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• Five Things You Need to Know About Social Engineering Social engineering is growing up. Social engineering, the act of tricking people into giving up sensitive information, is nothing new. Convicted hacker Kevin...
• Firefox Addon PrivacyChoice Opt-Out Keeps Ad Networks Away From Your Web Habits PrivacyChoice Opt-Out protects your privacy by opting out of privacy-invading ad networks.
• Supreme Court to Rule on Employee Privacy The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving the expectation of privacy in the workplace. The decision could impact privacy and compliance efforts across the nation.
• On Privacy, Google and Facebook Are Much The Same Both companies face privacy challenges and upset users as they try to balance privacy and commercial interest. Who does best?
• Mozilla Endorses Bing Over Google Privacy Issues A Mozilla executive suggested Firefox users move to Bing for search functions, citing concerns over Google's stance on privacy.
• Facebook and Google: Contrasts in Privacy Facebook and Google have both been faced with privacy concerns, and the responses have been polar opposite from the two entities.
• Facebook Privacy Changes: The Good and the Bad Facebook's powerful new privacy tools can be a double-edge sword. Here is a look at the pros and cons.
• Google's Schmidt Roasted for Privacy Comments Watchdog Electronic Frontier Foundation accuses Google of not understanding the value of privacy.
• Protect Your Privacy With the New Facebook Settings Facebook's updated privacy settings give you more control over your information with less work.
• Facebook's New Privacy Settings: 5 Things You Should Know New settings are supposed to make it easier to control who sees your information, but they're not always as clear as they should be.
• Guard Your Online Privacy With the TrackerWatcher Firefox Addon See what information sites gather about you--and how they use it--with TrackerWatcher.
• Facebook Halts Beacon, Gives $9.5M to Settle Lawsuit Facebook shutters program that sparked a lawsuit alleging privacy violations, and funnels $9.5 million into a fund that will support online privacy, safety and security.
• Facebook Users Fall for Rubber Duck's Friend Request Facebook users haven't learned to keep their personal information private, a security researcher said this week.
• Google Public DNS and Your Privacy Google's expanding its grasp on the Internet with a newly revealed DNS resolving service. Here's a detailed look at what the system will collect from you and how that data will be used.
• Online Privacy Campaign Site Kicks Off The Center for Democracy and Technology today launched a new Take Back Your Privacy site to help push for better privacy laws and controls.
• Sprint Downplays Report It Shared GPS Data With Feds Sprint Nextel is downplaying a blog report that it provided law enforcement authorities with customer GPS location data more than eight million times.
• Sprint Makes Goverment Tracking of GPS Data Easy Sprint handed over info on customer locations 8 million times last year. So where's the outrage?
• Why Privacy Concerns are Ruining Facebook Facebook is taking new steps to protect your privacy, including eliminating regional networks. But I think the site is going too far.
• How to Lose Your Identity This Holiday Season Looking to expose your personal data to online thieves? Follow these five easy steps — or better yet, use them as a cautionary tale.
• Sleazy Marketing Ploys Not a Concern to Online Merchants Orbitz, Priceline, and United Online seem to believe that if a consumer gets confused by their offers and signs up without intending to, it’s the consumer’s fault.
• The Google-TiVo Deal: What It Means For You Google and TiVo are teaming up for a new deal that'll put your clicking habits into the hands of advertisers. Here's a look at how the program will work.
• Keep Your Passwords Private--and Handy--With LastPass An online airing of tens of thousands of stolen Webmail passwords suggests that it’s time to find extra protection.
• Chrome OS: Google's Big Brother Fetish Continues If Google Chrome OS supplants Windows in a meaningful way, then we can kiss our privacy goodbye.
• Google's Swiss Street View Battle Highlights Privacy Challenge Google is being sued in Switzerland over privacy concerns related to Street View. This issue illustrates the larger problem Google faces balancing information and privacy.
• Google Dashboard: Your Services, All in One Place View a demo of Google's new Web page where you can see how just how much of their data Google stores.