Posts belonging to Category Privacy

Google reveals exactly what information its Street View cars collect [Webuser]

Unsurprisingly, a Cornell University student thinks there is not such thing as privacy on the web…so young, so naive…on the web, it’s not about you keeping your own information private, it’s those who you provide your information to keeping it private that’s key [Cornell Sun]

He must be a friend of Mark Zuckerburg’s… [Huffington Post]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has provided us with a timeline of changes to Facebook’s Privacy Policy [EFF]

Details on yesterday’s Senate hearing on the Children’s Online Privacy Protection ACT (COPPA) and the Electronic Privacy Information Center’s recommendations on how the legislation should be amended [Webpronews]

Facebook has incurred Congress’ wrath [TechCrunch]

Oh, and that of users as well…naturally [NY Times]

It should be interesting to see whether Gawker sues CA police after they raided the home of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen – he who allegedly at least had a hand in the deal that sent $5000 to another individual in exchange for a lost iPhone 4 prototype. It seems like it will hinge on whether or not Gawker’s $5000 payment constitutes some type of crime [CNET]

PC Magazine offers five ways Facebook can improve user privacy – none of these should surprise you [PC Magazine]

This Times piece will show you just how much privacy concerns have proliferated thanks to modern technology [NY Times]