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Google is offering a new privacy control that will make it easier for people to see some of the information being collected about them.
A former State Department contract employee was sentenced Friday to a year's probation for illegally accessing more than 75 celebrity passport application files.
A Vermont man pleaded guilty Friday to charges he had child pornography on his laptop computer when he entered the United States from Quebec nearly three years ago.
Facebook is shutting down its much-maligned Beacon marketing program, launched nearly two years ago amid fanfare only to generate a storm of privacy complaints over the tracking of user activities at partner Web sites.
Here is a look at some of the things that Rep. Rick Boucher, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet, hopes to put in a bill governing Internet advertising.
The Web sites we visit, the online links we click, the search queries we conduct, the products we put in virtual shopping carts, the personal details we reveal on social networking pages — all of this can give companies insight into what Internet ads we might be interested in seeing.
Facebook agreed Thursday to give users more control over the information they share with outside applications like games and quizzes in response to concerns raised by Canadian privacy officials.
A sixth person who worked at the State Department has pleaded guilty to sneaking a peek at celebrity passport files.
Turns out, Facebook is not your secret diary. If you put your stuff online and invite other people to look at it, other people might do just that. Still, don’t let that stop you from seeking damages.
A fifth State Department worker has been convicted of snooping into the passport files of famous Americans.
British prosecutors say they won't reopen an investigation into a phone-hacking case that saw a tabloid reporter sent to jail.
Canada's privacy commissioner accused Facebook on Thursday of breaching Canadian law by keeping users' personal information indefinitely after members close their accounts.
The publisher of a British tabloid owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch denied on Friday a report that it had accessed the voice mail of celebrities and politicians and tried to suppress evidence of the hacking.
The investigation into who snooped into confidential passport files of famous Americans has resulted in a fourth criminal conviction.
Two out of three Americans are so totally over Michael Jackson news coverage. Well, that’s according to a Pew Research Center survey.
Facebook is overhauling its privacy controls over the next several weeks in an attempt to simplify its users' ability to control who sees the information they share on the site.
The Supreme Court won't stop the state of New Hampshire from making doctors' prescription-writing habits confidential over the objection of companies who analyze and sell that information.
Facebook is testing new privacy controls that will allow the online hangout's roughly 200 million users to decide who should see each of their personal updates.
Google Inc. is willing to concede to German demands the company erase photos for its panoramic mapping service after they have been processed, a data protection official said Wednesday.
A data protection official for Germany said Wednesday that Google had yet to meet a key request that photos gathered for its panoramic mapping service be erased after they are sent to the United States for processing.
Google said Wednesday it will reshoot all photos in Japan for its Street View service after residents complained the 360-degree panoramic images provided a view over the fences around their homes.
A privacy watchdog has banned Google Inc. from gathering detailed, street-level images in Greece for a planned expansion of its panoramic Street View mapping service until the company provides additional privacy safeguards.
Britain's privacy watchdog said Thursday that Google Street View should not be removed or shut down, dismissing concerns that the service was too invasive.
Congress put cable TV operators on notice that it will scrutinize their plans to roll out targeted advertising to viewers, questioning whether they will use set-top boxes sitting in millions of homes to monitor and store what people watch.
The European Union started legal action against Britain on Tuesday for not applying EU data privacy rules that would restrict an Internet advertising tracker, called Phorm, from watching how users surf the web.
My Background I am a computer security professional with a special interest in cryptography. I am also a deeply religious guy, with a strong affinity towards my beliefs. This article is to put out my views about privacy from a religious perspective.
Now For Sale at Fire Sale Prices: Thousands of People's GenomesDeCode Genetics, a genome sequencing and drug development company, found out the hard way that predicting disease risk simply by reading someone's genes isn't so straightforward. On Tuesday, deCode filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware.
An out-of-sight, out-of-mind thing may be going on with your medical samples which are being submitted to the laboratory…they may be getting sold for a profit, or worse…! This is an issue at the level of the large national "send-out" laboratories, not the local hospital …
Using relative's DNA cracks crime, but privacy questions raisedDenver, Colorado (CNN) -- Using DNA to catch criminals has become common, but Denver police this year demonstrated how the practice can be taken to a new level: They tracked down a suspect not through his DNA, but through that of his brother.
