Privacy

On Monday Google unveiled its latest efforts in its quest for local relevance by announcing its new mobile “News Near You” feature for smartphones. As the name indicates, the new …

A spat over data privacy that has been rumbling on between social network Facebook and search giant Google has today erupted into a Tom Clancy-esque game of subterfuge, after The Daily Beast pinned down the source of anti-Google stories planted in the press as none other than Mark Zuckerberg’s baby.

The world’s tech press, fickle bunch that they are, have moved on from bashing Sony over the continued outage of the company’s Playstation Network and Qriocity services, and are currently drooling over Google’s latest and greatest at the I/O 2011 conference in San Francisco.

It would seem that Sony wasn’t content with losing only 77 million users’ details, and has now smashed the 100 million mark with another leak of personal information, this time through Sony Online Entertainment, a game development house specialising in online RPGs such as EverQuest and Star Wars Galaxies.

The death of mobile “check-in” services is often hotly debated in industry circles; but while Facebook Places may have flopped and services like Foursquare/Gowalla et all look to expand their …

Although Google Inc. may be frying bigger fish right now, the Federal Trade Commission has just announced they have reached a settlement with Google over the search giant’s bungled launch of Buzz last year. The agreement stipulates that Google must submit to independent privacy audits for the next 20 years in order to make sure they do not violate privacy policies again.

Sydney Morning Herald | January 10, 2010 | Lucy Battersby THE privacy commissioner will investigate the way Vodafone handles customer data after reports that private information was easily accessible to …

BlackBerry users in India will have to share their private data with the Indian Government, it has emerged.