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Google ignites debate about privacy

FAC August 20, 2010

Internet giant Google has sparked a fiery privacy debate this week by claiming future teenagers will need to change their names when they reach adulthood to escape embarrassing online pasts. The Courier Mail August 20, 2010 By Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson In a warning experts have labelled hypocritical, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said the company knew “roughly who you are, roughly what you care about, roughly who your friends are”, and the implications of sharing that information

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Domestic spying: Uncle Sam developing ability to reach wide and deep on Internet

donal brown August 19, 2010

Through its Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has revealed that the FBI and CIA are aggressively perfecting their ability to probe social networks and the Internet for intelligence data much of which is outside the law enforcement context. -db Electronic Frontier Foundation Commentary August 16, 2010 By Tim Wayne In the midst of recent controversies over Facebook’s privacy settings, it’s easy to forget how much personal information is available from other

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Google CEO: Online Anonymity Is Dangerous

FAC August 11, 2010

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has said anonymity on the Internet is dangerous, according to a report in the Huffington Post. August 11, 2010 By International Business Times In an interview with CNBC conducted at the Techonomy conference earlier this month, Schmidt offered an additional look at his views on online privacy and  anonymity, says the report. Arguing that anonymity on the Internet is dangerous, Schmidt had reportedly said, “In a world of asynchronous threats, it

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Privacy Groups Call for Microsoft Investigation

FAC August 6, 2010

Privacy groups have asked Congress to investigate Microsoft in the wake of a Wall Street Journal investigation of Web tracking and targeting. News Broadcasting and Cable August 6, 2010 By John Eggerton Led by the Center for Digital Democracy, a half-dozen consumer watchdog groups sent letters to the heads of the relevant Senate and House oversight committees calling for an investigation of Microsoft’s decision to require users of its 2008 iteration of Explorer to have

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Facebook brings privacy settings to mobile web

FAC August 4, 2010

Facebook, which has taken a public relations beating in the past over privacy issues, has enhanced the mobile version of its site to include access to privacy settings. ZDNet News/Internet August 4, 2010 By Sam Diaz This move follows an overhaul to the settings that the company rolled out in May, largely in response to criticisms about what was being shared in the past and how much control users had over managing the sharing. In

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