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  • July 2008

    • Google Must Turn Over YouTube Records: Judge

      newser  |  Wired  |  Jul 4, 08 3:46 AM CDT

      Google Must Turn Over YouTube Records: Judge

      A judge has ordered Google to give Viacom records of all videos ever watched on YouTube, including users’ names and IP addresses, Wired reports. Viacom is seeking the data to bolster its $1 billion lawsuit against Google for allowing copyrighted Viacom clips on YouTube. The media giant believes the data will show that copyrighted clips draw more views than user-created content. More »

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      Google  • lawsuit  • YouTube  • online privacy  • copyright  • Viacom  • copyright infringement

  • June 2008

    • YouTube Divorcee Hubby Goes to Court

      newser  |  New York Daily News  |  Jun 28, 08 8:38 AM CDT

      YouTube Divorcee Hubby Goes to Court

      "I felt absolutely awful, I was humiliated, I was embarrassed, I was hurt," the husband of YouTube sensation Patricia Walsh-Smith said yesterday in a New York divorce court. "I felt violated in every sense of the word." Philip Smith was telling his side of the story—to a judge—after his wife's series of angry videos spilled endless details about their stormy and apparently sexless marriage of 9 years to millions. More »

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      YouTube  • divorce  • sex  • online privacy  • rich  • invasion of privacy

    • Writing About Your Kids? Set Some Limits

      newser  |  Slate  |  Jun 8, 08 10:00 AM CDT

      Writing About Your Kids? Set Some Limits

      Writers can throw themselves head-first into the nasty, permanent archive that is the Internet—but what of their kids? Emily Bazelon polled writers for Slate and found that while details may differ, the general policy is, the more privacy the better. "The blog medium has a certain kind of immediacy, and a reciprocal surrendering of privacy, that we don't want in our lives forever,” says one writing dad. More »

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      children  • journalism  • ethics  • online privacy  • journalistic ethics  • personal privacy

  • May 2008

    • Who's Afraid of Google Health?

      newser  |  Atlantic Monthly  |  May 23, 08 11:51 AM CDT

      Who's Afraid of Google Health?

      Google's new health record-sharing service has privacy advocates' hearts racing. But the benefits outweigh the risks, both in costs and potential lives saved, James Gibney argues in the Atlantic. Ready access to personal health records could prevent medical errors like incorrectly prescribed meds while saving billions in related  costs. More »

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      Google  • health care  • online privacy  • opinion  • information technology  • Google Health  • health records

    • Feds Want to Help Cover Your Web Tracks

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  May 22, 08 6:57 PM CDT

      Feds Want to Help Cover Your Web Tracks

      The Federal Trade Commission is considering guidelines governing how online advertisers target consumers based on their Web surfing—and some lawmakers want them to be mandatory, the Washington Post reports. Privacy advocates are pushing to limit behavioral tracking, but some Internet companies say that could mean sites won’t be able to keep offering content free.   More »

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      Internet advertising  • online privacy  • FTC  • Web tracking

    • Facebook Sets Safeguards Against Sexual Predators

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  May 8, 08 4:42 PM CDT

      Facebook Sets Safeguards Against Sexual Predators

      Facebook has implemented more than 40 additional measures to protect users from pedophiles and online bullying, the AP reports. The site now limits results for older users searching for minors, and has banned sex offenders from registering. "Building a safe and trusted online experience has been part of Facebook from its outset," said the site’s chief privacy officer. More »

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      children  • Facebook  • social networking  • online privacy  • child pornography  • pedophile  • sexual predators

    • Facing Suit, FBI Drops Secret Order

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  May 8, 08 8:56 AM CDT

      Facing Suit, FBI Drops Secret Order

      Facing a lawsuit, the FBI has withdrawn a secret order demanding that an Internet library turn over a user's records—only the third time the bureau has backed down from such a demand, known as a "national security letter." The San Francisco-based Internet Archive, which stores old versions of websites, challenged the order on the grounds that the Patriot Act provision that protects libraries from similar requests should apply online as well. More »

