As Phorm Inc. built a system that watches consumers' Web surfing in order to deliver targeted advertising, CEO Kent Ertugrul believed the British company was doing everything possible to respect, and actually enhance, Internet privacy. Complete Story...
A European Union privacy panel wants Internet search engine providers like Google and Yahoo to delete data taken from users after six months, even when they operate abroad.
State Department workers viewed passport applications containing personal information about high-profile Americans, including the late Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith, at least 20 times since January 2007, The Associated Press has learned.
Facebook Inc. is tweaking the privacy settings on its popular online hangout to let users exert greater control over which of their friends are allowed to see personal details they post.
European data privacy regulators confirmed Thursday that Internet search engines based outside Europe must also comply with EU rules on how a person's Internet address or search history is stored.
When Sebastien Boucher stopped at the U.S.-Canadian border, agents who inspected his laptop said they found files containing child pornography.
Three out of four Europeans are worried about posting their personal information on the Internet.
In a Jan. 21 story about data privacy, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Microsoft Corp. does not record Internet Protocol addresses that could be used to identify which computer made a search request. Microsoft does remove the identifying IP address from its long-term records but only after 18 months.
Millions of fingers scurrying over mobile electronic devices probably paused this week as news emerged of a trove of text messages containing flirty and sexually explicit chat between Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and a top aide. Even those engaging in more wholesome dialogue would be wise to wonder: Do text messages disappear — like oral conversations — or are they permanently logged somewhere for potential retrieval — like e-mail usually is?
Millions of fingers scurrying over mobile electronic devices probably paused this week as news emerged of a trove of text messages containing flirty and sexually explicit chat between Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and a top aide.
IP addresses, string of numbers that identify computers on the Internet, should generally be regarded as personal information, the head of the European Union's group of data privacy regulators said Monday.
About 5,000 taxpayers may have received a state tax form in the mail with their Social Security numbers mistakenly visible, producing a risk of identity theft, authorities said.
When operators of sex-oriented Web sites gather at the Internext convention starting Sunday in Las Vegas, a major leak at a little New Jersey company is likely to be a big topic.
A second printing gaffe in a little more than a year caused about 260,000 Social Security numbers to be put on the outside of envelopes and mailed from a state agency, stunning recipients concerned about the risk of identity theft.
Tax preparers will have to make the fine print a little less fine and obtain customer consent for offshore work under new Internal Revenue Service rules aimed at giving taxpayers more control over their private information.
Individual privacy is under threat around the world as governments continue introducing surveillance and information-gathering measures, according to an international rights group.
A federal judge has ruled that a new Maine law making doctors' prescription-writing habits confidential violates the Constitution.
European lawmakers plan to take the unusual step of pressing antitrust regulators next month to look at privacy concerns raised by Google Inc.'s intended takeover of online ad tracker DoubleClick.
Some popular online retailers don't do enough either to inform customers how their personal information could be used or to give them control over it, according to a public interest research group.
Hoping to establish itself as the Internet's least intrusive search engine, Ask.com is empowering people to prevent their search requests from being deposited in data banks.
A federal patient privacy rule has had a chilling effect on medical research, making it tougher to recruit patients and use their health records, the first national survey on the topic suggests.
A panel on Internet names voted Wednesday to defer long-simmering questions on whether names, phone numbers and other private information on domain name owners should remain public in open, searchable databases called Whois.
A panel on Internet names voted Wednesday to conduct further studies on the databases containing names, phone numbers and other private information on domain name owners, deferring long-simmering questions over whether such details should remain public.
A coalition of privacy groups Wednesday called for creation of a "Do Not Track List," that would prohibit advertisers from tracking online movements of consumers.
The government plans to begin collecting DNA samples from anyone arrested by a federal law enforcement agency — a move intended to prevent violent crime but which also is raising concerns about the privacy of innocent people.
