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Viacom-YouTube Ruling Triggers Far-Reaching Privacy Concerns
The ruling which demands Google to hand over the YouTube access logs, which are to show the actual...
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Google Homepage Adds Privacy Link
Google's homepage at google.com has been changed: the search engine leader has decided that a...
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Viacom Gets The Logs, Google Gets To Keep The Source Code
Viacom got a partial victory in the $1 billion lawsuit
against Google Inc. and its YouTube...
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Government Sued Over Unconstitutional Cell Phone Tracking Practices
The controversy over mobile phone tracking is far from being
a settled issue, as two civil rights...
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Charter Thinks Twice About Customer Tracking Plan
Charter Communications, the U.S. cable/Internet provider,
decided to suspend its plans to monitor...
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FCC Rules against Verizon despite Martin's Opinion
On Friday, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission ruled against Verizon claiming that the...
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FCC Says that Verizon's Customer-Keeping Practices Were Wrong
Apparently, FCC will rule in favor of cable companies against Verizon Communications Inc., claiming...
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Citysense Offers A Special Set Of Nightlife Information
Sense Networks released on Monday a new, rather unique,
online tool named Citysense, which will...
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Advocacy Groups, Google Argue Over Privacy Policy Link
Google managed to upset several privacy
advocacy groups over the lack of visibility of its privacy...
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Facebook Might Be Violating Canada Privacy Rules
The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic has filed a complaint stating that Facebook...
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Google Maps Dismissed By A Comunity From Minnesota
Google Maps Street View, Google’s popular panoramic street-viewing feature, received several...
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HP Private Investigators Fined $600,000 For Illicit Gains
Private investigators in the
infamous HP spying case, dating back to 2005, have been fined...
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Google Confused, Facebook Wants To Sit Down And Talk
Just a couple of days after
Facebook decided to block Google’s new service, Friend Connect, from...
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Facebook Bans Google’s Friend Connect
Facebook has stated in a post on their blog that it will
block Google’s Friend Connect service...
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EU Shows Concerns over Google’s Street View Service
Google Maps’ Street View has drawn some attention from the
European Union, which has shown...
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Google Changes Its Street View Program
Due to a large number of privacy complaints, Google Inc. decided to make a change in its Street...
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Hacker Posts Data Of 6M Chilean Residents On The Internet
A security breach on Chilean
government data at the end of last week ended up alarming people...
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Court Orders Facebook To Turn Info On Fake Profile Author
The authors of a fake Facebook
profile, set up in the name of Roncalli High School Dean Tim...
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TorrentSpy Must Pay Big For Piracy Accusations
A federal judge decided that TorrentSpy Company must pay the
Motion Picture Association of America...
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Facebook Offers More Safety to Children
After long
negotiations, social networking site Facebook agreed Thursday on a safety plan...
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Online Privacy Prevails as NJ Court Demands Valid Subpoena
New Jersey’s Supreme Court has ruled that a valid subpoena is required to demand ISPs to reveal the...
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Microsoft Presents Thoughts On Online Privacy
A few days ago, The
Federal Trade Commission presented their proposition on the guidelines for...
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Yahoo Gives Green Light To Video Sharing On Flickr
Yahoo unveiled on Tuesday that
the popular online photo-sharing website Flickr will now have a...
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Google Believes Data Retention Limit In EU Report To Be Too Low
Despite search engine providers’ claims
that the longer they keep users’ data, the better search...
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Facebook and ConnectU Reportedly On The Verge Of A Settlement
Facebook is not very talkative
on the legal dispute with ConnectU (neither are they), but is looks...
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Couple Sues Google ‘Street View’ For Privacy Violation
Google’s “Street View” not only made the Pentagon say its images
pose a threat to national...
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TorrentSpy.com Shuts Down Forever
TorrentSpy.com, once one of the most popular torrent search
engines, has decided to cease its...
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Online Privacy - An Oxymoron?
Security settings are not and will never be perfect and
people are quite aware of that and still,...
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JuicyCampus.com – Too ‘Juicy’ For Attorney General’s Taste
The Office of the Attorney
General and the Division of Consumer Affairs has subpoenaed...
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Facebook Keeps Users Happy Through Privacy Control Upgrades
Facebook tends towards offering
users more control over their own profile pages in terms of...
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Health
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Former Anthrax Suspect Gets $5.82 M Lawsuit Settlement
The Justice Department offered $5.82 million settlement to the former number one suspect in the...
