Topic: Internet Privacy
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Fake identities: Manti Te'o scandal and 6 other Internet hoaxes
Believe it or not, the Manti Te'o scandal is not the first online identity hoax, nor the longest-standing. Here's a look at some of the biggest scams to surface on the Internet, from the lives and deaths of fictitious characters to the downfall of their makers.
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Tyler Clementi and cyberbullying: how courts ruled in five other cases
The trial for the roommate of former Rutgers University Tyler Clementi will be watched by legal experts nationwide to see how the court addresses the growing issue of cyberbullying. Here is a list of court proceedings where cyberbullying or Internet privacy invasion was a key issue.
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Five things you need to know about 'the cloud'
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Gmail breach: Eight tips to protect your e-mail account
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Job market's still tough. Seven ways to reenergize your job search.
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Android, iPhone users get new privacy protection
Android and iPhone apps will offer more disclosure about their use of personal data. Undera new deal between California and six tech giants, users of Android, iPhone, and other mobile devices will get disclosures before they download mobile apps.
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White House releases 'privacy bill of rights': what it promises online consumers
While falling short of law, the consumer 'privacy bill of rights' would give consumers 'new legal and technical tools to safeguard their privacy,' according to the White House.
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Tyler Clementi and cyberbullying: how courts ruled in five other cases
The trial for the roommate of former Rutgers University Tyler Clementi will be watched by legal experts nationwide to see how the court addresses the growing issue of cyberbullying. Here is a list of court proceedings where cyberbullying or Internet privacy invasion was a key issue.
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The Monitor's View: Privacy for children who use mobile apps
App stores and developers are lapse in helping parents protect the privacy of a child using smart phones and tablets. From Google to Apple, finds an FTC report, clear information is needed.
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Horizons With Gmail Man spoof, Microsoft assails Google privacy policy (+video)
Gmail Man is here, and he's looking at your private messages. Microsoft's new ad takes some humorous jabs at Google's free mail service.
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The Monitor's View: With Facebook IPO, time to friend privacy
Facebook's IPO, or initial public offering, will lead to shareholder pressure on the firm to squeeze profits out of users' personal data. Google, too, faces more scrutiny as it mines user data even more. Privacy watchdogs need to be on the alert.
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Horizons Google introduces privacy changes (cue the backlash)
On March 1, Google will roll out a new, streamlined privacy policy. And some critics are already up in arms.
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Horizons Facebook turns Like into Want, Cook, Read, and many others
Making good on its promise of "frictionless sharing," Facebook introduced 60 Timeline apps on Wednesday evening. The apps create real-time Facebook status updates on what you're listening to, reading, cooking ... the list goes on.
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Find My Face: facial recognition with less privacy angst
Find My Face on Google+ is opt-in feature. So Google+ users won't have facial recognition unless they choose Find My Face.
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Facebook tracking now under federal investigation
Facebook tracking triggers another round of criticism for the social network. This time, the FTC is offering the company a settlement over a legal complaint, while a Senate committee starts to ask: is Facebook tracking both users and non-users?
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Five things you need to know about 'the cloud'
When the Apple iPhone 4S and Amazon Kindle Fire tablet debuted this fall, the tech press blogged breathlessly about how these new devices harness 'the cloud.' Menacing as this hazy tech term may sound, the cloud is actually a regular part of daily digital life. In fact, gadget analysts expect this metaphorical cloud to envelop more of the world in coming years.
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Will users of Amazon's Silk browser be trading privacy for efficiency?
Amazon’s Kindle Fire’s cloud-based web browser, Silk, is already raising questions from security experts.
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Is OnStar turning your car against you? Senator Schumer thinks so.
Senator Schumer of New York criticizes in-vehicle emergency tool OnStar because it collects information about its users even after they cancel the service. It's the latest flareup over whether new technologies are violating users' privacy rights.
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Hacker arrests: Why Anonymous might not be so anonymous
This week's arrests of 21 members of Anonymous in the US and Europe show that, given time and resources, cybersleuths can track down hackers. But doubts remain over whether authorites caught any big fish.
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Russia's lie-detecting ATM: not just a KGB fantasy
Designed by a company whose clients include the KGB's successor, the new ATM performs facial recognition, reads fingerprints, and checks voiceprints to determine whether users are lying.
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Gmail breach: Eight tips to protect your e-mail account
The news this week of a hacker attack against hundreds of prominent users of Google Mail has served up a reminder: The security of digital information is often tenuous, despite many safeguards now in place. What can you do to protect against an invasion of personal information? Here are tips from Google and other privacy experts to make a data breach less likely:
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Mark Zuckerberg: Kids under 13 should be welcome on Facebook, too
Mark Zuckerberg says the under-13 set should be able to sign on to Facebook, despite a US law saying otherwise. Could a fight from Mark Zuckerberg change the law?
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Facebook caught starting smear campaign about Google
Facebook was caught red handed using a PR firm to try to spread negative news stories about Google through the mainstream press.
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New Internet privacy bill: How would it protect consumers?
Legislation proposed Tuesday would require companies to notify users before data is collected and allow users to change the collected data or opt-out entirely.
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When it comes to Facebook, EU defends the 'right to disappear'
New European Union rules planned for later this year will put the EU on the leading edge of privacy laws. The moves could have a profound effect on companies like Facebook.
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France fines Google over Street View privacy breech
France fines Google, criticizing Google for a lack of transparency and cooperation with its investigation, which it launched in 2009.
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Opinion: Why you should quit Facebook now
The very essence of Facebook is the sale of personal information. Throw in rogue apps and a lack of vetting, and you've got a security nightmare waiting to happen.
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Job market's still tough. Seven ways to reenergize your job search.
For America's jobless, the labor market is sending conflicting signals. On one hand, unemployment in December dropped to 9.4 percent, its lowest rate in 19 months, the US Department of Labor reported Friday. On the other hand, a separate Labor survey showed that the economy added only 103,000 jobs, when economists were expecting about 150,000 new nonfarm jobs. What to make of it all? In fits and starts, the economy is staging a very modest recovery, but it may take years before the nation regains the jobs it lost during the Great Recession. To find a job, many unemployed Americans may need to reenergize their own job search. Here are seven ways to do it:
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Against net neutrality
How can the government regulate the neutrality of the Internet? Isn't that a contradiction in terms?
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TSA screenings at airports too invasive? 'Opt Out' protest planned.
Internet grass-roots groups urge passengers to 'Opt Out' of the digital whole-body imaging scan on the day before Thanksgiving. The alternative to these TSA screenings is an 'enhanced' pat-down.
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