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Automating Infrastructure and Operations Management with VMware
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Google, Facebook, MySpace; privacy rule breakers or trend makers?
The major social networking sites have all been fined for improper use of private data; is that a trend that should be ringing alarm bells or a sideshow for the paranoid and uninitiated?
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NSA will monitor private-sector networks
The Bushization of Obama continues with a plan to involve the NSA in screening private-sector networks, The Washington Post reports. The plan not only uses the NSA to monitor private networks but...
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Whitehouse.gov's YouTube cookies: The wrong privacy fight
I'm the last person who would ever want the government snooping around my computer. But this controversial thing over YouTube cookies on whitehouse.gov has really become bigger than it should be...
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Best Buy changes privacy policy
The changes are only the latest in a disturbing trend of companies revamping their privacy policies to the detriment of consumers, privacy advocates say.
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IBM bans Siri: Privacy risk, or corporate paranoia at its best?
IBM has banned Siri over concerns Apple and its partners could actively read uploaded queries. Corporate paranoia at its finest, or is IBM right to ban the intelligent assistant?
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TeenTech Weekly: Zuckerberg's student mocking, privacy policies, free Xboxes
The weekly roundup of Generation Y and student resources you may have missed.
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Facebook rules: Everyone can vote on new privacy policy
Facebook's rules state if there are 7,000 comments on a new privacy policy, the company has to take it to a worldwide vote. Activists made sure that threshold was broken. Are you ready to vote?
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Google Knowledge Graph: This is why they changed their privacy policy
Who needs a social graph when you have a knowledge graph?
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Flash mob stages conga line privacy protest against Facebook
Online privacy company Abine organizes simultaneous protests in New York and San Francisco to highlight concerns about Facebook's access to private data.
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San Francisco hates your startup: SceneTap
San Francisco denizens are angry that facial-detection cameras placed in bars by nightlife startup app SceneTap go live on Friday.
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Flashmob privacy protests target Facebook tomorrow: New York, San Francisco
Privacy activists target pre-IPO Facebook for flash mob protests tomorrow in New York and San Francisco.
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Watch it live: Facebook privacy policy Q&A
Do you have questions about Facebook's proposed changes to its privacy (aka Data Use) policy? Tune in and watch Facebook Chief Privacy Officer for Policy Erin Egan answer them live.
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Facebook updates privacy policy, will answer questions Monday
Facebook has outlined significant changes to its privacy (aka Data Use) policy and is asking its users for feedback. The company has also scheduled a live Q&A video for this coming Monday.
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Google, Facebook, MySpace; privacy rule breakers or trend makers?
The major social networking sites have all been fined for improper use of private data; is that a trend that should be ringing alarm bells or a sideshow for the paranoid and uninitiated?
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70% don't trust Facebook with their personal information
Do you trust Facebook with your personal information? Have you changed your Facebook privacy settings? For any online service, make sure to take advantage of all the settings at your disposal.
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Google 'negotiating FTC fine' after bypassing Safari privacy settings
Google is understood to be in talks with the FTC over how much it will be fined by the regulator after it bypassed the privacy settings in Apple's Safari browser.
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Privacy labels aim to control prying eyes, personal data
A pair of entrepreneurs thinks labels on websites that outline information sharing rules could go a long way toward protecting user privacy on the Internet and improving business relationships...
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Survey: Facebook, Google privacy policies are incomprehensible
Facebook and Google privacy policies have been found to be more confusing than complex documents such as government notices, credit card agreements, and bank reward-program rules.
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13 million US Facebook users don't change privacy settings
Most Facebook users change their privacy settings, but because the world's most popular social network is used by hundreds of millions of people, this still means that tens of millions don't.
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Internet privacy snafus that left us speechless (images)
Think your information is safe with "them"? Think again. The words may change but the song has remained the same.
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