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Microsoft, Kaiser to Initiate Medical Records Program
Two weeks after Google has officially launched its
long-awaited Google Health, a product enabling...
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Google Health Service Is Finally Here
The internet search giant Google Inc. has finally launched
its long-awaited Google Health...
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Tracheotomy Performed on Himself Saves Man’s Live
Facing the threat of death, a Nebraska man decided to no longer wait for
the ambulance to come and...
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Online Storage of Medical Records Raises Privacy Issues
Following Microsoft and Google’s intentions to enter the
medical field with programs designed to...
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One More Case of Measles Reported in Wisconsin
Three new cases of measles have been reported in
southeastern Wisconsin,
raising the total this...
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The UCLA Employee: ‘It Was Just Me Being Nosy’
The UCLA Medical Center
employee who improperly looked at 61 patients’ medical records in 2006...
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Governor:‘I Have Been a Victim of This in My Own Hospital Visits’
Following 32 medical records being breached at UCLA Medical
Center, including his
wife’s,...
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Maria Shriver’s Medical Records Breached at UCLA Medical Center
Last year, there was Farrah Fawcett, then Britney Spears at
the beginning of this year and now,...
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Ex Philippine President Corazon Aquino Has Colon Cancer
Former Philippine president Corazon Aquino is suffering from
colon cancer, her daughter...
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Surgeon at Methodist Hospital Removes Healthy Kidney by Mistake
Minnesota
hospitals have struggled for years to eliminate wrong-site surgeries, but just as
soon...
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Report: Florida Medical Records End up as Scrap Paper
The private medical records of 28 Central
Regional Hospital
patients were sold last month at a...
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Privacy Concerns Rise over Google Health Program
Following Google Inc.’s announcement of a pilot project,
which will store medical records of a few...
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Google to Extend Business in Medical Field
Google Inc. plans to store medical records to test a service
whereby people can retrieve their...
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Ind. Slaughterhouse Illness Possibly Linked to Minn. Outbreak
The case of the two ill workers at an unidentified Indiana pig slaughterhouse is being investigated...
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Resident Surgeon Takes Pictures of Patient Genitals
Mayo Clinic Hospital CEO Denis Cortese posted a statement on
the hospital’s official web site...
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Half of Doctors Do Not Report Their Incompetent Colleagues
Nearly half of the U.S. doctors fail to report
incompetent and unethical colleagues, even though...
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Find Out More About You!
DeCode Genetics, a company based
in Iceland,
revealed on Friday a brand new service that simply...
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New Study: Abortion Pills Not Affecting Later Pregnancies
A recent study has showed that the ultimate way of abortion,
the abortion pills, do not seem to...
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Specials
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Mini-Me Sues TMZ
Verne
Troyer, who played Mini-Me in the last two Austin Powers
movies, filed a 20 million-dollar...
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When Going Out Of The U.S. It's Best To Leave Your Laptop At Home
A highly debated issue on this week’s agenda is the set of
rules for the airport routine searches...
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Hulk Hogan’s Son Has a Hard Time in Jail, Wants Home
Nick Bollea, Hulk Hogan's son, who is currently serving a sentence of 8 months in prison for a...
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Princess Diana's Killer Found: Driver Henri Paul
The 11-member jury in the inquest into the death of the late Princess Diana and her last lover Dodi...
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Heather Mills Cites Privacy Issues for Her Appeal
Heather Mills, now officially ex-wife of Beatle legend Paul McCartney, wished to appeal against the...
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Michelle and Matilda To Be Taken Care of by Ledger Family
The family of late actor Heath Ledger is assuring all that
former fiancée Michelle Williams and...
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Daughter and Ex Fiancée – ‘Absolute Priority’ for Ledger’s Family
Two months after Heath Ledger’s death, the New York Daily News reveals that he drafted a will in...
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Ledger Family Back Home for Final Farewell
Heath Ledger’s family arrived in Australia on Tuesday to attend the private funeral that will...
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Lily Allen Suffers Unfortunate Miscarriage
British singer Lily Allen suffered a miscarriage earlier this week, leaving her and boyfriend Ed...
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Appeals Court Favors NASA JPL Employees
Yesterday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Los Angeles awarded a temporary injunction against...
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Chuck Norris Sues Satirical Book Author and Publisher
On Friday, action actor and
martial arts expert Chuck Norris filed a lawsuit against the author...
