Big Brother gets bigger, says global privacy study
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U.S., U.K. among worst-ranked "democratic" countries in terms of privacy protections for citizens, says 2007 International Privacy Ranking report.
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The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion project to build the world's largest computer database of biometrics to give the government more ways to identify people at home and abroad, the Washington Post reported on Friday.
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Companies brace for privacy debate as potentially intrusive applications arrive faster than expected.
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Facebook's application platform could be the next battleground in the privacy wars. Will Facebook fold and finally respect user privacy?
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Google Inc , the world's  largest Internet company, will propose at a meeting of  international policymakers in France on Friday that national  regulators agree on a basic set of global privacy protections.
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The apparent release of searches made by hundreds of thousands of users is raising privacy concerns.
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Many people now find sense of community more important than privacy.
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Google is being taken to task by a UK-based privacy group over its apparent lack of a commitment to the privacy of its users. However, the company is doing what it can do discredit the report.
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Google is proposing that governments and technology companies create a transnational privacy policy.
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A U.S. House panel is looking into the "far-reaching privacy and competition issues" surrounding the deal.
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Just like Ask.com Unable to keep up with Google's market share, the other big search engines are determined to top its privacy policies. Last week, Ask.com announced new software that keeps web searches completely anonymous - a first among major search engines - and now Microsoft and Yahoo! have unveiled their own brand-spanking-new privacy principles.â¦
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Better health care and fraud protection may sound good, but are they worth the potential privacy trade-offs?
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The growing number of login names web users need puts privacy at risk, says a UN report.
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A study released by the Customer Respect Group indicates that telecommunications companies are slipping when it comes to customer privacy, especially in comparison to retail and high-tech industries. A majority of companies surveyed were dound to ask for excessive, inappropriate personal data.
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Europeans seek assurances that company is respecting privacy rights of people whose data it retains.
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The real privacy issues are being raised by Google, Yahoo, AOL and others, which are tracking users in order to show them advertising targeted to their interests.
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A new exhibition in London lifts the lid on the real-life world of spying, amid concerns about a developing "Big Brother" society and its effects on individual freedoms and civil liberties.Comment