privacy
May 10 2011, ARVIND K.PANDEY

The arrival of gizmos and gadgets have made talks about protection of one’s privacy sound hollow. Now it’s become entirely impossible to find a safe hiding lying beyond the range of these new technological incarnations. The word “privacy” has...

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Rema Willis, Los Angeles
A hacker created the Facebook torrent that is accessible to any person who wants files from Facebook data. Ron Bowes wrote a web crawling code that scraped the Facebook...
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Tommy, Berlin
The German government will consider new rules to address the privacy implications of Internet services such as Google’s “Street View,” and plans a...
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Suzane Dsouza, Mumbai
The Australian police have been ordered to investigate Google for possible breach of privacy while taking pictures for its Street View service.
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Wa'd, Amman
Facebook Inc. scrambled to fix a bug that permitted some users’ chat messages and pending friend requests to be made visible to their friends. The snafu comes...
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John, Kampala
Facebook has updated its web site to create more connected profiles and added a Community Pages feature that could compete with Wikipedia. The social networking giant...
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John, Kampala
Once upon a time, Facebook could be used simply to share your interests and information with a select small community of your own choosing. As Facebook’s privacy...
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John, Kampala
Google moved quickly over the weekend to try to contain mounting criticism of Buzz, its social network, apologizing to users for features that were widely seen as...
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John, Kampala
Anyone with an e-mail account likely knows that police can peek inside it if they have a paper search warrant. But cybercrime investigators are frustrated by the speed...
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CJ, San Francisco
More specifically, how we define privacy in our texting, tweeting, Facebooking, YouTubing, Googling era. Earlier this month, after Sprint, Verizon and Yahoo were...
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Johnny, Bogota
Argentina - Valuing truth over the right to privacy, Argentina’s Congress has authorized the forced extraction of DNA from people who may have been born to...
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A primary school head teacher in Luweero District could lose his job amid accusations that he strip-searched five girls who were accused of stealing money from another...
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Byron Clark, Christchurch
Social Welfare minister Paula Bennett came under criticism when it was announced that single mothers receiving the Domestic Purposes Benefit would no longer be able to...
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Allan, London
You can run..... but ya can’t hide! Weird looking vans are patrolling the streets of major cities in North America and Europe as we speak, taking pictures of...
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Reshmi, Bangalore
Yesterday morning, as I was leafing through the real estate ads in the newspaper, suddenly the catch line of an advertisement caught my attention. It said: “ Diwali,...
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Miguel Angel, Iquitos
By the gravity of the contents of the telephone recordings made public, it has overlooked the illegal method for having agreed to these audios through the interception...
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Hollan, Las Vegas
In 2006, for the first time in history, Pirates entered world politics in a big way. With the success of the Bit-torrent tracker The Pirate Bay.org, also based in...
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Reina, New York
Meet James Colliton, a disbarred corporate lawyer who served 19 months in jail after bribing a mother so he could sleep with her 13 and 15 year-old daughters.
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Justin, Rochester
People don’t like showing up in Google Street View. Nobody wants their face to show up on Google Maps when they were just minding their own business buying home...
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Naresh Chauhan, Shimla
Yes: # The extensive network of public surveillance cameras help in intercepting a threat coming our way. # Use of web of surveillance has been turning into an...
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This photo, supplied by th U.S.Navy, shows the commanding officer of a U.S. Navy guided-missile cruiser monitors the pirated Ukrainian cargo ship Faina in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Somalia Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008, while one of his helicopters...