California bans malicious online impersonation
A new law makes it illegal in California to maliciously impersonate someone online.
Robert McMillan | 29 Sep | Read more
A new law makes it illegal in California to maliciously impersonate someone online.
Robert McMillan | 29 Sep | Read more
People are willing to adjust their ideas about privacy if they can benefit from revealing more of their personal information, the CEO of Infosys Technologies said Thursday.
Fred O'Connor | 24 Sep | Read more
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement with online data broker US Search on complaints that the company failed to deliver on promises that it would not share the records of customers who paid a fee.
Grant Gross | 23 Sep | Read more
Canada's privacy commissioner has ended an investigation into Facebook's privacy practices by saying the social-networking site has resolved issues raised in a May 2008 complaint.
Grant Gross and Robert McMillan | 23 Sep | Read more
A 24-year-old law setting the rules on how law enforcement agencies can obtain electronic records needs to be updated because it's out of step with modern technology and privacy expectations, U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy said Wednesday.
Grant Gross | 23 Sep | Read more
Greens senator, Scott Ludlam, will propose a Senate inquiry’s report into data retention and online privacy be delayed when Parliament next sits.
James Hutchinson | 09 Sep | Read more
Google is spending US$8.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed over the rollout of its Google Buzz social-networking service.
Robert McMillan | 06 Sep | Read more
Moving proprietary legal information to public cloud services is too risky for one services firm, which believes many unanswered questions about how the data is managed remain.
Rodney Gedda | 16 Aug | Read more
German privacy regulators have welcomed a proposal to extend laws protecting Germans' right to privacy to cover use of their own image and that of their homes in online street panoramas, the Hamburg privacy regulator said Monday.
Peter Sayer | 28 Jun | Read more
Location-based services on a mobile phone are terrifically helpful when you need to find a nearby business or directions to the freeway.
Bill Snyder | 29 Jun | Read more
Social-networking giant Twitter has agreed to settle a complaint from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission alleging that the company deceived users and put their privacy at risk by failing to take appropriate security safeguards.
Grant Gross | 25 Jun | Read more
Attention to privacy on Facebook has been intense in recent months after the company made more profile information public by default, added options to its already-complicated privacy settings and introduced features to personalize external Web sites using people's profile information.
Juan Carlos Perez | 05 Jun | Read more
The folks at Facebook just might be wishing today that CEO Mark Zuckerberg just hadn't ... well, said anything about privacy yesterday at the Wall Street Journal 's All Things Digital conference.
Sharon Gaudin | 04 Jun | Read more
Monday is Quit Facebook Day when a number of users around the globe plan to delete their Facebook profiles in protest over recent privacy issues on the world's largest social network.
Facebook's decision to offer end-users simpler options to configure privacy controls on the social-networking site has received an initial thumbs-up from industry experts and privacy watchdogs.
Juan Carlos Perez | 27 May | Read more