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.: Facebook privacy practices get FTC shakeup
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"Facebook settled a federal complaint about its privacy practices, making major changes to the way it handles user information in order to clear away an issue that could have overshadowed its expected- and long awaited - IPO..." [news.com] |
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.: A Day in the Life of Privacy
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"Everyday we Make Compromises in the Face of Privacy, and None of us Have as Much Privacy as we Want. As soon as I woke up this morning my privacy was compromised. My Android phone has GPS enabled so that the phone, and any widget on it, can determine my geolocation..." [Security Week] |
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.: Microsoft Drops Use of 'Supercookies' on MSN
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"In response to work by Stanford University researchers who found that Microsoft and several other high-profile companies were using a controversial technique to keep persistent cookies on users' PCs to track their movements, Microsoft says it has discontinued the practice of using so-called "supercookies..." [Threat Post] |
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