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NEWS ABOUT: Internet privacy

Internet privacy stories: 25 news summaries

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You Can't
Afford to Read
the Fine Print

Actually reading online privacy policies would cost $365B per year

Oct 12, 08 5:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - No one bothers to read websites' online privacy policies. But if Americans did—just once a year for each site they visit—it would take 200 hours per person, amounting to $365 billion worth of lost time, Ars Technica reports. That may all be theoretical, but the researchers behind the... More »

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study • Carnegie Mellon University • Internet privacy • privacy policy

Jury Selection Turns to
Facebook, Blogs, Data

Experts mine online profiles for background on jurors' views

Sep 29, 08 11:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Get called for jury duty these days, and you can expect attorneys to know a lot more about you than they let on. Trial consultants who used to specialize in legwork—visiting neighbors and friends to gather clues to potential jurors' views—are now expert Web surfers, tracing things like... More »

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Facebook • prosecutor • blog • juror • profile • jury selection • public defender • Internet privacy

ANALYSIS

Explorer 8's Privacy Feature Boon to Users

... though advertisers surely won't like Microsoft's addition

Aug 27, 08 4:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - The privacy features available with the next version of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer will appeal to users “paranoid or perverted,” Peter Bright writes on Ars Technica, but will “go some way to curtailing the power of large Internet companies to monitor how people are using the web.... More »

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Microsoft • online privacy • Internet Explorer • privacy settings • cookies • Internet privacy

Pirate Bay Treasure: Total Web Encryption for Privacy

Project could protect all data exchanged between computers from prying eyes

Jul 10, 08 2:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - The founders of hugely popular torrent site Pirate Bay have announced ambitious plans to develop technology to encrypt all web traffic to ensure users absolute privacy, reports NewTeeVee. "Transparent end-to-end encryption for the internet"—or IPETEE—would protect all information sent from or received by a PC, including... More »

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Internet • file sharing • BitTorrent • data • The Pirate Bay • encryption • Internet privacy

FTC Rejects
Call for Internet Privacy Law

Google, others want
ad guidelines; feds
favor self-regulation

Jul 9, 08 5:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - An federal official testifying at a Senate hearing today shot down calls for a federal law to regulate websites that track users' data for advertising purposes. The FTC doesn't think it's necessary to place a rule on the books—one that could quickly become obsolete—and instead encouraged "meaningful,... More »

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Google • Microsoft • online advertising • FTC • World Wide Web • Internet privacy

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