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Google Flunks Privacy Probe

"Don't be evil" motto questioned after  search giant rated worst on web for user protection

Jun 11, 07 10:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - Google ranks dead last among Internet sites for protecting user privacy, a new study by watchdog group Privacy International concludes. In its 6-month analysis of top e-commerce, social networking, e-mail, and search sites, PI singled out Google for what it called a "entrenched hostility to privacy," citing fuzzy... More »

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Google • Internet • web surfing • email • online advertising • privacy • online privacy • Privacy International • search engine • e-commerce

Spam King Arrest Won't
Stem Junk Mail Tide

Clients will just switch to new spammers, says Andy Greenberg.
The solution: make it expensive

Jun 1, 07 6:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - The vaunted arrest earlier this week of Robert Soloway, the "Spam King" from Seattle, won't do as much to stem the flood of  junk email as the feds want to think it will, says Andy Greenberg in Forbes. The clients who paid to use his 'zombie" computers to... More »

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Internet • email • spam • Robert Alan Soloway • Internet security

Feds Nab Top Spammer, Predict Junk Mail Drop

One of world's "top 10" spammers jailed; used "zombie" computers to send out millions of junk emails

May 31, 07 7:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - The feds arrested one of the world's worst spammers yesterday—a guy so prolific they claimed net-users worldwide would notice a drop in junkmail as a result of his detention. Robert Alan Soloway used infected "zombie" computers to send out millions of messages, and continued to do so even... More »

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Internet • Microsoft • fraud • email • spam • Robert Alan Soloway • identity theft • money laundering

Senate Seeks  E-mails From Gonzales

Attorney general receives first subpoena in firing scandal

May 2, 07 8:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Senate demanded all e-mails pertaining to Karl Rove's role in the disputed firing of eight U.S. attorneys from Alberto Gonzales today, setting a May 15 deadline for the attorney general to turn them over. Patrick Leahy, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which  issued the subpoena, disputes... More »

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Bush administration • Alberto Gonzales • US attorney • Karl Rove • investigation • Attorney General • RNC • email • Senate • Senate Judiciary Committee • Patrick Leahy • subpoena • scandal

Baiters Turn Tables On
Scammers

Ron Rosenbaum reports on vigilantes patrolling the "scamosphere"

May 2, 07 10:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Revenge is a dish best served electronically, Ron Rosenbaum reports in an Atlantic expose on scam-baiting. A community of e-vigilantes has developed elaborate schemes to thwart the ruses of fake Nigerian princes with equally creative faux dupes. Scammers are punished by coaxing them into laborious and embarrassing tasks, like holding... More »

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Internet • fraud • email • spam • scam • computer

Four Years of Rove E-mails
Go Missing

E-mails may have covered attorney firings

Apr 13, 07 8:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Four years of emails from Karl Rove that are being sought in a congressional investigation are missing and may have been deleted by Rove himself, the Republican National Committee acknowledged yesterday. The RNC operates the server for non-official e-mail accounts Rove and other White House players use for political business;... More »

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Bush administration • US attorney • Karl Rove • politics • Congressional investigations • RNC • email • US attorneys scandal • executive privilege • scandal

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