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      FBI  • online privacy  • Patriot Act  • national security letters

  • April 2008

    • EU Takes Aim at Search Engines Over Personal Data

      newser  |  BBC  |  Apr 8, 08 3:51 PM CDT

      EU Takes Aim at Search Engines Over Personal Data

      A European advisory body has sharply criticized Internet search companies’ use of personal data, the BBC reports. Its recommendations, likely to be adopted by the European Commission, say search companies should delete users’ information within six months. The opinion comes alongside reports of a new kind of computer cookie that tracks Internet surfers’ behavior in much more detail than ordinary cookies. More »

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      Google  • Yahoo  • online privacy  • search engine  • MSN  • cookies  • data tracking

  • March 2008

    • Google Pushes Privacy Reforms

      newser  |  ComputerWorld  |  Mar 27, 08 5:31 PM CDT

      Google Pushes Privacy Reforms

      Google is working to ease concerns about privacy infringement in online advertising, ComputerWorld reports. The online giant hosted a meeting for the Consumer Privacy Legislative Forum, a group working to get a bill protecting online consumers’ information passed in Congress. Google will also file comments concerning the FTC’s proposed privacy regulations, which advocate transparency in the collection of user’s personal info. More »

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      Google  • online advertising  • online privacy  • DoubleClick  • FTC  • online ads  • personal privacy

    • After Beacon 'Screw Up' Facebook Ups Privacy

      newser  |  PC World  |  Mar 19, 08 1:18 PM CDT

      After Beacon 'Screw Up' Facebook Ups Privacy

      Facebook is launching a series of new privacy features today, allowing users to better pinpoint who can see which parts of their information, PC World reports. Privacy has been a watchword at Facebook ever since the PR disaster that was the Beacon advertising platform, which tracked users online. “With Beacon, we just screwed it up,” one VP admitted. More »

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      Facebook  • online privacy  • Beacon  • instant messaging  • chat room  • privacy settings

    • Web Inventor: Don't Track Me, Bro

      newser  |  BBC  |  Mar 17, 08 5:35 PM CDT

      Web Inventor: Don't Track Me, Bro

      He may have created a web that's worldwide, but Internet founder Tim Berners-Lee is very proprietary when it comes to tracking programs, such as Phorm, that allow ISPs to monitor their customers. Berners-Lee says he’d drop any company caught mining his data. “It’s mine—you can’t have it,” he said. “If you want to use it for something, then you have to negotiate with me.” More »

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      Internet  • Internet advertising  • online privacy  • ISP  • Internet service providers  • Web tracking  • private data

    • As Press Closes In, 'Kristen' Clams Up

      newser  |  CNN  |  Mar 14, 08 3:20 PM CDT

      As Press Closes In, 'Kristen' Clams Up

      The woman introduced to the world this week as a prostitute named “Kristen”—aspiring singer Ashley Alexandra Dupre—is trying to maintain some privacy as she keeps close tabs on her Facebook and MySpace accounts, CNN reports. After the New York Times revealed her identity, she began cleaning up her profiles on the sites, seemingly trying to exert control over what the public could see. More »

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      Facebook  • MySpace  • media  • Eliot Spitzer  • sex scandal  • prostitution  • online privacy  • Ashley Alexandra Dupre  • Kristen

    • The Internet Is Watching You

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Mar 10, 08 12:30 PM CDT

      The Internet Is Watching You

      Long gone are the days of Internet anonymity. Big Web companies know all about you, says a study commissioned by the New York Times . The Internet giants track users’ behavior across sites, gathering details on a typical person several hundred times a month. That information lets them target content and—most lucratively—advertising, leaving traditional media companies in the dust. More »

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      Internet  • Yahoo  • MySpace  • Internet advertising  • New York Times  • online privacy  • AOL  • online media  • targeted advertising  • consumer protection

