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During his keynote interview TechCrunch's editor Michael Arrington at LeWeb10 in Paris this morning, Facebook's director for the company's developer network Ethan Beard noted that "no other company in the

Any of the interesting technology that came out of the launch of Google's real-time conversation tool Buzz last year was overshadowed by privacy concerns about the service. These stemmed from

Facebook today announced that application developers will be allowed to store user data for more than 24 hours, removing a major restriction that the company had imposed on its ecosystem

Earlier this year, a website called PleaseRobMe aggregated all of the messages from location-based services like Foursquare, Gowalla and BrightKite, and offered a listing of "all those empty homes out

Facebook confirmed today that it is working on a location-based product but said that it has re-evaluated its plans to focus more on places like restaurants. As part of a

Today is global Data Privacy Day and companies all around the world are marking it in different ways. Below we've highlighted some of the activities of Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Opera

A month ago, Canada's privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddard announced that Facebook did not satisfy Canadian privacy law on several counts. After an investigation prompted by the Canadian Internet Policy and

It was just last week when the privacy-focused Facebook alternative Diaspora posted an update on its development status, promising to "go faster." It may need to do just that not

If Facebook wants to comply with Canadian privacy laws, the company will have to make some changes to how it collects and retains information about its 12 million Canadian users.

Since its launch, Google's new web browser, Google Chrome, has been applauded for its lightweight look and feel and for the speed of its JavaScript engine. Although the browser still