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We reported yesterday that Google released private data belonging to Jacob Appelbaum, a Wikileaks volunteer, upon request from the U.S. Government. Both his list of contacts and his IP address

Today Google+'s photo app launched a new feature called Find My Face, which purports to make tagging photos of you and your friends much easier. Thankfully, this isn't a super

Microsoft developers planned "industry-leading" privacy features in Internet Explorer 8 that would have automatically blocked third-party tracking tools like beacons, but one feature was scaled back and another was dropped

In keeping with Facebook's two-steps-forward-one-step back policy, pioneered during the Beacon and friends list debacles, the company announced it would introduce a simplified set of privacy settings soon. "Now we've

According to an email from the Facebook CEO earlier today, Facebook is planning some changes to their much-debated privacy policies. Mark Zuckerberg told blogger Robert Scoble, "We're going to be

The Walt Disney Company has agreed to pay a $3 million settlement stemming from charges that online virtual worlds once operated by Playdom, now a Disney subsidiary, violated the Federal

We have written frequently about the various security loopholes that are part of Facebook but never described the step-by-step process that you need to take to lock things down. Now

During today's SXSW keynote, social media research Danah Boyd, who works for Microsoft Research New England and is a fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, talked

Facebook is holding a press conference this morning where the company's founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will discuss Facebook's progress in bringing enhanced and simpler privacy controls to the popular

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