Facing a federal complaint from a leading privacy advocacy organisation and a revolt of tens of thousands of its users, Facebook this week backed down from what many have seen as an onerous privacy policy.
Google has made a minor change to its homepage, adding a link that leads to the company's Privacy Center Web page.
Last week, the UK's Greater Manchester Police launched a Facebook application much to the consternation of privacy advocates.
Gathered at the Legal Futures Conference at California's Stanford University over the weekend, online legal experts have again raised their concerns that the rise and rise of Web 2.0 has come at the expense of individual privacy.
A European Commission advisory body has suggested that search companies delete data collected about their users after six months a far cry from what most companies currently do.
Discovering how your favourite search engine protects your privacy is not an easy task, despite recent moves from the major players to make policies more transparent.
Even if your organisation takes every possible precaution to protect its data, a security breach is often inevitable. What do you do if it happens? Mike Mullins offers some pointers for notifying those affected.
Would you mind if the government took a peek at your personal data? Do you trust the government to keep that data safe?
ID management expert Phil Libin says critics knocking an upcoming government security program miss the point.
The World Wide Web Consortium's Lorrie Cranor urges Webmasters to adopt better privacy regulations. Her message: Now is the time to start acting more responsibly.
ZoneAlarm Security Suite puts Norton Internet Security and McAfee Internet Security to shame with its easy-to-use features.
Kaspersky is a strong security suite, but that the extra features available in Internet Security make it worthwhile to pay for, whereas the standard Kaspersky Anti-Virus doesn't offer enough on its own to compare favourably against high-performing, free antivirus programs.
While Norton Confidential beta from Symantec aims to protect your online transactions, and its antisphishing toolbar compares favourably to Netcraft's own offering, we found the Norton package to be overly large, including many other Symantec applets that seem unnecessary.
By rewriting much of the code, Symantec made Norton AntiVirus 2007 faster and lighter than its 2006 version, but a few glitches here and there keep us from granting it our Editors' Choice award.
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