On the Web, your life is an open book. Typing a name or telephone number into one of the many free online directories may disclose a person's age, previous cities of residence, and the names of ...
On the Web, your life is an open book. Typing a name or telephone number into one of the many free online directories may disclose a person's age, previous cities of residence, and the names of ...
Even with private tabs and an encrypted connection, for example, your ISP, whose job it is to examine and deliver your network data, could notice that you just visited the IP address of Google's ...
FTC seeks Net privacy law. Regulators ask Congress for legislation to shield children's online privacy in a report on Net data collection practices.
Terrorist threat shifts priorities in online rights debate. By Stefanie Olsen and Evan Hansen Staff Writers, CNET News.com September 17, 2001, 11:25 a.m. PT Last week's terrorist attacks on the ...
How to control your Facebook privacy. The social network has changed a key setting to ensure your updates aren't shared with the wrong people. What else can Facebook users do?
The battle for online privacy: What you need to know. ... with marketers is still being reviewed by the White House's Office of Management and Budget. ... new law putting the FTC back in charge of ...
How to fix Facebook's new privacy settings. The social network's new privacy system is flexible and powerful, but the initial settings page appears written to hide that goodness.
Mcintyre's site, and others like it, hints at both the strengths and dangers of a future where digital photography is as close as everyone's pocket cell phone and where broadband Net connections ...
What e-books at the library mean for your privacy. Folks know what you read last summer.
Google and Facebook, the giants of online advertising, are subject to looser requirements under the FTC. Critics want the FCC to adopt rules that are in line with the FTC's approach.
My question isn't so much a technical question, but it is over concerns of Windows 10 privacy. Windows 10 has been out for over 6 months, many have moved on and upgraded to Windows 10, yet many ...
In their own words: Search engines on privacy. CNET News.com tries to clear up recent privacy announcements by surveying Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Ask.com and AOL.
72 percent say no to Google Glass because of privacy. A study from market research firm Toluna suggests there is considerable emotional opposition to the idea of people wearing Glass in public.
Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET The new Windows 10 Settings menu is sort of a mashup between the Windows 8 PC settings menu and the traditional Control Panel.
5 privacy settings you should change in Windows 10. Taking back the operating system, one privacy setting at a time...
The Federal Trade Commission is about to get a new chairman, and consumer advocates want privacy to be one of his top priorities. Confirmed Friday, Timothy Muris is set to take office as head of ...
A new study says protections have been derailed or watered down by medical, credit, or financial lobbyists.
Industry makes its case on privacy. High-tech trade groups and companies rush to show that the industry can protect consumer privacy without the government getting involved.
Why it's meaningless to accept a GDPR privacy policy. You're drowning in these thanks to the GDPR. But they leave out something important.
Author Sonia Arrison says the EU's experience proves that overly strict data regulations will waste resources, reduce commerce and suppress free speech while providing few true privacy gains.