily Wendy Davis The Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) has issued new privacy principles for online behavioral advertising.
12/16/2008 Privacy groups ask Obama for stronger FTC Cnet News Stephanie Condon Privacy advocates met with members of President-elect Barack Obama's transition team yesterday to discuss the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) role in protecting the privacy of consumers.
12/15/2008 Let Your Boss Find Your Facebook Friends New York Times Saul Hansell Salesforce.com has found a novel way to help companies recruit potential employees using Facebook.
12/11/2008 Chrome loses beta label, tackles privacy ZDNet.com Sam Diaz Google's Chrome browser for PCs is out of beta.
12/9/2008 Google Flu Trends spreads privacy concern Computerworld Jaikumar Vijayan Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) wants to know more about Flu Trends. 
12/8/2008 MySpace Vows to Boost Dat Portability Efforts PC World Juan Carlos Perez Last week, Facebook released its 'Connect' feature for letting users network across the Web using their Facebook credentials. 
12/8/2008 Mozilla launches Firefox 3.1 Beta 2, now with 'Private Browsing' Computerworld Gregg Keizer Mozilla has released a privacy-enhanced version of its Firefox browser.
12/8/2008 New Cyber Security Push Is Urged Wall Street Journal Siobhan Gorman A commission created to inform officials on cyber-security issues will today release recommendations for the new administration.
12/7/2008 Could your social networks spill your secrets? Short Sharp Science Tom Simonite Even those who are diligent about privacy settings amass a cache of online personal data when using social networking applications. 
11/28/2008 Google's Gatekeepers New York Times Jeffrey Rosen Today's Internet is a platform for vast amounts free speech, which has given rise to the Internet-company-as-gatekeeper phenomenon. 
11/24/2008 Facebook wins $873 million case against spammer San Francisco Chronicle Deborah Gage Facebook has $873 million coming to it since a U.S. District Court judge ruled in the company's favor in its case against a prolific spammer.
11/20/2008 Does AT&T's Newfound Interest in Privacy Hurt Google? New York Times Saul Hansell Saul Hansell takes a look into the Future of Privacy group.
11/19/2008 Coalition:  Cloud computing raises privacy issues Federal Computer World Alice Lipowicz The Constitution Project has released a report calling for various government branches to better protect privacy.
11/17/2008 Keylogger spyware ordered off the market SC Magazine Chuck Miller An Orlando company has been ordered to stop selling keylogger spyware.
11/17/2008 Group hopes to shape nation's privacy policy San Francisco Chronicle Deborah Gage A group of privacy experts has assembled to help shape the future of privacy.
11/14/2008 Teachers and Facebook:  Privacy vs. standards Charlotte Observer Fred Clasen-Kelly What one North Carolina elementary school teacher believed to be private postings about students to her Facebook page ended up on the news.
11/12/2008 Legal Eye:  Privacy perils of social networking silicon.com Patrick Van Eecke A next-generation social networking application gaining traction across Europe has sparked a next-generation privacy debate. 
11/6/2008 Zuckerberg's Law of Information Sharing New York Times Saul Hansell Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg predicted that the amount of information people reveal through social networking sites will double next year due to Internet users' increasing willingness to share information.
11/4/2008 New Firefox privacy mode released to testers cnet news Josh Lowensohn Mozilla released to testers the private browsing feature for its Firefox browser on Monday.
11/4/2008 AMI:  Social Networking Services for Busines On the Rise TMC.net Rajani Baburajan  Small businesses in the U.S. are increasingly using social networking services for their enterprise needs and networking sites must tailor services to these users.
11/1/2008 Google's growth makes privacy advocates wary The Monitor Associated Press Google's role in Internet search and advertising arenas worries some advocates.
10/27/2008 Big Tech Companies Back Global Plan to Shield Online Speech New York Times MIGUEL HELFT and JOHN MARKOFF A handful of big tech companies and human rights groups will introduce a global code of conduct for protecting free speech on the Internet and helping prevent government intrusion into online activities.
10/27/2008 Schools' use of parents' e-mail addresses causes concern Freep.com Emilia Askari Two Michigan school board candidates used schools' parental email lists to plug their campaigns.
