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Serving as a possible template for reforming the ECPA, a 29 year old spearheaded the Texas bill adopting the strongest email privacy laws in...

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Scroogled ads hitting the airwaves again, this time taking on Gmail and how they generate ads based on words used in emails, which Microsoft...

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Web privacy is a hot topic as social networking has gone mainstream, and you may want a little protection from the internet. That's where...

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Social media privacy laws are being established in a select few states to determine what rights employees and employers have as a means of...

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Browsers

Everyone knows that by the mere act of using the web, we are all leaking information like a sieve, but Privacyfix shows you where...

Social Media

Today, major changes were made to COPPA that all website owners need to be aware of, but major questions remain unanswered.

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Facebook settles with the FTC In 2008, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charged Facebook for violating users’ privacy and today, a settlement agreement has...

Opinion Editorials

Better design is needed right away Facebook has made a major mess of privacy settings as they set and reset users’ default settings, hoping...

Social Media

A Mississippi woman is suing Facebook for allegedly violating federal wiretap laws by tracking her web use while she was not logged into the...

Social Media

New option in Google+ settings Since Google+ has gone beta, many tech pundits have clamored for Facebook to follow suit with some of the...

Social Media

Facebook forming a PAC Facebook has filed paperwork to form a political action committee (FB PAC), after years of increased spending on lobbying, over...

Social Media

Facebook + Google+ = Google+ + Facebook? It’s only fair that if Google is going to make their +1 buttons more like Facebook Like...

Smartphones

Mobile phone privacy Apple made headlines this year when it was discovered that iPhones could be tracking users’ moves and the company was storing...

Politics

A new Congress is in full swing here in Washington and policy agendas are shaping up for 2011. In the technology area, a perennial...

Social Media

Do we or do we not want privacy? Benn Rosales wrote here on Agent Genius an article entitled, “Do we have a reasonable right...

Housing News

Yesterday, Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA) and Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL) released a discussion draft of comprehensive privacy legislation that has been in the works...

Housing News

Several changes at Facebook In preparation for their upcoming F8 Developer Converence, Facebook has announced a series of changes, beginning with new privacy settings,...

Housing News

Location Data is the Latest Target for Lawmakers This week’s main event for tech policy had to be the House Commerce Committee’s hearing on...

Housing News

Believe it or not, something other than healthcare and jobs was on the minds of policymakers in Washington this week. For tech wonks, the...

Housing News

FTC to Refocus Privacy Efforts So I’ve notice a good deal of discussion here on Agent Genius related to privacy. I thought I’d devote...

Housing News

Facebook is a unique social network We’ve been talking about privacy issues online for some time, but most recently, conversation was sparked by Benn’s...

Housing News

To be fair, the FTC gets it In his opening remarks of the Federal Trade Commission Conference today, Chairman Jon Leibowitz of the FTC...

Politics

Old school first With the telephone we were given the ability to opt out of telephone books and information lines (1411) and also the...

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Business News

A home care nurse's tragic death is now placing this agency in hot water with OSHA, with calls to address their negligence in safety.

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Opinion Editorials

It is easy to lose sight of everything on your to do list which makes hiring a personal assistant seem super attractive. But do...

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