Google has stated that it has not manipulated data submitted to the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in an earlier investigation. ICO had re-opened its investigation into Google's data collection practices for Street View and had asked Google to provide the "raw data", claimingPDF that Google had "pre-prepared" the files it had made available earlier.
LinkedIn has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a disgruntled user in the wake of its recent data breach, accusing the firm of failing to keep information about its members safe.
Earlier this month it emerged that the passwords of nearly 6.5 million of the social networking site’s users were posted in a Russian web forum.
Some people are total assholes on Facebook. They're bullies who post things that are racist, sexist, and otherwise offensive. And you report them. But what happens when you do? Facebook Security has posted an explanation.
The guide above (click to enlarge) looks a little bit like the game Mouse Trap, and it's not all that straightforward, though the company breaks down the process a bit, explaining that there are four teams (Safety, Hate and Harassment, Access, and Abusive Content) made up of hundreds of employees that are monitoring complaints 24/7.
The government’s vast secrecy bureaucracy does two things with great frequency. The first, of course, is keeping secrets. The second is devising elaborate reasons why you can’t know what those secrets are.
Rarely does a week go by without Twitter being at the centre of a media furore over posts purportedly breaking the law and landing users in hot water. Last year, Manchester United’s Ryan Giggs’ name was all over the social media network, despite a legal ruling granting him anonymity in a case alleging he had an affair with former Big Brother contestant Imogen Thomas. More recently, a new low was reached when the woman raped by Sheffield United footballer Ched Evans was named on Twitter, despite the anonymity of rape victims being protected by statute.
The surveillance experts at the National Security Agency won’t tell two powerful United States Senators how many Americans have had their communications picked up by the agency as part of its sweeping new counterterrorism powers. The reason: it would violate your privacy to say so.
On Monday, Facebook announced that it would acquire Israeli startup Face.com for an undisclosed amount.
Face.com develops a mobile face recognition platform that can be used in various online and smartphone apps. The implications for how this could affect use on the world’s largest social network are huge—it may soon become even easier for mobile phone users to tag people, blurring the line between the physical and online worlds even further.
Global domain name regulator ICANN has apologised for inadvertently publishing full contact information of those who applied for a generic top-level (gTLD) domain earlier this week.
ICANN publicly revealed the list of nearly 2000 proposed top-level domains and the names of the applicants as part of a splashy event on Wednesday in London.
Several U.S. tourists report being asked by airport security personnel for access to their personal email accounts; Israel's Shin Bet security service says it acted within the law.
Israel's Shin Bet security service has been demanding access to personal email accounts of visiting tourists with Arab names, according to the testimony of three U.S. citizens who were interrogated at Ben Gurion Airport and subsequently refused entry into Israel in May.
Usernames and passwords of Twitter members using file-sharing application TweetGif have been leaked to the internet by a group of hackers claiming to have risen from the ashes of disbanded hacker group LulzSec.
“LulzSec Reborn” spilled around 10,000 personal details of TweetGif users - including real names and locations.
