Update: Comcast has responded to the allegations. See also this post by EFF. Original story: Nathan Wold writes: If you needed another reason to hate Comcast, the most hated company in America, they’ve just given it to you: they’ve declared war on Tor Browser. Reports have surfaced (Via /r/darknetmarkets and another one submitted to us)…
Category: Online
Google urged to stick to European court privacy ruling
Nikolaj Nielsen reports: Privacy campaigners are urging Google to respect a European court ruling on the “right to be forgotten” as the Internet giant tours European capitals to debate the issue. Google has recieved 120,000 requests to remove names from its search engine (Photo: Carlos Luna) Google chief Eric Schmidt in Italy on Wednesday (10…
App of the Week: AVGPrivacyFix manages your privacy across social networks
Isabella Gutierrez writes: How exposed are you online? Now that having multiple social media accounts is commonplace and with privacy settings constantly changing, it’s not easy to keep tabs on who can see your personal information. That’s where the app AVGPrivacyFix comes in. This app tells users how their personal information is exposed on Facebook, Twitter, Google, Linkedin…
Why Privacy Policies Are So Inscrutable
Marcus Moretti and Michael Naughton report: … We work with data and research digital rights issues, and we were curious whether most popular websites respect your privacy as much as they claim to. So we gathered up and analyzed the 145,641 words that make up the privacy policies of the 50 most popular American websites….