The Mozilla Foundation has updated the German-language version of Firefox in a bid to defuse a growing controversy over the way its search toolbar handles private customer data.
eBay Australia has backed-up controversial privacy claims made by the director of law enforcement and compliance for eBay, but insists the online auction site obeys all Australian laws on the matter.
Privacy advocates are concerned over indications eBay Australia is likely to follow in the footsteps of its US counterpart and launch an authentication system to track sellers.
Over one million American Express, Royal Bank of Scotland and Natwest customers' details have been sold on eBay.
An online forum with eBay's Australian trust and safety director has highlighted the frustration many local users of the auction site feel at the speed of response to problems with fraud and account spoofing.
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US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.
Software-based phones are coming to the fore as big changes come to the way people make calls.
The rise in online identity fraud has companies on the hook: Either educate customers or lose them.
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Google should come clean on datacentres
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