Gone are the days when all you were concerned with was whether or not your résumé and cover letter were error-free.

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NLPC has uncovered a plan by the White House New Media operation to hire a technology vendor to conduct a massive, secret effort to harvest personal information on millions of Americans from social networking websites.

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Insurance companies have some advice for you: keep your vacation plans to yourself!

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Elance Security Failure -- since July, Elance has had two massive flaws in their site that has resulted in user compromised user info...

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Elena Castro was finishing the paperwork to buy her first home when the bank called to warn her of a problem — nearly $10,000 in unpaid hospital bills on her credit report. The charges were for several ear, nose and throat procedures done at hospitals in her region.

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DHS to collect more information on people that access their facilities. They want your maiden name, mother's maiden name, clearance level, identifying physical information, financial history, duty date, and weapons-bearer designation.

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If you're donating, selling, or just looking to dispose of your old cell phone, you should wipe it clean first. And, we're not talking about washing it.

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A U.C. Berkeley report shows that most Internet users don't understand web site privacy policies, and that major online businesses like Google Inc. freely gather data and share it with affiliated businesses via loopholes in those policies. (via American Libraries Direct)

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----Video on left side, near the top of article on link page.---- Are you tweeting right now? Better be careful because a tweet about your whereabouts could leave you vulnerable.

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While Web quizzes may be fun to take, they're also a powerful tool for companies to collect your data and even your money -- and often in ways you might not notice. (via American Libraries Direct)

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With the Internet came a whole new kind of menace. Rather than having become a vehicle to share information the Net has become a vehicle in which individuals have been provided with the tools to freely libel, harass, stalk, defame and defraud others without fear of prosecution.

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APOPKA, Fla. -- A father didn't expect his purchase of a laptop computer for his daughter to include pornography. Terry Harbor bought the computer from Value Pawn in Apopka for his 13-year-old daughter. He hoped it would provide some entertainment and assist her with homework.

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A foreign hacker gained access to a University of Florida computer system containing the personal information of more than 97,200 students, faculty and staff, UF announced Thursday.

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An area woman recently found out that it doesn't take much to create a fake profile page on a site like Facebook. Gabriela Cezar, an acclaimed stem cell researcher, created a Facebook account about a year ago to network.

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Well... THIS breach notification was buried, now wasn't it?

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-- Florida officials are investigating a letter sent by a Florida inmate to a Panama City high school student. Sheriff's officials say the 16-year-old received a threatening letter Thursday from 61-year-old Macon Higgs, who was convicted of first degree murder in 1971.

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A Deltona woman said her identity was stolen and the thief used her name during an arrest Tuesday. The victim, Thelma Jean Wiloch, said because of the mistake she could go to jail.

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TAMPA, Fla., Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Hundreds of election questionnaires containing personal information about voters were found Monday beside a highway ramp in Tampa, Fla., an official said.

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"State and local officials are investigating if state and law-enforcement computer systems were illegally accessed when they were tapped for personal information about "Joe the Plumber."

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U.S. corporations, governments and universities reported a record 516 consumer data breaches in the first nine months of this year, incidents prompted chiefly by hackers and employee theft, according to a report released today by a nonprofit group that works to prevent fraud.

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History is ambiguous about government willingness to protect private life, but a few recommendations can help keep its future secure

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Michael Fertik wants to wipe your personal details off the Web. He's finding out just how difficult it is to protect privacy

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If Google were the U.S. government, the data that streams into Nicholas Fox's laptop every day would be classified as top secret.

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Some ordinary people, politicians, celebrities, companies or brands simply want pieces of their past concealed, or, ideally, wiped off the public record.

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Gregory writes in to point out that Facebook does a lousy job of monitoring the development of its third-party Platform applications—and in fact many of them are written so badly that they can be easily hacked.

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