10/25/2008 Phishing' scam uses BBB name to target consumers The Vancouver Sun Gerry Bellett The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a large-scale phishing scam that uses the Better Business Bureau (BBB) name to spread viruses and spyware onto consumers' computers.
10/22/2008 A primer on web browser privacy tools Washington Post Brian Krebs The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) has released a whitepaper to help users make sense of the different privacy protections now offered by the major Web browsers.
10/14/2008 Authorities shut down major spam ring The New York Times Brad Stone The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) yesterday convinced a Chicago federal court to shut down an international spam ring described as "the most extensive they had ever encountered." 
10/8/2008 Son of Tenn. Democrat indicted in Palin hacking Associated Press Duncan Masfield The son of a Tennessee lawmaker pleaded not guilty in federal court yesterday to charges of hacking into the email account of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. 
10/5/2008 European standoff over search engine data International Herald Tribune Kevin J. O'Brien European data protection officials will meet with representatives from U.S. Internet search engines in December as part of an ongoing effort to reach a compromise on data retention terms for Internet searches.
9/28/2008 Consumers Fear Online Exploitation, Polls Find New Haven Register Staff Americans are concerned about Internet privacy according to the results of a Consumer Reports National Research Center study. 
9/26/2008 Graduate schools consult Facebook The Daily Princetonian Reilly Kiernan A recent Kaplan Test Prep survey found that an increasing number of graduate school admissions officers are using social networking profiles to help evaluate candidates.
9/20/2008 Chrome Concerns San Jose Mercury News   It's said to be speedy and robust, but Google's new Chrome Internet browser worries some privacy advocates.
9/20/2008 After Va.'s Losses In Court, a Flurry Of Finger-Pointing Washington Post Jerry Markon The Virginia Supreme Court's rejection of an anti-spam law is the state's latest high-profile legal defeat, a string of losses that some lawyers see as coincidental but others say reflects the General Assembly's willingness to pass aggressive measures that are more likely to face a constitutional challenge.
9/19/2008 Browser wars:  IE 8 vs. Google Chrome vs. Mozilla Firefox 3.1 itbusiness.ca JR Raphael Google, Microsoft and Mozilla recently released updated Internet browsers. All three offer private browsing.
9/17/2008 Feds probe hack of Palin's e-mail account Cnet News Declan McCullaugh The U.S. Secret Service is investigating the hack into Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's email.
9/14/2008 Pew study:  cloud computin gpopular, privacy worries linger ARS Technica Julian Sanchez Cloud computing services are growing in popularity, but concerns about the privacy of personal data in the cloud environment exist, according to the findings of a Pew Internet and American Life project study.
9/12/2008 Virginia Court Strikes Down Anti-Spam Law New York Times Associated Press The Virginia Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the state's anti-spam law is unconstitutional.
9/11/2008 Mozilla adds privacy mode to Firefox 3.1 plans Computerworld Gregg Keizer Mozilla has revived efforts to incorporate a privacy mode into its browser and will likely release one in Firefox 3.1, which is expected to go to beta next month.
9/9/2008 Google promises privacy fixes in its Chrome browser Washington Post Ellen Nakashima Google will take steps to ensure a more private browsing experience for users of Chrome.
9/7/2008 Law prof warns against coming ISP privacy apocalypse ARS Technica Nate Anderson Colorado Law School Professor Paul Ohm says that ISP's use of deep packet inspection technology combined with government mandates could lead to "the greatest reduction of user privacy in the history of the Internet." 
9/5/2008 I'm So Totally, Digitally Close to You New York Times Clive Thompson Facebook. Twitter. Microblogs. The New York Times takes a close look at the pervasiveness of new communications technologies and society's resulting hyper-connectedness with friends and acquaintances. 
9/4/2008 How To Erase Your Tracks Online Forbes Andy Greenberg The release this week of two Web browsers with built-in privacy controls has opened the door for greater user privacy. 
9/4/2008 Privacy Policies are Great -- for PhDs BNET Erik Sherman One curious BNET.com blogger ran the privacy policies of 23 corporations through readability software to find out how many years of education readers would need in order to understand the policy terms. 
