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Social network site Facebook began informing its members Wednesday that it will open users' basic profiles to non-members searching the site. In addition, over the next few weeks, the site will begin allowing search engines access to the public profiles in its database. The social networking site ha...
A group of New York City taxicab drivers kept their cars parked Wednesday to protest the forced installation in their vehicles of devices that use GPS positioning and allow credit card payments. The 48-hour strike, urged by the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, began at 5 a.m. Reports varied about the...
In an attempt to combat what it views as illicit activities, the Chinese government announced Tuesday it will deploy two virtual police officers to patrol the Internet, according to reports from the state-run China Daily. The cartoon cops, one male and one female, will hit their beat Saturday and wi...
It appears that Sony could have another rootkit scandal on its hands if a recent report from Finnish security firm F-Secure proves true. The problem concerns a hidden directory contained in software for Sony's MicroVault USM-F thumb drive. The files, according to F-Secure, could be accessed by hacke...
A group of New York City taxi drivers say they are going to strike for at least two days in September to protest a regulation calling for all city cabs to be equipped with GPS tracking technology. Starting on Oct. 1, all 13,000 taxis must have touch-screens and GPS when they come up for inspection....
Employers are denying a growing number of workers access to Facebook, the now ubiquitous social networking site, a Sophos survey shows. The poll queried 600 visitors to the security firm's Web site over a period of weeks earlier this summer. Some 43 percent said they had been denied access to Facebo...
The battle over the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping efforts escalated Monday as the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee threatened to hold White House officials in contempt for flouting an already-extended deadline to respond to a June subpoena. The subpoena by the Senate Judici...
After a special court made a secret ruling sometime in the last few months limiting the government's authority to eavesdrop on phone calls and e-mails, the Bush administration and Congressional Democrats are now at odds on how best to protect the privacy of Americans while maintaining national secur...
The Internet is the greatest educational tool since the advent of books, but it is also a sinister playground for prowling predators searching for young prey. It is particularly unnerving to think that these predators can enter a living room undeterred by locks or alarms, and unseen by parents or th...
A Congressional hearing on Tuesday investigating inadvertent file sharing over peer-to-peer networks unexpectedly put a spotlight on LimeWire Chairman Mark Gorton over the government and personal information that can be acquired over P2P networks without users' knowledge. Gorton's company makes the ...
Yahoo became the latest major Internet search provider to alter its user privacy policy Monday. Under the new plan, the company said, it will anonymize search histories after only 13 months, five months earlier than its search competitors at Google, Microsoft and Ask.com. "One of the core tenets of ...
Microsoft announced Sunday a new set of privacy principles for Live Search and online advertising data collection, use and protection. The principles delineate newly enhanced steps the company will implement to protect the privacy of Windows Live users. Chief among the revamped privacy directives is...
First Jeeves got the old heave-ho; now Ask.com is ready to give user data the boot as well. In an apparent effort to one-up its much larger competitors in the field of user privacy, Ask.com unveiled its new AskEraser, a utility that the company said "will offer its searchers unmatched control over t...
Google's decreased the length of time and amount of information the company holds on users' preferences and searches Monday with the announcement that it will shorten the lifespan of the small parcels of information it stores on users' computers, known as "cookies." The lifespan of Google's cookies ...
Drivers have become accustomed to security cameras that catch a license plate number when someone violates a traffic law at toll booths and even stoplights. However, the lowly traffic camera is sparking a whole new debate in its role as part of the homeland security initiative that the New York Poli...
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