Senator goes after Web membership clubsThe U.S. Congress needs to take action to protect consumers tricked into signing up for membership clubs that charge a monthly fee when they buy products or services from other Web sites, the chairman of a U.S. Senate committee said Tuesday.
Two German Killers Demanding Anonymity Sue Wikipedia's ParentWolfgang Werlé and Manfred Lauber became infamous for killing a German actor in 1990. Now they are suing to force Wikipedia to forget them.
Good-bye Privacy - Hello Health PoliceThe health care reform bill that passed the senate should be of great concern to Americans who value their right to privacy. People please take the time and effort to read the bill so you will be accuratly informed as to what the powers that be are trying to do to us.
Privacy Concerns Over UK Tracking Phone Calls, Texts, Emails, Online UseEvery phone call, text message, email and website visit made by Britons is to be stored for a year and will be available for monitoring by government bodies.
Stop and search laws pass Lower HouseLegislation proposing greater search powers for police has passed the Lower House of State Parliament after a lengthy and fierce debate.
Feds Wanted Private Data on All Visitors to Liberal News SiteA Justice Department subpoena requesting information on visitors to an independent news site is raising serious privacy concerns.
How Prosecutors Wiretap Wall StreetHearing that the alleged Raj Rajaratnam-led insider trading ring was detected using wiretaps and that the U.S.
Justice Dept. Asked For News Site's Visitor Lists In a case that raises questions about online journalism and privacy rights, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a formal request to an independent news site ordering it to provide details of all reader visits on a certain day.
Legislation to access public's texts and emails put on holdPlans for a £2bn Home Office surveillance project to track details of everyone's email, mobile phone, text and internet use have been put on hold after a consultation raised concerns over its technical feasibility, costs and privacy safeguards.
Nuclear workers asked to spy on colleagues' lives'Orwellian' moves aimed at reducing blackmail risk
UK internet surveillance plan to go aheadThe Home Office says it will push ahead with plans to ask communications firms to monitor all internet use. Ministers confirmed their intention despite concerns and opposition from some in the industry.
Obama Wants Control Of The InternetThe internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama's administration refused to disclose due to "national security" concerns, has leaked. It's bad.
Tories will scrap 'pre-crime' vettingAn incoming Conservative government would take steps to cut the vetting database down to size and would balk at 'pre-crime' behavioural vetting techniques.
Obama's latest use of "secrecy" to shield presidential lawbreaking: What was once depicted as a grave act of lawlessness -- Bush's NSA program -- is now deemed a vital state secret. The Obama administration has, yet again, asserted the broadest and most radical version of the "state secrets" privilege -- which previously caused so much controversy and turmoil among loyal Democrats (when used by Bush/Cheney) -- to attempt to block courts from ruling on the le …
Virginia witch hunt: The naked truth about American sexual pruderyIsn't a man's (or woman's) home his castle? The next significant thing that happened to 29-year-old Eric Williamson was the local cops arriving to charge him with indecent exposure.
Privacy is dead, and social media hold smoking gun - CNN.comGreat article on how privacy is changing due to Social Media
German luxury carmaker Daimler slammed for controversial blood tests on potential employeeGerman luxury carmaker Daimler has come under fire for carrying out blood tests on potential employees. A leading privacy advocate has condemned the practice as illegal and called for the information to be deleted.
Gay marriage fights fuel debate over petitioners' rightsThe Supreme Court voted last week to block release of the names of more than 138,000 people in Washington state who signed petitions seeking to repeal a same-sex domestic partner law in a ballot scheduled for Nov. 3.
BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Your stories: 'I felt the world was coming to an end'School pupils affected by the earthquake in Padang, Indonesia, have been sending their stories to BBC News 'Hunger to Learn'.
Microchip Implant to Link Your Health Records, Credit History, Social Security..pill-popping habits...etc.Novartis and Proteus Biomedical are not the only companies hoping to implant microchips into patients so that their pill-popping habits can be monitored.
Without warrants, police use trackers to follow suspectsMultiple local law enforcement agencies are using satellite-based tracking devices, without warrants, to keep a record of where and when suspects under investigation drive.
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