9/2/2008 Google launches web browser with privacy mode OUT-LAW.com   Google's new Internet browser, Google Chrome, will let users browse incognito.
8/20/2008 Microsoft planning IE privacy mode WebWare Stephen Shankland A new version of Internet Explorer that will give users more control over the data generated on their Web activity is slated to launch later this year 
8/14/2008 McCain Promotes Online Security, Privacy Policies PCWorld Nancy Gohring John McCain yesterday outlined his views on Internet security and privacy. The presumptive Republican presidential candidate said consumer education, technological innovation, increased law enforcement and industry self-regulation will help ensure "personal security for Americans in the digital age," the report states.
8/14/2008 Facebook Sued Over Beacon MediaPost Publication Wendy Davis Nineteen users have filed a class-action lawsuit against Facebook and its partners for alleged privacy violations. The suit says that Facebook's Beacon program, which lets users know about their friends' online purchases, violated various federal and California laws
8/6/2008 Hacker indictment greeted with muted response The Associated Press Jordan Robertson The Associated Press reports that cyber researchers at a hacking conference in Las Vegas this week met the news of the TJX indictments with shrugs. The reaction may be attributed to the elementary nature of the hack, which involved wardriving--driving around with devices that hunt for wireless security holes to exploit vulnerable networks. 
7/29/2008 Telecommuting poses security, privacy risks Network World Ellen Messmer A new study by Ernst & Young LLP and the Center for Democracy and Technology finds that telecommuting presents privacy and security risks to organizations. 
7/28/2008 Cuil Challenges Google With Privacy Information Week Thomas Claburn The founders of a new search engine say your search history is your business, not theirs, reports InformationWeek. Launched yesterday by a former Google executive and her husband, a search-engine researcher, Cuil (pronounced "cool") promises user privacy. 
7/24/2008 Facebook to sow network beyond 'walled garden' Globe and Mail Eric Auchard At Facebook's annual conference this week, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg rolled out plans for "Facebook Connect," the company's move to populate the World Wide Web with Facebook features. 
7/22/2008 Online Safety, Privacy Tops Parents' Concerns Information Week K.C. Jones Ninety-seven percent of adults surveyed recently say that protecting their online privacy is somewhat or very important, reports InformationWeek, and 56 percent feel they don't have enough privacy online. 
7/21/2008 The F.T.C.'s Bully Pulpit on Privacy New York Times Saul Hansell Saul Hansell recently sat down with some of the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) top Internet advertising, privacy and consumer protection experts. In his resulting "Bits" column,  we learn why Lydia Parnes, the FTC's bureau of consumer protection director, doesn't want to rush Internet privacy legislation, whether she believes special rules are needed for Internet service providers that monitor their customers surfing habits and how self-regulation works at the FTC, among other details.
7/17/2008 US lawmaker wants consent required for Web-tracking Reuters Peter Kaplan Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA) says Internet service providers should be required to get "opt-in" consent from customers in order to track their Web habits for the purpose of serving tailored advertisements. 
7/17/2008 Facebook bug leaks members' birthday data Computer World Robert McMillan Facebook users who limit access to their personal information may have been surprised to see their dates of birth viewable on the site last weekend. A bug in the beta version of Facebook's site redesign inadvertently exposed the birthdays of some of its 80 million users.
7/15/2008 Microsoft Says Yahoo-Google Deal Threatens Internet Privacy Information Week Paul McDougall Microsoft yesterday had its say before governmental officials regarding Yahoo's plans to outsource some of its search advertising to Google. The House and Senate antitrust subcommittees are examining the plan, which would give Google up to 90 percent of all Internet search queries and a "clear picture of your online activities," according to Microsoft. 
7/10/2008 Can Internet Activity Ever Be Truly Anonymous? PC Magazine Chloe Albanesius The ability for Web surfers' online activities to remain truly anonymous was questioned yesterday during Senate hearings on Internet advertising. 
7/10/2008 FTC, Internet Firms Split On New Privacy Laws Wall Street Journal Fawn Johnson At the same time that Google and Microsoft offered their support for new legislation aimed at protecting consumer privacy online, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) told a Senate committee looking into behavioral targeting that existing law and self-regulation were sufficient. 
