Social networking, and the broader concept of online privacy, have been under some rather intense scrutiny over the past couple of weeks. The issues at Google–voracious indexer of all things Internet, and Facebook–the largest social network and number one most visited site (according to Google) have made [...]
In what may go down in Internet history as the Facebook Privacy Scandal, the leading social-networking site over the past week took the covers off a simplified privacy policy. But some privacy advocates say it’s not enough. And some analysts expect more privacy changes to come.
The ACLU’s [...]
KT Chief Executive Lee Suk-chae speaks to the media during a news conference at the company’s Gwanghwamun office building in Seoul May 31, 2010. KT, South Korea’s top fixed-line operator and No. 2 [...]
A Google worker recorded video in Paris last year. Google says it inadvertently collected data from unsecured Wi-Fi networks.
BERLIN — Google has balked at requests from regulators to surrender Internet data and fragments of e-mail messages that it collected from unsecured [...]
Simon Fuller
“American Idol” creator Simon Fuller is trying to buy the company that owns the hit show.
Sources confirm to Billboard.biz that the TV mogul and ex-Barclays Capital banker Roger Jenkins will submit a letter outlining a $600 million bid for [...]
German Consumer Protection Minister Ilse Aigner
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Germany’s national consumer-protection agency may take legal measures against Facebook if it finds that the social network’s [...]
Denise New wipes her eye in a courtroom at the Clark County Courthouse in Arkadelphia, Ark., Thursday, May [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Three men have been indicted in connection with a Ukraine-based fraud scheme which tricked Internet users into believing their computers were infected and collected some 100 million dollars, officials said Thursday.
Internet users in more than 60 [...]
It looks like Zynga, the casual online games developer known for its wildly popular farm simulations, ticking off Facebook, and alleged “lead generation” scams just added another lifeline to its list of audience-expanding deals by cozying up to Yahoo.
Talk about sweet deals, the move would put Zynga’s games in front of Yahoo’s entire 600 million [...]
A concert by Elton John has tested the limits of Morocco’s drive for modernity, probing this Muslim nation’s complex and ambiguous attitudes toward homosexuality like rarely before.
Islamists in the North African kingdom were outraged by the gay pop star’s visit, while the royal palace, government and his many fans backed his appearance Wednesday night.
No riots [...]
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