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A Congressional hearing on Tuesday investigating inadvertent file sharing over peer-to-peer networks unexpectedly put a spotlight on LimeWire Chairman Mark Gorton over the government and personal information that can be acquired over P2P networks without users' knowledge. Gorton's company makes the ...
Yahoo became the latest major Internet search provider to alter its user privacy policy Monday. Under the new plan, the company said, it will anonymize search histories after only 13 months, five months earlier than its search competitors at Google, Microsoft and Ask.com. "One of the core tenets of ...
Microsoft announced Sunday a new set of privacy principles for Live Search and online advertising data collection, use and protection. The principles delineate newly enhanced steps the company will implement to protect the privacy of Windows Live users. Chief among the revamped privacy directives is...
First Jeeves got the old heave-ho; now Ask.com is ready to give user data the boot as well. In an apparent effort to one-up its much larger competitors in the field of user privacy, Ask.com unveiled its new AskEraser, a utility that the company said "will offer its searchers unmatched control over t...
Google's decreased the length of time and amount of information the company holds on users' preferences and searches Monday with the announcement that it will shorten the lifespan of the small parcels of information it stores on users' computers, known as "cookies." The lifespan of Google's cookies ...
Drivers have become accustomed to security cameras that catch a license plate number when someone violates a traffic law at toll booths and even stoplights. However, the lowly traffic camera is sparking a whole new debate in its role as part of the homeland security initiative that the New York Poli...
The European Union's Justice and Home Affairs Commissioner, Franco Frattini, gave a thumbs-up to Google's offer to cut the time it keeps identifiable search user data down from 24 months to 18 months. Frattini's comments came Wednesday during a news conference in Luxembourg. "I think it is indeed a ...
Under pressure from the European Union's Data Protection Working Party, search giant Google said it will "anonymize" its search server logs after 18 months. However, Google also stressed it will never alter the data sooner than 18 months after its creation and will comply with laws that could requir...
A London-based privacy advocacy group, Privacy International, has ranked the world's No. 1 search engine company worse in protecting customer privacy than any of nearly two dozen other major Internet-based companies. "Throughout our research, we have found numerous deficiencies and hostilities in Go...
After a brief showdown last week with a group of attorneys general, MySpace announced Monday that it will give the group the information it requested about registered sex offenders with profiles on the site. The attorneys general delivered a subpoena to the social networking site on the same day. W...
For the second time this year, hackers have victimized the University of Missouri. The names and Social Security numbers of 22,396 current or former students who were employed by UM during 2004 may have been compromised, according to university officials. The hacker or hackers reportedly gained acce...
Google is partnering with the states of Arizona, California, Utah and Virginia in a joint effort to make it easier for people to find public information via the Web. In announcing the arrangements, Google said the deals reflect a recognition that people are often frustrated by the inability of Web s...
When Google announced Wednesday that it will adopt new privacy measures designed to make it harder to connect searches with the individuals who request them, it promoted the move as a big step. Whereas last year the search engine giant went head-to-head with the U.S. Department of Justice over just ...
Internet search giant Google announced Wednesday it will take steps to improve the way it handles data obtained as millions of consumers search for products and information online. Within the next year, the company said, Google will change its privacy policy and begin deleting personally identifiab...
Chip and PIN is a UK government-backed security measure that requires customers to present both a four-digit PIN and a bank card containing a smart chip in order to complete a purchase. Backers argued that the system offers a much higher level of security than previous schemes. Also, they claimed th...
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