7/10/2008 Can Internet Activity Ever Be Truly Anonymous? PC Magazine Chloe Albanesius The ability for Web surfers' online activities to remain truly anonymous was questioned yesterday during Senate hearings on Internet advertising. 
7/10/2008 FTC, Internet Firms Split On New Privacy Laws Wall Street Journal Fawn Johnson At the same time that Google and Microsoft offered their support for new legislation aimed at protecting consumer privacy online, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) told a Senate committee looking into behavioral targeting that existing law and self-regulation were sufficient. 
7/9/2008 Viacom Versus Google:  Coming Of Age of the "Viderate" Generation Huffington Post Jerry Weinstein A judge's order that Google provide user names and IP addresses of users of its YouTube property following a subpoena request by media giant Viacom, which is suing the company over copyright violations, continues to draw sharp criticism.
7/9/2008 Microsoft, Google back broad privacy legislation Associated Press Joelle Tessler Technology rivals Google and Microsoft have both put their support behind new privacy legislation designed to protect consumers from having their online habits tracked for the purposes of advertising. 
7/9/2008 Viacom Versus Google:  Coming Of Age of the "Viderate" Generation Huffington Post Jerry Weinstein A judge's order that Google provide user names and IP addresses of users of its YouTube property following a subpoena request by media giant Viacom, which is suing the company over copyright violations, continues to draw sharp criticism.
7/9/2008 Microsoft, Google back broad privacy legislation Associated Press Joelle Tessler Technology rivals Google and Microsoft have both put their support behind new privacy legislation designed to protect consumers from having their online habits tracked for the purposes of advertising. 
7/8/2008 NebuAd to come under spotlight at Senate hearing Associated Press Joelle Tessler While better known Internet entities take their turns testifying before a Senate committee looking into issues of online privacy, one company with less name recognition is expected to attract the most attention in Washington, D.C. today. Silicon Valley behavioral targeting startup NebuAd is expected to be the focus of questioning today as senators seek to learn more about the company's technology, which allows Internet service providers to monitor customers' online habits and serve ads based on information gathered. 
7/8/2008 NebuAd to come under spotlight at Senate hearing Associated Press Joelle Tessler While better known Internet entities take their turns testifying before a Senate committee looking into issues of online privacy, one company with less name recognition is expected to attract the most attention in Washington, D.C. today. Silicon Valley behavioral targeting startup NebuAd is expected to be the focus of questioning today as senators seek to learn more about the company's technology, which allows Internet service providers to monitor customers' online habits and serve ads based on information gathered. 
7/7/2008 One Subpoena Is All It Takes to Reveal Your Online Life New York Times Saul Hansell Saul Hansell says that a subpoena in either civil or criminal proceedings is all that is necessary to put the online habits of consumers at risk. Hansell points to a current dispute between media giant Viacom and online titan Google in which lawyers for Viacom have subpoenaed for access to the user names and Internet protocol addresses of YouTube users.
7/7/2008 How Magic Might Finally Fix Your Computer MSNBC Bob Sullivan Bob Sullivan reports from the Security and Human Behavior conference in Boston that hackers, fraudsters and other online charlatans have always had an edge against even the most sophisticated security technologies because they understand and exploit the frailties of human behavior, whereas product developers tend to ignore basic human behavior when designing their products. 
7/7/2008 One Subpoena Is All It Takes to Reveal Your Online Life New York Times Saul Hansell Saul Hansell says that a subpoena in either civil or criminal proceedings is all that is necessary to put the online habits of consumers at risk. Hansell points to a current dispute between media giant Viacom and online titan Google in which lawyers for Viacom have subpoenaed for access to the user names and Internet protocol addresses of YouTube users.
7/7/2008 How Magic Might Finally Fix Your Computer MSNBC Bob Sullivan Bob Sullivan reports from the Security and Human Behavior conference in Boston that hackers, fraudsters and other online charlatans have always had an edge against even the most sophisticated security technologies because they understand and exploit the frailties of human behavior, whereas product developers tend to ignore basic human behavior when designing their products. 
7/4/2008 Google Changes Home Page, Adding Link to Privacy Policy New York Times Saul Hansell Google has added a link to its privacy policy on its homepage, reports Saul Hansell of the New York Times, stifling the argument that the company might have been violating California's online privacy protection act by not displaying the link in a prominent enough location. 
