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Google's move to cut the lifespan of its cookie's to a rolling two years may not be enough to appease a European Union privacy group whose major concern is server log data use.
Microsoft and Yahoo are set go public on their privacy policies after the controversy surrounding search giant Google's data-retention strategy.
A European Commission advisory group has raised concerns about how Google uses and manages users' search data.
IBM has developed software designed to let people keep personal information secret when doing business online and donated it to the Higgins open-source project.
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Anonymous Internet access may be a thing of the past, according to a doctoral student at the University of California.
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Two of the principal tools championed by industry "self-regulators" to preserve online consumer privacy rights, disclosure and anonymity are fast looking like a smoke screen to justify some extraordinary corporate intrusions.
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