Tag: Stuff

Facebook Wins Battle in Germany Over Real Names Policy
Facebook has won a court challenge in Germany that will see its real names policy upheld in the country. Back in December, Germany's data protection office Unabhaengiges Landes...
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Facebook: Our Policies Regarding Minors Carry Over to Graph Search
We've already covered how Facebook's new Graph Search feature may cause some...
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Valentine’s Day ‘Scroogled’ Video Has A Google ‘Cyborg’ Reading People’s Mail
As you may know, Microsoft recently resurrected its "Scroogled" campaign against Google, attacking Gmail in the latest round. More on the campaign...
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Should You Be Concerned About The Return Of CISPA?
On Wednesday of last week, we heard that the House Intelligence Committee was...
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Yes, Facebook May Owe You $10; That Email Isn’t a Scam
Million and millions of U.S. Facebook users received an email last weekend that read LEGAL NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT OF CLASS ACTION - just like that, in all caps. It says that "a feder...
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House Intelligence Committee Collaborating With Obama Administration On New CISPA
CISPA was one of the more worrisome Internet-related bills of 2012. It threatened the online...
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Path Settles With FTC Over Privacy Issues
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced today that Path has agreed to settle FTC charges that it deceived users by collecting personal info from mobile device address books wit...
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Mozilla Was Most Trusted Internet Company For Privacy In 2012
January 28 is Data Privacy Day. It's a topic that has become increasingly more important in recent years as more of our information moves to the Internet. Consumers are largely unt...
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Twitter Launches New Transparency Report Home, Releases Second Report
Twitter announced today that it is launching a new Transparency Report home page at transparency.twitter.com. The announcement comes...
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Google Facing Legal Action In UK Over ‘Safari-Gate’
Google continues to deal with the fallout from "Safari-gate" privacy scandal that...
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Dallas Police Succeed in Clearing the Streets of Rogue Fruit
It's good advice for anyone to check their sharing settings on any app before they use it - unless people want every high score, game achievement, or check-in to appear on their co...
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Google Outlines What It’s Doing To Protect Your Data From The Government
With today being Data Privacy Day, Google took to several of its blogs to outline three initiatives it says it is focused on, related to privacy as it pertains to protection of con...
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Facebook’s ‘Ask Our CPO’ Privacy Dialogue Launches in the Wake of the Death of the User Vote
Prior to mid-December of last year, Facebook ran a program that asked users to vote on any prospective changes to the site's policies, mainly the Statement of Right and Responsibil...
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The Web Can Be A Dangerous Place: Learn To Protect Yourself
Malware, phishing scams and other dangerous entities are all over t...
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Advocacy Groups Ask Skype To Release Transparency Report
Skype was embroiled in a mini-controversy last year when reports came out claiming that...
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