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London - August 2008
Leading article: In search of online privacy
It will come as no surprise to anyone who has used the internet that online search engines retain a history of our previous searches and the identity of our computer. Indeed, it often makes our life easier to find that a page we have previously visited remembers us. But how long would most of us estimate that websites hold this information for?
A day, perhaps? A week? Click here to learn more.
UK phonetap laws breach privacy
Government phone-tapping practices have violated the right to privacy, the European court of human rights ruled yesterday.
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Printer "Fingerprint" Dots Raise Privacy Concern
The affordability and growing popularity of color laser printers is raising concerns among civil liberties advocates that your privacy may not be worth the paper you're printing on.
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Gmail Privacy Hole Shows User Names
Sharing a Google Calendar with another Gmail user can expose the first name and last name that the recipient of the shared calendar supplied to set up a Gmail account. Click here to learn more.
Editorial Article: The right to online privacy
Most tools – be they a crowbar, a CCTV camera or a car – can be used for good or ill. The internet is no exception. It is disturbing, then, to learn that the worldwide web, which once promised a democratisation of the media, offering many new voices, stories and perspectives, has produced the opposite.
An eminent US media studies group has shown that the news agenda has, in fact, narrowed. Just two subjects – the war in Iraq and the 2008 US presidential election campaign – constituted more than a quarter of the stories in US newspapers, on television and online last year, it found. Strip out Iraq, Iran and Pakistan and news from the rest of the world makes up less than 6 per cent of the American news. And much of the news on the rest of the web is merely a repackaging of these sources. Click here to learn more.
Privacy fears hit Google search
Google is increasingly in the spotlight over the issue of privacy.
Google's Marissa Mayer comments "We think Google Search will be a very useful tool, but you will have to give up some of your privacy".
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Questions About Corporate E-Mail Privacy
When he was fired, Scott Sidell was angry enough.
Then he found out that his former employer was reading his personal Yahoo e-mail messages, after he had left the company.
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