Tag: Stuff

Google’s Open Web Advocate Talks White House Web ID Plan
As previously reported, the White House is working on a "National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace" or NSTIC, in which it has placed the Commerce Departme...
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Facebook Decides to Rethink Phone Number/Address Sharing
A few days ago, Facebook updated its developer blog with a post called, "Platform Updates: New User Object fields, Ed...
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Facebook Developers Get Access to User Phone Numbers and Addresses
Update: Facebook has decided to rethink its strategy on this, and has temporarily stopped granting access to phone number/address info....
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German Government May Fine Businesses for Using Google Analytics
How much do you rely on web analytics? Probably a great deal, and with good reason. It's incredibly hard to get ahead online without looking at analytics and using that informat...
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South Korean Police Find Google Violated Privacy Laws
Five months ago, local police officers raided Google's offices in South Korea, and what they found may cause quite a lot of trouble for the company.  A police report's indi...
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MySpace Issues User Data Protection Update
New features, celebrity endorsements, and a redesign can only get a site so far.  More than ever, users want to know their private information is safe.  So this week,...
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Google Misses AG’s Street View Deadline
The corporate world tends to slow down this time of year; people take time off, offices close, and product announcements are delayed.  A dispute between Google and the Conn...
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Court Ruling Protects Email Privacy
A ruling by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has determined that the government has to have a search warrant before it can secretly seize and search emails stored by service p...
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Americans Want More Control Over Their Online Information
The majority (90%) of Americans want more control over the information that is available about them online, according to a new survey by Harris Interactive for Intellius...
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New Zealand Concludes Street View Investigation
The lawyers responsible for handling Google's affairs in New Zealand may finally be able to breathe a sigh of relief.  The Privacy Commissioner of New Zealand announced tod...
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CT AG Hits Google With Civil Investigative Demand
The tension over Google's collection of sensitive WiFi data has risen again.  Today, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal issued a civil investigative demand req...
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Facebook Adds More Privacy Controls to Mobile
In August, Facebook brought its privacy controls to browser-enabled mobi...
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South Korean Regulators Go After Facebook
A person might imagine that South Korean authorities would have better things to worry about right now, what with North Korea on the (maybe literal) warpath.  Nonetheless,...
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Anti-Domestic Violence Group Joins Facebook Advisory Board
To be clear: there have been no recent headline-making complaints on the subject, and no signs that Facebook's poised to change anything.  But it looks like Facebook might...
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