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We've just spotted the new Facebook privacy options in the wild. As we wrote earlier this week, "the new privacy features will increase the granular control that Facebook has been

Google's Street View launched in the US last May, but expanding the service to Europe is proving to be a bit more difficult for Google. The Google Maps blog today

Fourth-ranked US search engine Ask.com is tonight releasing a new feature, AskEraser, that will let users control the destiny of their search data. When enabled, AskEraser will automatically delete any

We've heard tell that Facebook imposes a limit of 5000 friends. Really, just a measly 5000. They also keep doing pesky things like improving privacy controls. Well, we're sick of

In December when Facebook launched its friend lists feature, we theorized that it was a necessary first step that the network would need to take to attract the business social

We reported on the controversy around Google's Street View in the UK earlier this month. At that time, a number of UK privacy activists had raised concerns over the privacy

Yahoo today announced that it will allow its customers to opt out of customized advertising on Yahoo.com. Yahoo made this announcement in a response to the an inquiry by U.S.

Google China has released a Q&A site, in partnership with Tianya Club. The Make Meaning blog notes that Tianya Club was founded in 1999 and is one of the most

Perhaps in response to the campaign by MoveOn, perhaps just because they have always tweaked new features in the weeks following their launch, Facebook announced last night changes to its

freenigma is a Firefox plug-in that offers e-mail encryption to a whole range of Web email systems - including Gmail, Yahoo!Mail and Hotmail/MSN. It is a product of Germany-based freiheit.com.