The U.S. online advertising industry has not lived up to a promise to stop the online tracking of Internet users who ask advertisers to do so, a senior U.S. senator said Wednesday. Senator John "Jay" Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, ...
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In a testament to the issues surrounding the appropriate use of social media during a tragedy, Reddit is publicly apologizing for the role that it played last week in fueling an online witch hunt that led to identifying an innocent Brown ...
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The U.S. House of Representatives moved closer Wednesday toward the passage of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), despite concerns that the cyberthreat information-sharing bill will allow Web-based companies to share ...
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The White House wants more protection for the privacy of citizens in the latest redraft of the controversial Cyber Information Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA). CISPA, which has been pushed forward by the House Permanent Select ...
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The White House has threatened to veto the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) in its current form, citing concerns that the bill does not adequately prevent sharing of irrelevant personal information. If ...
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), a controversial cyberthreat information-sharing bill, will be debated on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives this week, despite continued opposition from some privacy and ...
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has a warning for organizations that post a lot of business and personal information on public web pages and social media sites: Don't do it. Phishers, the agency said in an alert this week, look ...
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Microsoft today launched a third wave of 'Scroogled,' its attack ad-based campaign aimed at Google, this time highlighting what it said were privacy flaws in the latter's Android app store. "When you buy an Android app from the Google app ...
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Internet companies and privacy advocates appear headed for a fight over a proposal to broaden California's so-called Shine the Light Law, which requires online companies to disclose to consumers how their personal information is used. The ...
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A federal court in Chicago this week granted class action status to a lawsuit accusing comScore, one of the Internet's largest user tracking firms, of secretly collecting and selling Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, passwords ...
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Andrew Auernheimer, a hacker who was convicted last November of illegally accessing emails and other data belonging to 120,000 iPad 3G owners from AT&T's networks is seeking leniency in his sentencing from the court. In a memo filed ...
Google will pay $7 million to settle complaints from dozens of U.S. states about its unauthorized collection of personal data transmitted over Wi-Fi networks. The money will be paid to 37 states and the District of Columbia, which had ...
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Google will pay US$7 million to settle complaints from dozens of U.S. states about its unauthorised collection of personal data transmitted over Wi-Fi networks. The money will be paid to 37 states and the District of Columbia, which had ...
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Before you "like" a friend's or company's post on Facebook, think twice. A new study shows that your Facebook "likes" may be far more revealing than you ever thought. Researchers at the University of Cambridge in the U.K. announced on ...
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Google has struck a deal with US authorities to pay a $US7 million fine for collecting people's personal data without authorization as it combed neighborhoods for its Street View service. In a legal settlement with 38 US States, the ...
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