7/4/2008 Judge Orders Google to Turn Over YouTube Records New York Times Miguel Helft Viacom wants the records of all Internet users who have watched videos on YouTube since its 2005 inception, and a federal judge has ordered YouTube owner Google to turn over the information.
7/4/2008 Google Changes Home Page, Adding Link to Privacy Policy New York Times Saul Hansell Google has added a link to its privacy policy on its homepage, reports Saul Hansell of the New York Times, stifling the argument that the company might have been violating California's online privacy protection act by not displaying the link in a prominent enough location. 
7/4/2008 Judge Orders Google to Turn Over YouTube Records New York Times Miguel Helft Viacom wants the records of all Internet users who have watched videos on YouTube since its 2005 inception, and a federal judge has ordered YouTube owner Google to turn over the information.
7/3/2008 Our Paradoxical Attitudes Toward Privacy New York Times Brad Stone Brad Stone discusses the privacy paradox: the phenomenon where "normally sane people have inconsistent and contradictory impulses and opinions when it comes to their safeguarding their own private information." 
7/3/2008 Our Paradoxical Attitudes Toward Privacy New York Times Brad Stone Brad Stone discusses the privacy paradox: the phenomenon where "normally sane people have inconsistent and contradictory impulses and opinions when it comes to their safeguarding their own private information." 
7/2/2008 Survey: Advertisers should acknowledge targeted ad concerns Webware Caroline McCarthy A report released last week shows that consumers have mixed feelings about the use of behavioral marketing strategies used to serve them targeted ads. A CNET story says that the report, "Behavioral Targeting Attitudes: The Privacy Issue," which used metrics from a TRUSTe study, found that of the 70 percent of Internet users who are aware that their browsing activities could be used by third parties to serve tailored ads, only about 23 percent said they were "OK" with the method. 
7/2/2008 Survey: Advertisers should acknowledge targeted ad concerns Webware Caroline McCarthy A report released last week shows that consumers have mixed feelings about the use of behavioral marketing strategies used to serve them targeted ads. A CNET story says that the report, "Behavioral Targeting Attitudes: The Privacy Issue," which used metrics from a TRUSTe study, found that of the 70 percent of Internet users who are aware that their browsing activities could be used by third parties to serve tailored ads, only about 23 percent said they were "OK" with the method. 
6/26/2008 Google tests using your search data to tailor ads to you New York Times Saul Hansell Saul Hansell explores Google's foray into using cookie data to "better aim search ads at Web surfers." But don't call it behavioral targeting. Google says its method differs from behavioral advertising methods because it targets ads based on very recent search queries, rather than user patterns from days back.
6/26/2008 Google tests using your search data to tailor ads to you New York Times Saul Hansell Saul Hansell explores Google's foray into using cookie data to "better aim search ads at Web surfers." But don't call it behavioral targeting. Google says its method differs from behavioral advertising methods because it targets ads based on very recent search queries, rather than user patterns from days back.
6/24/2008 SocialMedia to Push Privacy Boundaries with Social Banner Ads Mashable Social Networking News Paul Glazowski Testimonials have long been an effective method in the world of advertising, and now one company plans to create personalized testimonials for its advertising partners. Social Media, marketing service provider to applications used on Facebook, MySpace, Bebo and Hi5, will roll out to clients and their users social banners.
6/24/2008 SocialMedia to Push Privacy Boundaries with Social Banner Ads Mashable Social Networking News Paul Glazowski Testimonials have long been an effective method in the world of advertising, and now one company plans to create personalized testimonials for its advertising partners. Social Media, marketing service provider to applications used on Facebook, MySpace, Bebo and Hi5, will roll out to clients and their users social banners.
6/19/2008 House leaders plan hearing on Google-Yahoo deal Computer World Linda Rosencrance Last week's online advertising partnership announcement from Google and Yahoo got the attention of congressional leaders, who will hold hearings on the matter this summer.
6/19/2008 House leaders plan hearing on Google-Yahoo deal Computer World Linda Rosencrance Last week's online advertising partnership announcement from Google and Yahoo got the attention of congressional leaders, who will hold hearings on the matter this summer.
