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• Europeans warn search engines: Delete user data sooner

  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.

• Patient tracking system unveiled to solve drug errors

  Australian citizens will be assigned a unique identifying number to help healthcare providers protect their patients from accidentally being given the wrong treatment.

• Microsoft promises privacy for Web searchers

  Microsoft has updated its privacy policy promising to remove the Internet Protocol (IP) address and other identifying data associated with Web searches after 18 months.

• EU needs more than cookie control from Google

  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 to go public on privacy policies?

  Microsoft and Yahoo are set go public on their privacy policies after the controversy surrounding search giant Google's data-retention strategy.

• European officials question Google's privacy policy

  A European Commission advisory group has raised concerns about how Google uses and manages users' search data.

• IBM donates new privacy tool to open source

  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.

• Technology hype comes under scrutiny

  Collaboration tools, podcasting and desktop search are emerging as key technology themes but other once-fashionable technologies are stuck in the mud, says Gartner.

• Tracking PCs anywhere on the Net

  Anonymous Internet access may be a thing of the past, according to a doctoral student at the University of California.

• Skype's VoIP ambitions

  Q&A Niklas Zennstrom may be Sweden's most famous serial entrepreneur.

• Experts: Sixth son of Sobig not the last

  Security researchers believe that the creator of the Sobig mass-mailing computer virus won't stop with a sixth creation, Sobig.F--the money may be too good.

• P2P's little secret

  File swappers hoping to share music and other works online without exposing their identity to the prying eyes of copyright enforcers face a tough choice.

• Aussie Cybercops: still playing catch-up?

  As cases of cybercrime continue to increase exponentially, police are facing limited human resources and funding to combat the problem. ZDNet Australia uncovers the strategies being used to fight cybercrime.

• UNIX tools track down hackers

  Catching malicious hackers isn't impossible. With the right tools, you can gather important information to help stop hack attacks. How can you use common UNIX tools to hunt down network attackers?

• Net privacy and the myth of self-regulation

  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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