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• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Google Dashboard Gives You a Degree of Control Google is putting all your account info on a single page, hoping to calm fears about its intentions. But not everyone is convinced.
• Google Dashboard: Good -- But More Explanation, Please Google's Dashboard utility is a great first step toward transparency, but it doesn't go far enough.
• Google Dashboard: A Closer Look Google Dashboard allows you to manage your Google digital life. Here is a closer look at how it works.
• PeerBlock Helps You Surf the Web in Secret Take your system off the grid--as far as the bad guys are concerned--with free utility PeerBlock.
• Google Dashboard Bows to Users’ Privacy Concerns Google Dashboard puts all your Google account data in one place and lets you manage it.
• Feds Can Search Your E-Mail Without Notice, Judge Rules Only the ISP must be served with a search warrant to let law enforcement search your virtual mailbox, a federal judge says.
• Are Flash Cookies Devouring Your Privacy? Small Flash files can track your online movements, and they don’t vanish when you delete normal tracking cookies.
• Hotmail Passwords Made Public, Site Claims Thousands of usernames and passwords for Windows Live Hotmail accounts were leaked online late last week, according to a report by Neowin.net.
• NotAwesome Firefox Add-On Selectively Hides Your History Hide sensitive bookmarks from appearing in the AwesomeBar with NotAwesome.
• Get a free, disposable phone number from inumbr If you need to publish a phone number online, don't use your real one. This terrific service generates temporary numbers that protect your privacy.
• Hospital Tweets Get out of Hand Med students on social networks get careless about revealing patient information, study finds.
• Bank Sues Google for Gmail User's Identity After the bank accidentally sent confidential information on more than a thousand customers to the wrong Gmail address, it wants to know who reads that account.
• Meet Google's 'Data Liberation Front' Google has announced a "Data Liberation Front" designed to make it easier for you to reclaim your data from the company's Web-based services.
• Too Much Online Sharing May Haunt You, Study Warns Most young Web-users don't care about the length of their "digital tattoos" but Symantec says they may come to regret it.
• Is Your Health Privacy at Risk? Hospitals, pharmacies and health insurance companies are among the hardest hit when it comes to hacker attacks, stolen laptops, spying employees and other...
• Facebook Users Forefeit their Security, Poll Shows Only a third of social networkers apply the security safeguards they've been given, a security firm finds.
• Facebook Cleans Up, but Apps Must Change Analysis: The redux brings more privacy for users, and less freedom for developers
• Thanks, Canada: Facebook's 4 Big Privacy Fixes Canadian courts are pushing Facebook to clarify and enforce privacy issues that we should've demanded earlier -- but we still have a wish list.