6/18/2008 Let go of my texts--all 75,000 of them! Cnet News.com Kevin Ho The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco yesterday ruled that users of text messaging services have a reasonable expectation of privacy under the Fourth Amendment, even if the employer is paying for the service. 
6/18/2008 Let go of my texts--all 75,000 of them! Cnet News.com Kevin Ho The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco yesterday ruled that users of text messaging services have a reasonable expectation of privacy under the Fourth Amendment, even if the employer is paying for the service. 
6/16/2008 Firefox dumps privacy button The Inquirer Nick Farrell A privacy feature set to be included in Firefox 3 has been dumped due to technological concerns. Private Browsing is the feature allowing users to, in the stroke of a key, disable all caching, cookie downloads, history records and form data while online, meaning that you could surf without footprints.
6/16/2008 Firefox dumps privacy button The Inquirer Nick Farrell A privacy feature set to be included in Firefox 3 has been dumped due to technological concerns. Private Browsing is the feature allowing users to, in the stroke of a key, disable all caching, cookie downloads, history records and form data while online, meaning that you could surf without footprints.
6/14/2008 How Facebook spells the end of privacy Boston Globe Hary Lewis There was a time when we called it the World Wide Web without, perhaps, realizing just how Web-like it would become. 
6/14/2008 How Facebook spells the end of privacy Boston Globe Hary Lewis There was a time when we called it the World Wide Web without, perhaps, realizing just how Web-like it would become. 
6/12/2008 Privacy vs. Profit on the Internet NPR Cyrus Farivar Internet Service Providers efforts to increase revenue by serving more tailored ads to users continues to spark debate. But on its "All Things Considered" program, National Public Radio spoke with one advertising executive who feels the practice of tracking consumers' surfing behavior in order to deliver targeted ads is "largely deceptive." 
6/12/2008 California lawmaker puts Google on notice about missing link to privacy policy Computer World Jaikumar Vijayan California State Assemblyman Joel Anderson says he is eager for Google to add a link to its privacy policy from its homepage, and he's ready to take action if the company does not do so.
6/12/2008 Senate Slates Online Ad Hearing Online Media Daily Wendy Davis The Senate Subcommittee on Interstate Commerce, Trade and Tourism will next week hear from various interests on the practice of behavioral targeting--tracking Web clicks in order to tailor ads to Web users based on their online activity. 
6/12/2008 Privacy vs. Profit on the Internet NPR Cyrus Farivar Internet Service Providers efforts to increase revenue by serving more tailored ads to users continues to spark debate. But on its "All Things Considered" program, National Public Radio spoke with one advertising executive who feels the practice of tracking consumers' surfing behavior in order to deliver targeted ads is "largely deceptive." 
6/12/2008 California lawmaker puts Google on notice about missing link to privacy policy Computer World Jaikumar Vijayan California State Assemblyman Joel Anderson says he is eager for Google to add a link to its privacy policy from its homepage, and he's ready to take action if the company does not do so.
6/12/2008 Senate Slates Online Ad Hearing Online Media Daily Wendy Davis The Senate Subcommittee on Interstate Commerce, Trade and Tourism will next week hear from various interests on the practice of behavioral targeting--tracking Web clicks in order to tailor ads to Web users based on their online activity. 
6/10/2008 Google says it would support U.S. privacy law Reuters Diane Bartz In a letter to Texas Rep. Joe Barton, Google's chief lobbyist pledged the company's support of a federal privacy law, says a Reuters report. The letter states that Google would support a law aimed at "building consumer trust and protections; creating a uniform framework for privacy, which would create consistent levels of privacy from one jurisdiction to another; and putting penalties in place to punish and dissuade bad actors." 
6/10/2008 Google says it would support U.S. privacy law Reuters Diane Bartz In a letter to Texas Rep. Joe Barton, Google's chief lobbyist pledged the company's support of a federal privacy law, says a Reuters report. The letter states that Google would support a law aimed at "building consumer trust and protections; creating a uniform framework for privacy, which would create consistent levels of privacy from one jurisdiction to another; and putting penalties in place to punish and dissuade bad actors." 