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Accumulation of Data Online Good for Advertising Business
Recently Ask.com introduced the AskEraser that stops the site from collecting information about a...
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Google Online Storage Service, From Rumor To Reality?
The Wall Street Journal has just reignited an old rumor:
Google is, not-so-secretly, working to...
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Apple and AT&T Unveil iPhone Service Plans
In few days iPhone will hit the store shelves and today
Apple with their partner AT&T decided...
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People
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Verne “Mini-Me” Troyer Sues TMZ Over Sex Tape
Verne Troyer, the actor who played Dr. Evil's Mini-Me in the last two Austin Powers movies,...
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A Baby Girl For Jamie Lynn Spears
Britney Spears’ younger sister, Jamie Lynn, gave birth to a
baby girl Thursday at a Mississippi...
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Jamie Lynn Spears Has a Baby Girl
Jamie Lynn, Britney Spears’ little sister has become a mom. Yesterday she has given birth to a baby...
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Bill Murray's Wife Files For Divorce, Claims Abuse
U.S. comedian Bill Murray's wife of eleven years has filed for divorce citing shocking reasons such...
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Shania Twain's Husband Talks About Separation
Shortly after the news of Shania Twain's split from her husband Robert John "Mutt" Lange...
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Angelina Jolie Drops Delivery Location And Due Date Hints
Now that it's confirmed Angelina Jolie will soon be bringing two more babies into this world,...
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Liv Tyler And Hubby Confirm Separation
Actress Liv Tyler raised questions regarding her marriage when she appeared at New York's Costume...
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Star Jones Talks About Filing For Divorce
The news of Star Jones' divorce from her husband of three years, banker Al Reynolds, finally hit...
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Rumor Mill: Heath's Potential Love Child
More drama is added to the sad story of Heath Ledger’s untimely demise, as one of his uncles...
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Angie and Brad Not Married – Or So They Say
Excited news that Hollywood superstars and tabloid
obsessions Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie had...
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Hospital Workers Fired for Peeking into Britney’s Medical Records
Several employees of the UCLA Medical
Center will be fired or
disciplined for looking at Britney...
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Heath Ledger Died of Six-Drug Accidental Overdose
Heath Ledger, 28, died of accidental intoxication brought on by his abuse of a cocktail of...
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Jamie-Lynn Cashes In $1 Million For Exclusive Baby Photo Shoot
Not long after the news on Jamie-Lynn
Spears’ pregnancy came out, OK! magazine reportedly agreed...
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Britney’s Baby Sister Is Pregnant
Britney Spears’ 16-year-old sister Jamie-Lynn Spears confirmed to OK! magazine that she is pregnant...
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Quiet Riot's Kevin DuBrow Found Dead In Las Vegas Home
Authorities are currently investigating the sudden, mysterious death of Quiet Riot lead singer,...
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Dennis Quaid's Twins Are Recovering from Drug Overdose
The two-week-old twins of actor Dennis Quaid, who were born via a gestational carrier on November...
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Dennis Quaid’s Twins In Danger After Medical Mishap
Actor Dennis Quaid and his wife Kimberly Buffington’s newborn twins are reportedly struggling for...
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Donny Osmond Apologizes to Larry King for Criticism
Donny Osmond apologized to Larry King Monday on the “Today” show after berating the...
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Marie Osmond Proud Her Son Checked Into Rehab
The entertainer’s 16-year-old son, Michael Osmond, checked into rehab last week for unspecified...
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Donda West's Doctor Had A Troubled Medical Past
Plastic surgeon Jan Adams, who operated on musician Kanye West’s mother one day before she...
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Kanye West’s Mother Dies In LA Hospital (Update)
The rapper’s mother and manager Donda West, 58, who also served as chief executive of West Brands...
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Kanye West’s Mother, Donda West, Dies
Kanye West’s mother, Donda West, the former chairwoman of Chicago State University's
English...
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Owen Wilson’s Interview Sheds No Light On Suicide Attempt
During his first official post-suicide attempt interview,
Hollywood actor Owen Wilson failed to...
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Leaking George Clooney's Medical Records Leads to Suspension
Hospital employees that allegedly accessed information from George Clooney's medical records...
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Justin Timberlake's Kind Words about Britney
Someone finally has something nice to say about Britney Spears and it’s none other than...
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