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online privacy stories: 62 news summaries

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Google Must Turn Over YouTube Records: Judge

Data dump includes users' names and IP addresses

Jul 4, 08 3:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

YouTube Divorcee Hubby Goes to Court

NY Theater mogul 'mortified' to see 'whole life' on Web

Jun 28, 08 8:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - "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—... More »

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

Writing About Your Kids?
Set Some Limits

Some have age limits, others won't address certain topics

Jun 8, 08 10:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

OPINION

Who's Afraid
of Google Health?

Concerns over personal privacy "misguided"

May 23, 08 11:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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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health care • Google • online privacy • information technology • Google Health • health records • opinion

Feds Want to Help Cover Your Web Tracks

FTC aims to limit companies' ability
to watch consumers

May 22, 08 6:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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online privacy • FTC • Internet advertising • Web tracking • behavioral tracking • web cookies

Facebook Sets Safeguards Against Sexual Predators

Site adds more than 40 new protective measures

May 8, 08 4:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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social networking • Facebook • online privacy • children • pedophile • sex offenders • sexual predator • child pornography

Facing Suit,
FBI Drops
Secret Order

Feds sought user's activity records from Internet archive

May 8, 08 8:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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FBI • online privacy • national security letters • Patriot Act • Internet Archive

EU Takes Aim at Search Engines Over Personal Data

Companies should delete users' info within six months, advisory group says

Apr 8, 08 3:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

 Google Pushes 
 Privacy Reforms 

Firm hopes to allay concerns about its DoubleClick buy

Mar 27, 08 5:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

After Beacon 'Screw Up' Facebook Ups Privacy

Online chat coming too

Mar 19, 08 1:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

Web Inventor: Don't Track
Me, Bro

Internet creator decries spyware: 'You can't have' my data

Mar 17, 08 5:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Internet • online privacy • ISP • Internet service providers • Internet advertising • Web tracking • Tim Berners-Lee • Phorm • private data

 As Press
 Closes In,
 'Kristen'
 Clams Up 

Online profiles attract publicity, good and bad

Mar 14, 08 3:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

The Internet Is Watching You

Biggest companies gather data on the average user hundreds of times a month

Mar 10, 08 12:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

OMG! Parents Friend
Kids on Facebook

Some are cool with it; others horrified

Mar 9, 08 6:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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?... More »

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

Google Health Will Be Ad-Free

Medical-records service now being tested will profit by increasing search traffic

Mar 1, 08 10:02 AM CST
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

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

Privacy groups file to intervene in case

Feb 28, 08 3:00 PM CST
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

Web Tracking Opt-Out Plan Gets Panned

Online ad group's proposal clashes with FTC guidelines, privacy group desires

Feb 25, 08 3:13 PM CST
(Newser) - 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... More »

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online advertising • online privacy • targeted advertising • Interactive Advertising Bureau • cookies • Web tracking

Private Photos Find Way to Online Viewers

Case of circumvented Flickr privacy settings has parents worried

Feb 21, 08 4:00 PM CST
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

Outcry Over Leak Site Closure Order

Privacy, 1st Amendment advocates fume over judge's decision

Feb 20, 08 1:04 PM CST
(Newser) - 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... More »

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online privacy • First Amendment • Wikileaks • Julius Baer Group • Pentagon Papers

Facebook Fixes Problems With Its 'Delete' Button

After complaints, networking site figures out how to eliminate ex-users' information

Feb 18, 08 11:05 AM CST
(Newser) - 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... More »

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social networking • Internet • Facebook • online privacy • Beacon

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