6/6/2008 MySpace Privacy Flaw Exposes Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan Pics The Channel Wire Stefanie Hoffman MySpace and Yahoo have disabled data availability between the two services until a privacy flaw can be corrected. MySpace's Data Availability initiative allows users to share profile information with other sites, such as Yahoo. 
6/6/2008 MySpace Privacy Flaw Exposes Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan Pics The Channel Wire Stefanie Hoffman MySpace and Yahoo have disabled data availability between the two services until a privacy flaw can be corrected. MySpace's Data Availability initiative allows users to share profile information with other sites, such as Yahoo. 
5/16/2008 Facebook Disconnects Google Friend Connect Information Week Thomas Claburn Citing a failure to respect privacy requirements, Facebook has suspended Friend Connect, the Google service that adds social features to any Web site.
5/16/2008 Facebook Disconnects Google Friend Connect Information Week Thomas Claburn Citing a failure to respect privacy requirements, Facebook has suspended Friend Connect, the Google service that adds social features to any Web site.
5/15/2008 Plaxo users worried about privacy in wake of Comcast buyout ARS Technica Jacqui Cheng Some customers of Plaxo, the online address book and social networking site, are expressing concern about the company's agreement to be acquired by Comcast.
5/15/2008 Plaxo users worried about privacy in wake of Comcast buyout ARS Technica Jacqui Cheng Some customers of Plaxo, the online address book and social networking site, are expressing concern about the company's agreement to be acquired by Comcast.
5/14/2008 How to Make Security And Privacy Fit Together Forbes.com Bruce McConnell In his Forbes.com commentary, former White House IT policy chief Bruce McConnell makes the case that security and privacy need not be a zero-sum game. 
5/14/2008 How to Make Security And Privacy Fit Together Forbes.com Bruce McConnell In his Forbes.com commentary, former White House IT policy chief Bruce McConnell makes the case that security and privacy need not be a zero-sum game. 
5/12/2008 Q&A: Jules Polonetsky, Chief Privacy Officer, AOL InternetNews.com Kenneth Corbin AOL's Chief Privacy Officer Jules Polonetsky, CIPP, says he thinks businesses have a chance to prove right now that they're ready to give consumers control over their data, perhaps nulling the need for future legislative controls.
5/12/2008 Q&A: Jules Polonetsky, Chief Privacy Officer, AOL InternetNews.com Kenneth Corbin AOL's Chief Privacy Officer Jules Polonetsky, CIPP, says he thinks businesses have a chance to prove right now that they're ready to give consumers control over their data, perhaps nulling the need for future legislative controls.
5/8/2008 Facebook agrees to Protect Young Customers New York Times Brad Stone Facebook has agreed to better protect young users from inappropriate material and other users, says a New York Times report. As part of the improvements, Facebook chief privacy officer Chris Kelly said the company will create technology that helps flag those who falsify their age. 
5/8/2008 Facebook agrees to Protect Young Customers New York Times Brad Stone Facebook has agreed to better protect young users from inappropriate material and other users, says a New York Times report. As part of the improvements, Facebook chief privacy officer Chris Kelly said the company will create technology that helps flag those who falsify their age. 
5/5/2008 Internet Says: 'Me Want Cookie' The Wall Street Journal L. Gordon Crovitz L. Gordon Crovitz writes that cookies remain the center of the online privacy discussion because of the mystery that surrounds their use and their importance in tracking consumer activity.
5/5/2008 Internet Says: 'Me Want Cookie' The Wall Street Journal L. Gordon Crovitz L. Gordon Crovitz writes that cookies remain the center of the online privacy discussion because of the mystery that surrounds their use and their importance in tracking consumer activity.
5/2/2008 The Rise of Alter Egos In Everybody's Space The Washington Post Kim Hart After a few years of posting their lives online, subscribers to online social networking utilities are starting to change their habits, and some are opting to start over and apply hard-earned lessons.
5/2/2008 The Rise of Alter Egos In Everybody's Space The Washington Post Kim Hart After a few years of posting their lives online, subscribers to online social networking utilities are starting to change their habits, and some are opting to start over and apply hard-earned lessons.