In an article in The New England Journal of Medicine, two leading researchers warn that the entry of big companies like Microsoft and Google into the field of personal health records could drastically alter the practice of clinical research and raise new challenges to the privacy …
Online advert system Phorm could make the net less secure and breaches human rights, the service's creators have been told.
Employers would be able to read their staff's emails under proposed new national security laws being considered by the Federal Government.
One excerpt: I have no real idea about the deep intentions of the founders and owners of Facebook, but some of their quotes in the article are alarming if predictable.
Q. Our landlord and his wife are very very nice people. They helped us a lot and I don't want to make anyone mad. She is always coming down to my place, for hours like anywhere between 5-8 hours each time she comes down. Their 5 year old son is a huge brat.
scroogle is an alternative to google. google apparently tracks and keeps data of every search you ever made, and all you gmail becomes accessible after 180 days (no longer private! un usa....etc!. read this page and see what they're talking about---it's rather scarey .
Various children's advocacy organizations in the United Kingdom are calling for a ban on employers looking at prospective employees' Facebook pages, citing data protection laws.
Do RIAA investigators need a license? The group says no, but some states appear to disagree. Judges may settle the issue in the next few weeks.
It will come as no surprise to anyone who has used the internet that online search engines retain a history of our previous searches and the identity of our computer. Indeed, it often makes our life easier to find that a page we have previously visited remembers us.
The Internal Revenue Service has left sensitive taxpayer information vulnerable to disgruntled IRS employees, contractors or hackers, according to independent auditors.
One more tax-season dread: A week before the filing deadline, Treasury watchdogs said Monday that poor controls over IRS computers could allow a disgruntled employee, agency contractor or outside hacker to steal taxpayers' confidential information.
I thought this would just be a story about paranoid person but IT IS NOT look at it. The ability to stalk on the net is a bad idea.
BT Broadband has admitted that it carried out secret trials on 18,000 user accounts in autumn 2006 with technology from 121Media, which became the targeted advertising company Phorm.
In 1993, the dawn of the Internet age, the liberating anonymity of the online world was captured in a well-known New Yorker cartoon. One dog, sitting at a computer, tells another: "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." Fifteen years later, that anonymity is gone.
The online behavior of a small but growing number of computer users in the United States is monitored by their Internet service providers, who have access to every click and keystroke that comes down the line.
This week marks an important, but not very publicized, admission by the Department of Homeland Security that the attempts to institute a National ID card may well be out of their reach.
Only a week after fears were raised about the privacy implications of advertising service, Phorm, which monitors broadband users' internet usage in order to target relevant advertising at them (reported in 'In the News' on 27 March 2008), telecoms company, BT, has been accused of …
The two Sacramento sheriff detectives tailed their suspect, Rolando Gallego, at a distance. They did not have a court order to compel him to give a DNA sample, but their assignment was to get one anyway — without his knowledge.
The military is using the FBI to skirt legal restrictions on domestic surveillance to obtain private records of Americans' Internet service providers, financial institutions and telephone companies, according to Pentagon documents.
Congress might want to evaluate whether the Homeland Security Department's plan to use domestic spy satellites for counterterrorism and law enforcement is worth the cost and the risks to privacy, according to a new report from the Congressional Research Service.
The mandatory Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems (TPMS) on new cars have uniquely identified wireless transmitters that can be used to automatically ID cars from a distance.
When delegates to the Republican National Convention assembled in New York in August 2004, the streets and sidewalks near Union Square and Madison Square Garden filled with demonstrators. Police officers in helmets formed barriers by stretching orange netting across intersections.
When delegates to the Republican National Convention assembled in New York in August 2004, the streets and sidewalks near Union Square and Madison Square Garden filled with demonstrators. Police officers in helmets formed barriers by stretching orange netting across intersections.
Lawyers representing (New York City) in lawsuits filed by hundreds of people arrested during the convention asked Mr. Hirsch to hand over voluminous records revealing the content of messages exchanged on his service and identifying people who sent and received messages. Mr.