Topic: United States

Advocacy groups ask feds to probe privacy breach in release of immigrant list in UtahAdvocacy groups have asked federal officials to investigate last month's release of a list of 1,300 purported illegal immigrants in Utah. The organizations asked regional Food Stamp and ...
South Korean police Tuesday searched the offices of Google Korea to investigate whether it breached privacy law in collecting information for its Street View service, an officer said. "We searched Google Korea as it is suspected of breaching the law on the ...
A number of companies try to do right by their customers by installing protections - before a data breach happens, says Ford's Scott Roundy. Dan Kaplan investigates.It was not too long ago that failures on Wall Street and the soaring price of ...
Reactions are mixed to a proposed U.S. House bill that would govern the collection, use and dissemination of consumer information and impose fines of up to $5 million for violators.A U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on Thursday discussed a bill that would ...
News media, law enforcement in Utah get list of 1,300 names of alleged undocumented immigrantsA list containing the names and personal information of 1,300 illegal immigrants has been mailed around Utah, terrifying the state's Hispanic community. Gov. Gary Herbert wrote in a ...
Google has deleted private wireless data mistakenly collected by its "Street View" cars in Austria, Denmark and Ireland, the Internet giant said in a letter to US lawmakers. Google, in the letter posted online Friday on the website of the Energy and ...

Connecticut to ask Google if collected WiFi data

BOSTON (Reuters) - Connecticut's top prosecutor plans to call on Google Inc on Monday to say whether it had collected data from personal and business wireless networks without the owners' permission. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal will make the call at a Hartford, ...
Google this week was hit with a third class-action lawsuit over its collection of information from unprotected Wi-Fi networks.Google this week was hit with a third class-action lawsuit over its admitted collection of information from unprotected Wi-Fi networks.The most recent lawsuit was ...
Facebook has called a Wednesday press conference to discuss "enhanced, simpler" privacy controls designed to appease concerns about safeguarding information at the social-networking service. Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and other senior executives are slated to take part in the briefing, which will ...

Facebook 'missed the mark' on privacy: founder

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said Monday that the social network "missed the mark" with its privacy controls and will be revealing simpler features in the coming weeks. "Sometimes we move too fast -- and after listening to recent concerns, we're responding," ...
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