Tag Archives: privacy issues

Microsoft takes Bing Streetside offline in Germany, privacy complaints to blame

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Germany is notoriously privacy-minded, and services like Facebook’s Friend Finder and Google’s Street View have come under scrutiny in the country’s courts. The latest offender to raise Germany’s ire is Bing Streetside, a Street View-style photo serv…


Microsoft takes Bing Streetside offline in Germany, privacy complaints to blame

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Germany is notoriously privacy-minded, and services like Facebook’s Friend Finder and Google’s Street View have come under scrutiny in the country’s courts. The latest offender to raise Germany’s ire is Bing Streetside, a Street View-style photo serv…


FBI reportedly pressing for backdoor access to Facebook, Google

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Investigators at the FBI supposedly aren’t happy that social networks like Facebook or Google+ don’t have the same kind of facility for wiretaps that phones have had for decades. If claimed industry contacts for CNET are right, senior staff at the bu…


EU: Google’s new privacy policy breaches European law

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Remember how proud Google was when it unified all of its services under a single privacy policy? Well, Big G’s excitement was tempered when the EU asked it to hold off on the policy’s implementation while it investigated the changes. And its enthusias…


China wants microbloggers to register with the government, hand over real identity

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Thought that Facebook’s and Google+’s requirements that you use your real name were draconian? Just be thankful you’re not a weibo addict in China. The government is planning to expand a program that demands users register their real names and disclos…


Telecoms win immunity in wiretapping case, US court approves separate suit against the government

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Looks like a case of good news-bad news for the Electronic Frontier Foundation in its fight against warrantless wiretapping. A US appeals court upheld a 2008 ruling, granting telecoms such as AT&T, Verizon and Sprint immunity for cooperating with t…