Facebook is removing a privacy feature that enables users to remain hidden from searches. Elimination of the "Who can look up your Timeline by name?" setting means Facebook users will no longer have any control of who can look up their ...
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Six privacy groups have asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to strike down proposed changes to Facebook’s policies, as they violate a 2011 settlement with the agency over user privacy. “The changes will allow Facebook to ...
Facebook must pay out $20m (£13m) in damages following a lawsuit about targeted advertising breaching users' privacy, a US Judge has ruled. The case, first brought about in 2011, was based around the fact Facebook's "Sponsored ...
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Five U.S. privacy groups have opposed a proposed US$8.5 million settlement with Google in a class action lawsuit over search privacy, as it fails to require Google to change its business practices, they said. Google was sued in October ...
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New legislation introduced by a group of U.S. lawmakers would require mobile application developers to obtain consent from consumers before collecting their personal data and to secure the data they collect. The Application Privacy, ...
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The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to approve a controversial cyberthreat information-sharing bill, despite opposition from the White House and several privacy and digital rights groups. The House on Thursday voted 288-127 to ...
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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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Less than six week after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a civil rights impact assessment stating that the government needed no warrant or cause to search laptops and other electronic devices at U.S. borders, a federal ...
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Three U.S. lawmakers have introduced a bill to provide more protection from government surveillance for people who store data in the cloud. The Online Communications and Geolocation Protection Act would require U.S. law enforcement ...
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Two U.S. lawmakers plan to reintroduce a controversial cybersecurity bill that allows private companies to share customers' personal information related to a wide range of cyberthreats with government agencies. Representatives Mike ...
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In what is turning out to be a repeat of last year, privacy rights groups launched an assault against the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), barely a day after the controversial legislation was reintroduced in Congress ...
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Two U.S. lawmakers have reintroduced a controversial cyberthreat information-sharing bill over the objections of some privacy advocates and digital rights groups. As promised, Representatives Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican, and C.A. ...
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American technology giants including Google, Yahoo and Amazon have been criticised by privacy groups and European regulators for lobbying in Washington against new EU data privacy laws. The American firms are campaigning for more relaxed ...
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Security guru Professor Ross Anderson has criticised the government's latest plans to make NHS medical records all-electronic, shared not just throughout the NHS, but with care homes and social services, too. Under plans unveiled ...
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Facebook yesterday unveiled its social graph feature dubbed Graph Search, which allows people to use the network as a search engine to find people, photos, places and interests. Further reading Facebook, Google attack MEP report ...
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