"internet privacy" news, interviews, and features

News about internet privacy

• Apple, Cisco, Dell unhappy over alleged NSA back doors in their gear

  Germany's Der Spiegel reports that the NSA has compromised a wide range of hardware for years to enable its spying

• NEWS FOCUS: Facebook-safe or Facebook-sorry?

  How to protect your security and privacy on Facebook

• Internet privacy conflicts

  The Wall Street Journal just published the sixth article in its excellent series about Internet privacy, or the lack of it.

• Surveys: Social-networking users worry about privacy

  Results from The Marist Institute for Public Opinion and Webroot show privacy is still a concern for many

• Facebook targets face-tagging in photos

  It's testing a new feature intended to simplify identifying people in pictures

• Privacy add-ons merged to create powerful tool for Web browsers

  TACO with Abine blocks tracking from 95 advertising networks and shows users how they're tracked by Web sites

Features about internet privacy

• The Open Source Rookies of the Year Awards

  Black Duck picks the top 10 open source projects launched in the past year.

• Our Internet privacy is at risk -- but not dead (yet)

  Legislation, stealth technologies, and emerging data privacy markets are proving that the battle for our Net privacy has only just begun

• Our Internet privacy is at risk -- but not dead (yet)

  Legislation, stealth technologies, and emerging data privacy markets are proving that the battle for our Internet privacy has only just begun

• Can Facebook privacy be simple?

  After months of relentless bad publicity about its privacy assumptions and controls, Facebook has heard a message -- maybe not "the" message, but at least ...

• Is there a replacement for Facebook?

  Will a significant percentage of Facebook users actually leave?

• Facebook's privacy fixes can't cure stupid

  Facebook deserves blame for messing with its privacy settings, but people will still embarrass themselves on the Internet