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  • United we stand against spam?

    The FTC’s Orson Swindle recognizes that all anti-spam communities must work together to produce an integrated system of anti-spam laws and technologies. Remain divided and we’ll fall victim to a...

    News items | May 8, 2003 12:00am PDT

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  • US congressmen: Facebook evading privacy questions

    Joe Barton, a Texas Republican, and Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, are complaining Facebook is not answering questions about how the company tracks its users via cookies.

    Blog posts | January 10, 2012 7:24am PST

  • Almost half of British students 'vulnerable to identity theft'

    How important is data to British students? Clearly not enough, according to a poll which showed nearly half were worried about their post-Facebook job prospects.

    Blog posts | October 27, 2011 8:16am PDT

  • Irish Data Protection Commissioner to begin Facebook audit

    Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner will conduct a privacy audit of Facebook's activities. Facebook's international headquarters are in Dublin, so most of the site's users could be affected.

    Blog posts | September 29, 2011 9:59pm PDT

  • Case study: How the USA PATRIOT Act can be used to access EU data

    ZDNet's USA PATRIOT Act series: European universities are risking their students' security by outsourcing to the cloud. A case study.

    Blog posts | April 26, 2011 7:00am PDT

  • University in 'serious' data breach; Publishes 17,000 students' data

    The University of York has leaked 17,000 students' data on its website 'by mistake', which could be the biggest breach of student data in the UK to date.

    Blog posts | March 16, 2011 6:21am PDT

  • National Broadband Plan will drive media mayhem

    The proposal makes several recommendations that will have impacts on America's digital future regarding broadcast media services.

    Blog posts | March 23, 2010 9:40am PDT

  • Canada's Privacy Commissioner offers some advice: Google yourself twice a day...

    In a television interview on George Stroumboulopoulos television show The Hour, Canada's Privacy Commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, is asked some tough and humorous questions about what kind of...

    Blog posts | January 12, 2010 11:06am PST

  • Google Street View launches in U.K.

    Google today launched its controversial Street View service in Britain, offering Internet users panoramic street-level images of 25 cities, including London, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Glasgow and...

    Blog posts | March 19, 2009 10:00am PDT

  • Can XM-Sirius merger stand up to Washington politics?

    After well over a year of scrutiny, the proposed merger between the country's two satellite radio providers - XM and Sirius - is finally on the home stretch, set for an approval vote as early as...

    Blog posts | July 18, 2008 5:22pm PDT

  • FTC commissioner: Rules coming on Web privacy

    Welcome words from the FTC on online tracking and behavioral advertising. “People should have dominion over their computers,� FTC commissioner Jon Leibowitz said. “The current ‘don’t...

    Blog posts | November 1, 2007 7:08pm PDT

  • Outrage: Verizon Wireless wants to sell your personally identifiable data: here's how you can stop this

      Last week, it was revealed that Verizon Wireless is mailing a notice advising wireless subscribers that if they fail to Opt Out within 30 days, Verizon will begin SELLING their Customer...

    Blog posts | October 24, 2007 4:02pm PDT

  • FCC commissioner blasts US broadband, media policy

    FCC Commissioner Michael Copps accused the agency of " playing "Russian roulette with broadband and Internet and more traditional media" at a speech to the YearlyKos convention Thursday. He sees a...

    Blog posts | August 3, 2007 4:20pm PDT

  • U.K. commissioner blames CEOs for data breaches

    "How can laptops holding details of customer accounts be used away from the office without strong encryption?" Richard Thomas scolds.

    News items | July 11, 2007 3:28pm PDT

  • Commissioner won't break AT&T-BellSouth deadlock

    FCC member who formerly lobbied on behalf of Bell competitors says he won't vote on merger because of ethics considerations.

    News items | December 18, 2006 10:24pm PST

  • Shifting commissioners at FCC

    Republican Kathryn Abernathy is resigning from the FCC, temporarily leaving Democrats in charge of the agency with a 2-1 majority

    Blog posts | November 18, 2005 10:01am PST

  • FCC commissioner Abernathy resigns

    Kathleen Abernathy announces she will leave her post on Dec. 9, but no replacement is named.

    News items | November 17, 2005 10:03pm PST

  • The biggest spam challenge: defining it

    Charlie Rose, during a recent taping of his TV show, asked me and three other guests for our definitions of spam. The other responses ranged from “unsolicited commercial e-mail" to "an unwanted...

    News items | August 28, 2003 12:00am PDT

  • United we stand against spam?

    The FTC’s Orson Swindle recognizes that all anti-spam communities must work together to produce an integrated system of anti-spam laws and technologies. Remain divided and we’ll fall victim to a...

    News items | May 8, 2003 12:00am PDT

  • FTC commissioner tackles spam, privacy

    Q&A Orson Swindle is helping to decide rules that will define the cyberlandscape for the next generation. He believes the private sector is the answer.

    News items | September 5, 2002 3:56pm PDT

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