Jason Kincaid writes: A Facebook developer named Yvo Schaap has uncovered a massive security flaw present on both Facebook and MySpace that would give hackers the ability to steal all of your account data, including your photos, personal messages, and basically everything else you’ve ever put on the social networks, without you ever realizing it….
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Google Dashboard lifts curtain on stored data
Tom Krazit reports: Google is proving to be well aware of the uneasiness among the public over the increasing amount of data it stores from users of its services. Google is launching Google Dashboard, a service that lets you log into a console and see all the personal data that the company maintains on a…
Experts meet to hash out web privacy rules: The Madrid Declaration
Hundreds of privacy experts from around the world met in Madrid on Wednesday for a three-day conference which aims to arrive at a global standard for the protection of personal data. US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano as well representatives from data protection agencies from 50 nations and top managers from key Internet firms like…
UK: Councils’ surveillance powers curbed
Alan Travis reports: The “surveillance state” powers of local authorities to snoop on the public are to be curbed under reforms announced by the home secretary, Alan Johnson. Junior council officials are to lose the authority to order surveillance operations including secret filming and eavesdropping for “trivial reasons” such as catching people putting out their…