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Privacy issues hit Facebook again - 
Privacy issues are again at the center of debate over whether Facebook is doing enough to protect its users.
- Found: 19 hours ago

Privacy Issues Hit Facebook Again, 171 Million Affected - 
Privacy issues are the Achilles heel of Facebook, and today, a report of more than 170 million personal profiles with secure information has apparently been leaked to the public. More from this developing story covered earlier on ThirdAge... ...Personal profile information for more than 171 million Facebook users was snatched from the U.S. social-networking Web site and published online. The ...
- Found: 23 hours ago

Privacy Commissioner launches Go Card review - 
Queensland's privacy commissioner has launched a review of the way police access Go Card passenger records, following public concern over the practice.
- Found: 2010-07-30, 06:08 GMT

'Privacy pasties' sold to fliers embarrassed by full-body scanners at airports - 
'Privacy pasties' sold to fliers embarrassed by full-body scanners at airports
- Found: 2010-07-29, 14:52 GMT

Feds Pushing for Stronger Privacy While You Shop Online [Privacy] - 
# privacy Congress is getting behind a policy "rethink" regarding online privacy, including the implementation of an FTC-enforced "Do Not Track" list. Such a list would allow shoppers to opt-out of advertising and behavioral tracking that follows customers from item to item. More »
- Found: 21 hours ago

Privacy Bill Contention Evident at House Hearing - 
clickz At a House hearing on privacy legislation, business and consumer groups revealed key areas of contention that could affect online advertisers.
- Found: 2010-07-29, 17:08 GMT

FBI access to e-mail, Web data raises privacy fear - 
Invasion of privacy in the Internet age. Expanding the reach of law enforcement to snoop on e-mail traffic or on Web surfing. Those are among the criticisms being aimed at the FBI as it tries to update a key surveillance law.
- Found: 22 hours ago

'Give commuters privacy' - 
Privacy commissioner urges TransLink to be upfront about police use of travel data.
- Found: 2010-07-29, 21:10 GMT

Students finally wake up to Facebook privacy issues - 
Students care about Facebook privacy more than the world thinks, and their use of privacy controls has skyrocketed recently, according to two researchers. Eszter Hargittai, Associate Professor of Northwestern University, and Danah Boyd, Research Associate at Harvard?s Berkman Center for Internet & Society published their findings in the online peer-reviewed journal First Monday , noting that ...
- Found: 17 hours ago

Congress ponders privacy of your underwear, immortal soul - 
At a Congressional Internet privacy hearing on Tuesday, a group of middle-aged men had some questions about the 'Net. Why was it such a creepy place? How come replying to spammers doesn't get one immediately removed from their e-mail lists? And what is this talk we hear about websites gaining the rights to one's immortal soul? The creepiness was best summed up by the Senate Commerce Committee's ...
- Found: 2010-07-29, 21:53 GMT