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Zuckerberg faces questions over Facebook breach

...the US House of Representatives have demanded answers about Facebook's latest privacy breach from the company's chief executive Mark Zuckerberg. The Wall Street... Read more

21 October, 2010 by Declan McCullagh

Facebook admits tracking problems with cookies

...issue in November last year, he said. There was no security or privacy breach—Facebook did not store or use any information it should not... Read more

28 September, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Anonymity loophole puts UK data at risk

...Bowden said. "In my view [this database was] perhaps the most significant privacy breach [or] flouting of the data-protection prescriptions on the transport of... Read more

23 March, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

Apple hit with lawsuit over mobile app privacy leaks

...on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see Apple sued for mobile app privacy breach on ZDNet Asia. Get the latest technology news and analysis, blogs... Read more

30 December, 2010 by Kevin Kwang

Google fires employee for security breach

...more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see Google fired engineer for privacy breach on CNET News Read more

15 September, 2010 by Tom Krazit

Privacy: what Windows Live knows about your friends

...impressed that I was quite surprised when a reader complained about the privacy breach they felt was implicit in the opt-out section of the... Read more

2 August, 2010
Prifacy 1.1.4

Prifacy 1.1.4

...your privacy settings in easy to understand color codes andmanage your potential privacy breach and threat level rightwithin the application.Yes, Facebook can be as... Read more

15 February, 2011

Watchdog highlights 'horrifying' security lapses

Information Commissioner's Office has called for stronger auditing and inspection powers following a range of security breaches in the past year Read more

11 July, 2007 by Tom Espiner

AOL axes staff over privacy breach

Three employees, including AOL's CTO, are leaving the Net giant after personal search data from thousands of members was released by mistake Read more

22 August, 2006 by Anne Broache and Elinor Mills

University staff accused of student data privacy breach

Staff at the prestigious Princeton University are accused of using students' data to break into an admissions Web site at a rival university to find out whether they'd been accepted Read more

27 July, 2002 by Margaret Kane

Network Solutions accused of privacy breach

The company that runs the .com, .org and .net top level domains is guilty of forwarding private e-mails to others who sent in help requests, say customers Read more

21 June, 2001 by Robert Lemos

Sony admits email privacy breach

Inherited InfoBeat bug was buried in banner ad Read more

9 November, 1999 by Will Knight

Privacy breach companies 'must be named

The public has a right to know, say silicon.com readers Read more

2 May, 2006 by Steve Ranger

CompuServe accused of privacy breach

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7 January, 1999 by Lisa Burroughes
Scheduled Location Transparency for Privacy-Protected MANET Location Services

Scheduled Location Transparency for Privacy-Protected MANET Location Services

...NETworks (MANETs) that use geographic routing protocols may lead to a severe privacy breach since the current position of any node in the network can... Read more

3 January, 2008

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SoapyTablet

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Yes it is basically down to "nobody in control understands IT, is willing to admit it, or allow decisions to be delegated". Lets get someone in who...

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pjc158

So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...

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Jake Rayson

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archerthom

I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

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unlockworldwide

May I quote Horace Dediu, who runs the consultancy Asmyco who has repeatedly observed that mobile phone companies that fall into loss – even once...

8 hours ago by unlockworldwide on RIM to lay off 2,000 on 1 June, says report
NarayanaIyyappan

It is useful for their lifes,and also this matters are important for networking students.

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DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

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Jack Strain

Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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itsajob

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Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

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UnderINK

I agree with the previous commenter wholeheartedly. I couldn't say it better myself. This is very 'Big Brother'. And while I agree with protecting...

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Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe

Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

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Jason Burchell

seriously now. I've only bothered to read a small bit of the comments. do me and the rest of the world a favour. stop saying it does not work or...

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Philip Charles Cohen

Read about it and weep, John Donahoe ... In addition to Visa’s V.me, there is now MasterCard’s PayPass digital wallet soon to arrive; another...

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apexwm

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openhgs has made the point for Windows 8 multiple monitors without realising it! With Windows 7 you have to switch the mouse and so your focus...

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