Privacy News

Your personal data is out there. Every thought you tap out on Twitter, every status update you post on Facebook, and even the last credit card purchase you made is accessible via the Internet.

A grave threat is said to be stalking Europe. No, it isn't the financial crisis and the potential demise of the euro.

You are a hard-working lawyer. You have just finished a long trial, deal or other matter and decide to take a vacation.

Clearly, iOS is a massive, continuing success. But a couple recent headlines got us thinking about improvements Apple could make to the overall iOS experience: Path was publicly harangued after it was discovered that its app uploaded the entirety of users' address books to Path's servers.

It's once again time to show a little love for the Fourth Amendment, an integral part of the Bill of Rights, but one that has been neglected by constitutional conservatives who remain focused on the Second and Tenth Amendments.

When Google announced impending changes to its privacy policy, users and the media alike were focused on one thing: the inability to opt-out, short of deleting your account.

Accounting for the $9 million settlement resulted in a 14 percent decrease in the fourth-quarter net income that Netflix Inc.

Netflix pressed the rewind button on its fourth-quarter earnings after settling allegations that the video subscription service violated a consumer-privacy law.

When Facebook began readying its IPO at the beginning of this month, the social network's S-1 regulatory filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission ticked off a list of potential risk factors - among them, global data privacy regulations that could impact the business.

Civil liberties groups were on the Hill Thursday to warn of the dangers they say cybersecurity proposals could pose to privacy and other civil rights, Nextgov reported.

Smartphones are offering divorce lawyers a treasure trove of evidence for cases, highlighting the lack of privacy on mobile devices.

Written on a flight from Belfast to Stansted and dispatched to silicon.com a day later from a coffee shop on London's Pall Mall via a free wi-fi service at 6.8Mbps. When I was a child, the UK enjoyed social norms inherited from its Edwardian and Victorian past.

Google says it will study this in order to improve its products and services. Forbes points out that $25 in Amazon credits isn't quite enough to buy a six pack of Marshmallow Fluff ." The money isn't much as a pure trade for privacy, but I suspect that many people would like to have their preferences be among those that shape how Google - and other ... (more)

The controversial alarm fee ordinance is back on the table in Tucson. And today, the Arizona Alarm Association was in town to endorse the plan.

European regulators don't always agree about what Net companies should do to protect the privacy of their users.

A privacy debate surrounding fledgling social network Path went viral this week, triggering discussions on blogs and on Twitter about how far social networks can go in using members' private data.

As Google's new privacy policy goes into effect, Abine's Do Not Track Plus gives consumers the ability to block tracking and stop profiling; more than one-million downloads achieved before con... /PRNewswire/ -- Abine, the leading provider of online privacy solutions for consumers looking to regain control over their personal information, announced ... (more)

Korean authorities considering regulatory action Planned changes to Google's privacy policy are raising concerns about the safety of personal data around the world.

WHAT makes Facebook worth $100 billion? In the words of one EU spokesman, "it's quite simple: Facebook has 850 million users, and it wants to sell their stuff to advertisers.

The associate dean for undergraduate studies at the Annenberg School for Communication startled his audience at the Penn Book Store last night, revealing the vulnerability of web surfing as he presented his new book, The Daily You.