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New Facebook Privacy Options Go Live - May Overwhelm Users
Written by Richard MacManus / March 19, 2008 7:06 PM / 10 Comments

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

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Google's Street View Challenged in the UK
Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 4, 2008 9:33 AM / 11 Comments

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

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Ask.com Unveils Search Privacy Tool: Users Control Their Search Data
Written by Josh Catone / December 10, 2007 6:05 PM / 5 Comments

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

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Privacy is Overrated: nclüdr Makes Everyone Friends
Written by Josh Catone / April 10, 2008 10:14 AM / 5 Comments

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

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Facebook Improving Privacy Controls, Creating Chat App
Written by Josh Catone / March 18, 2008 1:24 PM / 7 Comments

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

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UK Privacy Watchdog: Google Streetview Can Go Ahead
Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 31, 2008 9:45 AM / 1 Comments

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

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Yahoo Gives You More Options to Opt Out of Personalized Advertising
Written by Frederic Lardinois / August 8, 2008 12:10 PM / 1 Comments

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.

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Google Launches Answers in China
Written by Richard MacManus / August 20, 2007 1:54 AM / 3 Comments

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

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Facebook Saves Christmas (By Making Changes to Beacon) - But Privacy Issues Still Loom
Written by Josh Catone / November 30, 2007 8:17 AM / 10 Comments

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

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freenigma: Encryption For Web-Based E-mail
Written by Richard MacManus / October 23, 2006 4:19 PM / 4 Comments

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.

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