4/28/2008 Social networking apps can pose security risks The Globe and Mail Martha Irvine Social networkers might think that as long as they've set their page as "private," only friends and specific groups can access it. But if they use applications, they're also allowing developers into that seemingly private world.
4/28/2008 Social networking apps can pose security risks The Globe and Mail Martha Irvine Social networkers might think that as long as they've set their page as "private," only friends and specific groups can access it. But if they use applications, they're also allowing developers into that seemingly private world.
4/23/2008 FBI, politicos renew push for ISP data retention laws Cnet News.com Declan McCullagh FBI Director Robert Mueller and a number of members of Congress are pushing to require Internet service providers (ISPs) to retain subscriber activity data longer in order to provide more options for the investigation of criminal activity online.
4/23/2008 FBI, politicos renew push for ISP data retention laws Cnet News.com Declan McCullagh FBI Director Robert Mueller and a number of members of Congress are pushing to require Internet service providers (ISPs) to retain subscriber activity data longer in order to provide more options for the investigation of criminal activity online.
4/16/2008 AOL CPO Jules Polonetsky on Hitting the Privacy Sweet Spot E-Commerce News Rachelle Crum AOL this month launched its "penguin" campaign to educate users, in a user-friendly manner, about how their online activities may be tracked and used for targeting ads. An animated penguin lets users know when behavioral targeting is happening, and aims to help them understand how it works and how they can opt out of it.
4/16/2008 Phorm hires first chief provacy officer NMA.co.uk Suzanne Bearne Online tracking company Phorm this week announced the hiring of a chief privacy officer, the firm's first. Jeffrey Brooks, formerly DoubleClick's vice president of privacy and government affairs, was appointed to the position on Tuesday in a move praised by at least one industry observer. 
4/16/2008 AOL CPO Jules Polonetsky on Hitting the Privacy Sweet Spot E-Commerce News Rachelle Crum AOL this month launched its "penguin" campaign to educate users, in a user-friendly manner, about how their online activities may be tracked and used for targeting ads. An animated penguin lets users know when behavioral targeting is happening, and aims to help them understand how it works and how they can opt out of it.
4/16/2008 Phorm hires first chief provacy officer NMA.co.uk Suzanne Bearne Online tracking company Phorm this week announced the hiring of a chief privacy officer, the firm's first. Jeffrey Brooks, formerly DoubleClick's vice president of privacy and government affairs, was appointed to the position on Tuesday in a move praised by at least one industry observer. 
4/15/2008 Consumer groups urge do not track registry Reuters Diane Bartz Two consumer advocacy groups, the Consumer Federation of America and the Consumers Union, asked in a letter to the Federal Trade Commission for the creation of a "Do Not Track" registry aimed at preventing companies from collecting consumers' online activity data.
4/15/2008 Consumer groups urge do not track registry Reuters Diane Bartz Two consumer advocacy groups, the Consumer Federation of America and the Consumers Union, asked in a letter to the Federal Trade Commission for the creation of a "Do Not Track" registry aimed at preventing companies from collecting consumers' online activity data.
4/14/2008 Proposed Privacy Standards Infringe on Rights Online Media Daily Wendy Davis With the possibility of new privacy rules on the horizon, MediaPost reports the Newspaper Association of America is weighing in on the debate. In a letter to the Federal Trade Commission, the NAA says that proposed privacy rules could infringe upon the First Amendment rights of newspapers by restricting advertising, which the association says is a form of free speech.
4/14/2008 Microsoft offers plan for ad data self-regulation E-Commerce News Richard Adhikari Microsoft has provided the Federal Trade Commission with its recommendations for online behavioral advertising self-regulation.
4/14/2008 Proposed Privacy Standards Infringe on Rights Online Media Daily Wendy Davis With the possibility of new privacy rules on the horizon, MediaPost reports the Newspaper Association of America is weighing in on the debate. In a letter to the Federal Trade Commission, the NAA says that proposed privacy rules could infringe upon the First Amendment rights of newspapers by restricting advertising, which the association says is a form of free speech.
4/14/2008 Microsoft offers plan for ad data self-regulation E-Commerce News Richard Adhikari Microsoft has provided the Federal Trade Commission with its recommendations for online be