    • OMG! Parents Friend Kids on Facebook

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Mar 9, 08 6:00 AM CDT

      OMG! Parents Friend Kids on Facebook

      What to do when their father starts talking about “getting poked" is a question many high school and college kids are asking themselves these days. It's a modern-day dilemma: Do teens allow their folks into their friends network on Facebook and grant them access to blogs, photos, and messages? Parents are increasingly seeking oversight and entrée into their children’s digital world, the Washington Post reports—and many kids aren’t all right with that. More »

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      Facebook  • social networking  • MySpace  • online privacy  • high school  • parents  • college student  • Internet freedom

    • Google Health Will Be Ad-Free

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Mar 1, 08 10:02 AM CST

      Google Health Will Be Ad-Free

      The newest member of the Google family, Google Health, will not have advertising, CEO Eric Schmidt said this week, but will earn its keep from the traffic it draws to the company’s search engine. The new service stores health records, allowing users to share test results, prescriptions and other information with multiple medical providers; it's currently being tested at the Cleveland Clinic, and isn't open to the public yet . More »

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      Google  • health care  • online privacy  • medical records  • Google Apps  • Google Health

  • February 2008

    • Wikileaks.org Closing Doesn't Secure Bank's Client Info

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Feb 28, 08 3:00 PM CST

      Wikileaks.org Closing Doesn't Secure Bank's Client Info

      Legal action resulting in the closing of whistleblower site Wikileaks.org has backfired for the Swiss bank that sought to protect confidential information about their clients, the AP reports. Popular outrage over the closing of the site over its posting of documents from Bank Julius Baer has cause the widespread circulation of those documents on privacy advocacy websites, as well as on Wikileaks own mirrors. More »

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      online privacy  • First Amendment  • ACLU  • Wikileaks  • Julius Baer Group

    • Web Tracking Opt-Out Plan Gets Panned

      newser  |  CNET  |  Feb 25, 08 3:13 PM CST

      Web Tracking Opt-Out Plan Gets Panned

      An online advertisers trade group has proposed guidelines for targeted advertising that don’t satisfy recent FTC recommendations. The Interactive Advertising Bureau proposal would make it harder for consumers to know if a website was storing their information; FTC guidelines suggest a “clear, consumer-friendly, and prominent statement” and easy opting-out process on websites that plan to collect data for targeted ads. More »

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      online advertising  • online privacy  • targeted advertising  • cookies  • Web tracking

    • Private Photos Find Way to Online Viewers

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Feb 21, 08 4:00 PM CST

      Private Photos Find Way to Online Viewers

      The privacy settings on online photo-sharing sites aren’t always foolproof, as one Washington mother discovered. After posting pictures of her kids skinny-dipping on Flickr and marking them “private,” she found recently that they had been viewed thousands of times, the Washington Post reports. "Are creepy people searching through thousands of pictures looking for random naked ones?” she wonders. More »

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      online privacy  • website  • digital photography  • Flickr  • privacy settings  • Shutterfly  • Snapfish

    • Outcry Over Leak Site Closure Order

      newser  |  ComputerWorld  |  Feb 20, 08 1:04 PM CST

      Outcry Over Leak Site Closure Order

      Privacy and First Amendment advocates are fuming after a judge ordered an entire website shut down in response to a lawsuit. Wikileaks.org had allowed whistleblowers to anonymously post confidential documents, reports ComputerWorld . A critic calls closing down the whole website in response to a Swiss bank's complaint "like putting a padlock on the front door of the New York Times," over a single article. More »

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      online privacy  • First Amendment  • Wikileaks  • Julius Baer Group

    • Facebook Fixes Problems With Its 'Delete' Button

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Feb 18, 08 11:05 AM CST

      Facebook Fixes Problems With Its 'Delete' Button

      Making a profile on Facebook is easy, but before this weekend, deleting one wasn't: Not even Facebook could do it, the New York Times reports. Frustrated users filled out a form intended to delete their profiles but found bits of info still accessible on the site. Facebook says it has solved the problem, and profiles can be completely erased. More »

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      Internet  • Facebook  • social networking  • online privacy  • Beacon

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