Privacy News Archives

Google has been given the go ahead to begin their StreetView project in the UK, which will capture images from Google cars with cameras perched on the top, and publish those images on Google Maps.

Google's Street View has been given approval to drive on the other side of the street on the other side of the pond.

A paper in the Journal of General Internal Medicine set out to examine the content of medical blogs for appropriateness and professionalism.

"In fact, companies are starting to find morale problems when there are information breaches.

Text size + - Flash of fury ... photos like this one of Britney Spears outside a child custody court hearing could be banished from media outlets by proposed privacy laws CELEBRITIES could keep embarrassing ...

Consumers who sign up for identity-theft monitoring services may be getting a lot less protection against some common types of fraud than they assume they are, according to an online guide released yesterday by the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (PRC).

NEW 1:45 p.m. MIAMI -- Travelers, be aware: Your full-blown image - private parts and all - could soon be visible to a security officer, on-screen, at an airport near you.

Academics concerned with new technology applications have asked the federal privacy commissioner to investigate online profiling of Internet users for targeted advertising.

Louisiana is the latest state to reject a federal identification card program intended as an anti-terror measure that is under criticism because of high costs and possible privacy risks.

The judges on the Supreme Court of Canada will decide this fall whether to post court documents online, the culmination of years of debate on whether throwing open the electronic doors threatens privacy rights ...

From desktop computers to mobile phones, Google Maps is one of the slickest and most useful online navigation tools available.

As a privacy law now seems inevitable, we must ensure it enshrines our freedoms, not erodes them still further All comments Max Mosley's victory in the High Court should be celebrated because it exposed the ...

Deli Korkmaz writes "The Washington Post reports that Sprint-Nextel spin-off Embarq, currently the US's fourth largest DSL provider, monitored Internet activity on some 26,000 customers in Kansas using ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES Q Is it true that laser printers put an invisible code that contains the printer's serial number on every document printed? ASome, but not all, laser printers do leave a series of nearly ...

Sixty thousand pounds may be the most ever paid in damages in a privacy action, but it is not as much as Max Mosley has been spending a year on his sadomasochism, and it is mere chickenfeed for the News of the ...

MOSLEY WIN 'IS DANGEROUS PRECEDENT' Mosley verdict sets a dangerous precedent says Lord Carey Saturday July 26,2008 Formula One boss Max Mosley's privacy win over the News of the World has set a "dangerous ...

Children's librarian Judith Flint was getting ready for the monthly book discussion group for 8- and 9-year-olds on "Love That Dog" when police showed up.

Attorney General Steve Carter said Thursday he would not appeal a federal court ruling overturning part of a new state law that would have allowed the computers of sex offenders to be searched long after their ...

It seems like there are few positive news stories and studies about medical blogs nowadays.

What the heck is so special about Dick Cheney's official residence that Google feels the need to obscure it ? Oh, must the be that secret bunker allegedly built underneath it.

Max Mosley: the News of the World was unable to show publishing its expose was in the public interest.

Max Mosley said outside the high court that he was 'delighted' with the judgment.

'The American Civil Liberties Union has urged the House Energy and Commerce Committee to require patient control of medical records and compensation for privacy breaches to be a part of the standards set for ...

The Max Mosley court case in Britain may well end with the most restrictive ruling on press freedom in recent years.

Gov. Brian Schweitzer is again urging the board that oversees the Montana public employees retirement system to release information to a group that represents police officers.

July 22, 2008, 05:34 PM - - Embarq , an Internet service provider based in Kansas, has suspended its test of a targeted advertising service that tracks subscribers' Web habits as a way to deliver relevant ads.

Once again, the City of Seattle is refusing to release a video that recorded the arrest of a current city councilmember.

Facebook and MySpace, the two largest social networks , eagerly launched new iPhone applications last Friday.

A law designed to better protect library patrons' privacy has Vermont's librarians tweaking their policies and databases.

In the book, The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet, author Daniel Solove brings up numerous questions about the state of online privacy.

RANDOLPH, Vt. -- Children's librarian Judith Flint was getting ready for the monthly book discussion group for 8- and 9-year-olds on "Love That Dog" when police showed up.

Privacy again was all the rage last week on Capitol Hill, but this time it wasn't about telecom companies getting legal cover so they can help the National Security Agency wiretap individuals with terrorist ...

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reaffirmed its ruling on USA v Arnold this past Friday that Customs and Border Protection agents are free to seize your laptop at the border without probable cause.

Rep. Edward Markey said online monitoring services should obtain clear consent before tracking users on the Web to develop ad-targeting campaigns.

The ingredients are explosive: an affluent Englishman, a handful of dominatrices, a tabloid newspaper and allegations of Nazi role-play. After a week that combined courtroom drama and British sex farce, a judge ...

Video-sharing Web site YouTube will shield the identities of users when it hands over viewer data to Viacom, according to an agreement made public on Wednesday.

The affordability and growing popularity of color laser printers is raising concerns among civil liberties advocates that your privacy may not be worth the paper you're printing on.

Massachusetts' Edward Markey has been making a name for himself by using his position as chair of the House's Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet to explore the implications of new trends on the ...

The scent of marijuana wafting from a car isn't enough reason for police to arrest everyone inside, but officers can still follow their noses to search a vehicle, Washington's Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

Congress has asked Embarq Corp. about its work with a company that tracks online subscribers' Web traffic for advertising purposes, part of growing concern about Internet privacy.

