Google has added indoor floor plans to the Web version of its Maps service, allowing any device with a browser to show the way in airports, rail stations, shopping malls and museums in nine countries. The indoor maps have previously been ...
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EC vice-president and leader of the digital agenda Neelie Kroes says website owners still need to obtain consent to use cookies,even if web users have browsers that offer'do not track'(DNT). Kroes,who is seeking a way for web users to opt ...
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Some advertising analytics companies are using a vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser for a questionable edge in figuring out if web users are seeing display advertisements buried within web pages. The flaw, if fixed by ...
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Web and mobile device users have little understanding about how much of their personal data is collected online, making it difficult to rely on free-market competition for solutions to privacy concerns, privacy experts told the U.S. Federal ...
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Most UK website users are choosing to allow the use of third-party advertising cookies, according to analysis of the impact of the so-called "cookie law". The UK regulation on the use of cookies, or small files containing browser ...
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Google has joined US government concerns that the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) could get control of the internet through its coming revision of telecoms rules. The UN agency is updating its International Telecommunication ...
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Security researchers from Symantec have identified an information-stealing Trojan program that was used to infect computer servers belonging to various U.S. financial institutions. Dubbed Stabuniq, the Trojan program was found on mail ...
European MPs are the latest grouping to voice concerns that the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) could get control of the internet through its coming revision of telecoms rules. The UN agency is updating its International ...
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Twitter proven to stimulate sales,new study shows. Twitter users who see Tweets from retailers are more likely to make an online purchase,according to results from Twitter's'Tweets in Action:Retail'study. 27 per cent of general ...
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The New York Court of Appeals carved out a rather large exception when it ruled that a man could not be accused of certain child pornography charges because he did not "possess" the images - he'd viewed them online. And in early 2011, the ...
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For 333 people who used "ninja" as a password for Yahoo Mail or another Web service, Thursday was the day their fleet-footed, black-clad cover was blown. A group of hackers calling itself "the D33Ds Company" published a list of 453,492 ...
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The website for the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) now tells visitors it will not honor their browsers' do-not-track requests as a form of protest against the technology pushed by privacy groups and parts of the ...
The online industry doesn't need new privacy legislation because it is doing a good job of protecting users' privacy, an executive of an advertising trade group told U.S. lawmakers Thursday. Even as Senator John "Jay" Rockefeller, ...
The planned introduction of more than 1,900 new generic top-level domain (gTLD) names by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) could have security implications, researchers have warned. The plan to allow web ...
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An online advertising firm accused of spying on the browser histories of consumers has reached a settlement with the U.S.Federal Trade Commission barring it from further browser history sniffing,the agency announced. Epic Marketplace ...
Tags: FTC, bars advertising firm, browser histories, Epic Marketplace, Web users