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British protests show privacy matters
118 800, Phorm and Google have all been at the receiving end of British anger over privacy intrusions.
Do you want Google Latitude to track your children?
A warning that kids could be unaware of the dangers of allowing strangers to track their location, using tracking services like Google Latitude.
Government looks to ISPs as it cuts comms database plan
The Home Office no longer wants to store all the data in a single place.
Week in Review: Confusing results
Privacy, eBay's plans and quarterly results have had us scratching our heads this week.
China sticks with censorship in face of Google threat
China appears to have no plans to change its censorship of the internet, despite threats from Google that it will quit the country.
Government confirms post-election plans to track public comms
New government legislation to force telecoms companies and ISPs to keep records of all personal communication for a year will be held off until the...
Phorm loses money and members of the board
The first six months of 2009 have been up and down for Phorm with huge losses as well as massive fundraising revenues, but now more senior...
Campaigners celebrate 'victory' over Phorm
Open Rights Group says BT has made the right decision to not implement Phorm's advertising system.
UPDATED: BT drops Phorm, investors follow
As BT steps back from behavioural advertising plans, Phorm stays confident while investors falter.
A short history of Phorm
As Phorm launches a new consumer product, we track the system's rocky reception in the UK.
Government agency denies tech monitoring plans
The Government Communciations Headquarters has denied developing technology to monitor all UK phone and internet use.
Your views: Big Brother snooping
It would seem most IT PRO readers aren't in favour of the Home Office plans to watch our email and phone calls, but they do like the idea of cc'ing...
ICO: Comms bill still 'highly intrusive'
The Information Commissioner has welcomed plans to shelve a central communications database, but warned that the data being looked at is still very...
ISP email law changes meet stiff opposition
Information retention requirements for ISPs are changing very soon.
ICO: Databases never ‘risk free’
The Information Commissioner’s Office has warned on government plans for a communications database, but welcomed public debate.
Facebook sued over privacy
American Facebook users have taken action against the social network over the way it treats confidential data.
Facebook public profiles a ‘disturbing privacy issue’
Publicly-available profile information can be used for snooping purposes, according to research.
Are privacy and security stifling innovation?
Privacy and security needs to be handled very carefully to make sure that innovation isn’t stifled.
Google Buzz hit by official privacy complaint
Privacy campaign group EPIC has filed a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission over Google's social networking service.
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