Congress waded into the escalating fight over the future of Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday, demanding to know whether the Internet company's advertising partnership with Google Inc., intended to keep Yahoo out of the ...

Credit card companies know what you have bought. Phone companies know whom you've called.

After a week of testimony, a sensational trial that has centered on the sadomasochistic activities of Max Mosley, went to the judge on Monday without the testimony of the woman who ignited the affair by concealing a video camera in her brassiere. The judge said he hoped to rule next week in Mr. Mosley’s invasion-of-privacy case against a tabloid.

Dutch search engine IxQuick Monday became the first company to receive the newly-established European Privacy Certificate.

The affordability and growing popularity of color laser printers is raising concerns among civil liberties advocates that your privacy may not be worth the paper you're printing on.

Unlike the footprints we leave as we walk along the beach, electronic footprints don't wash away so easily. Most human activity leaves an electronic footprint that will last beyond our lifetime.

A Senate panel held a hearing Wednesday to investigate the growing issue of online privacy and what rights individuals should have to decide how their Web surfing history can be used by advertisers.

Protect yourself! Your privacy protections may disappear with a court order or subpoena, but there are steps that privacy activists suggest you take to reduce your exposure...

If you've taken a stroll down Main Street in the past five months, chances are you were videotaped by a federally funded surveillance camera.

The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati did not overturn a law that allows the government to peek into private e-mails without a search warrant if officials think that criminal activity is ...

Reporter Alexandra Marks discusses the concerns that business groups and civil libertarians have over customs officials seizing laptops and personal hand-held devices at the border.

The Senate has approved a bill overhauling the rules on secret government eavesdropping and granting immunity to telecom companies that helped listen in on Americans after Sept.

Medicaid patients' medical records are going online in South Carolina so that people providing treatment have easier access to the information they need to offer the best care, officials said.

"Self-regulation may be the preferable approach for this dynamic marketplace," Lydia Parnes, the director of the commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection, told a Senate committee.

Viacom is trying to alleviate concerns about how it will use the YouTube user data it requested in discovery - " and that the judge in Viacom v Google approved.

Sen. Barack Obama's vote in favor of anti-terrorist surveillance legislation on Wednesday marked an about-face on the issue that left him comfortably in the bipartisan middle, no matter the criticism from John McCain nor the discomfort among liberal Democrats.

'Given the choice between voting for an improved yet imperfect bill, and losing important surveillance tools, Senator Obama chose to support' the legislation, his office said, even though it contained a provision the Democratic presidential nominee-in-waiting had flatly opposed.

The Bush administration will do everything possible to ensure the government has the tools to fight terrorists before the next president takes office, while protecting people's privacy, Attorney General Michael ...

Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. told lawmakers yesterday that Congress should pass basic privacy legislation to protect information about consumers, such as the data being gathered on Web surfing habits in ...

Executives from major Internet players - Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Facebook Inc.

Has it struck anyone else that Google has been rather weak-kneed in its response to the court order requiring it to turn over YouTube viewing logs to Viacom? Google's entire business is built on our trust that ...

GOOGLE seems to be trying to prove it does, in fact, give a hoot about people's privacy, after a judge's order on Thursday forced the company to turn over all Youtube user records had privacy groups spitting teeth.

With Congress on the verge of outlining new parameters for National Security Agency eavesdropping between suspicious foreigners and Americans, lawmakers are leaving largely untouched a host of government programs that critics say involves far more domestic surveillance than the wiretaps they sought to remedy.

Daily Mail publisher Associated Newspapers has admitted that a laptop containing financial and personal details of thousands of staff, suppliers and contributors has been stolen.

The word "privacy" now appears on Google's home page, with a link to the company's privacy policy. With that one word, the Web search giant heads off the growing controversy over whether its previous practice ran afoul of a California law...

Street View matches photos of locations to maps, including passers-by who were captured as the photograph was taken. Privacy International, a UK rights group, believes the technology breaks data protection laws.

Another American ISP has put the skids on its data pimping plans. Last week, under pressure from Congressional big wigs, Charter Communications suspended plans to deploy a Phorm -like behavioral ad targeting ...

Privacy rights vs. terror fights: The EU and the United States are close to agreeing on how to protect personal and private data while still letting law enforcement officials share information to combat ...

Google has chosen to blur the faces of people caught on camera by the French edition of its StreetView service.

The ongoing Google/YouTube-Viacom litigation has now officially spilled over to users with a court order requiring Google to turn over massive amounts of user data to Viacom. If the data is actually released, the consequences could be far more serious than the 2006 AOL Search debacle.

How widely is the U.S. government using cell phones to pinpoint the locations or track the movements of Americans, or people living on American soil?

There is an inclination, perhaps especially at the approach each year of the Fourth of July holiday, to believe the great struggles for freedom are a part of our history rather than the stuff of a current affairs quiz. Attempts to rewrite the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in a manner that attacks our Fourth Amendment privacy rights confirms that the wisdom of Sam Adams remains as timeless as the promise of the American experiment.

New book explains how Big Brother knows where you are, what you do and what you've written -- and how to protect yourself. Written by Harry Lewis, Ken Ledeen and Hal Abelson.

There have been calls for reform of Irish and British surveillance laws after the European Court of Human Rights found that the UK had violated the right to privacy.