Internet privacy has become a hot issue as technology to track user movements online has become more widespread. Much of the debate centers on “behavioral advertising,” through which businesses target ...

A Federal Trade Commission official on Thursday issued a warning of sorts to Internet companies: stop collecting information about your users by default, and give them shorter, more conspicuous ...

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In March, coinciding with the one-year anniversary of a crackdown on protests in Tibetan regions in China, people across the PRC found they couldn’t access YouTube—which had hosted videos of the ...

Tracking Internet users through their IP addresses has always been a controversial privacy issue for companies. Google has also faced numerous lawsuits over tracking Android users and using GeoIP to ...

Maybe you’ve heard of Netvibes. Fact is, the company has been around for a few years, with some pretty major structural changes through that time. At first, it was a start page (think iGoogle), then ...