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Google's new personalized search raises antitrust concerns

Google's new personalized search raises antitrust concerns

Google is diving deeper into personalized search results, debuting a feature called "Google Plus Your World". But the debut of the service, which pulls results from your own content plus social circles from Google-owned services may catch the ire of regulat...

Google's new personalized search raises antitrust concerns
US lawmakers accuse Facebook of ducking questions on its privacy practices
US lawmakers accuse Facebook of ducking questions on its privacy practices
Reps. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Joe Barton (R-Texas) accused Facebook of evading questions about whether it tracks users in order to deliver targeted ads on Monday.
Facebook set for suit over publicity; Case hinges on 'sponsored stories' appearing on many pages
Facebook set for suit over publicity; Case hinges on 'sponsored stories' appearing on many pages
Facebook’s practice of showing people that their friends “like” specific products could run afoul of a California law that gives both celebrities and ordinary citizens the right to control how their names and pictures are used for commercial endorsements.
Author Says Facebook Is Making Us Miserable
Author Says Facebook Is Making Us Miserable
Facebook has changed the way many people communicate with family and friends — but some believe it’s not always for the better.
U.S. probing alleged cyberattack plot by Venezuela, Iran
U.S. probing alleged cyberattack plot by Venezuela, Iran
U.S. officials are investigating reports that Iranian and Venezuelan diplomats in Mexico were involved in planned cyberattacks against U.S. targets, including nuclear power plants.
US senator To Google: Ban Terrorist Content
US senator To Google: Ban Terrorist Content
In the wake of news that terror suspect Jose Pimentel was operating a jihadist Blogger site, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) is urging Google to implement a system that bans terrorist material.
'Rogue websites' bill introduced in US House
'Rogue websites' bill introduced in US House
US lawmakers introduced a bill on Wednesday that would give US authorities more tools to crack down on websites accused of piracy of movies, television shows and music and the sale of counterfeit goods.
U.S. Debated Cyberwarfare in Attack Plan on Libya
U.S. Debated Cyberwarfare in Attack Plan on Libya
Just before the American-led strikes against Libya in March, the Obama administration intensely debated whether to open the mission with a new kind of warfare: a cyberoffensive to disrupt and even disable the Qaddafi government’s air-defense system, which t...
Google's new personalized search raises antitrust concerns
Google's new personalized search raises antitrust concerns
Google is diving deeper into personalized search results, debuting a feature called "Google Plus Your World". But the debut of the service, which pulls results from your own content plus social circles from Google-owned services may catch the ire of regulat...

US Government Orders Google to Turn Over WikiLeaks Info

Attorney General Eric Holder, top, has said the U.S. is pursuing an 'active criminal investigation' of WikiLeaks.

Google and a smaller Internet provider are being forced by the federal government to turn over information from email...

US Government Orders Google to Turn Over WikiLeaks Info

Internet firms co-opted for surveillance: experts

Internet firms co-opted for surveillance: experts

Internet companies such as Google, Twitter and Facebook are increasingly co-opted for surveillance work as the inform...

Internet firms co-opted for surveillance: experts

'We didn't mean to track you' says Facebook as social network giant admits to 'bugs' in new privacy row

Exposed: Australian technology blogger Nik Cubrilovic has uncovered Facebook's practices of tracking users when they are offline

Facebook has admitted that it has been watching the web pages its members visit – even when they have logged out.

'We didn't mean to track you' says Facebook as social network giant admits to 'bugs' in new privacy row

Pentagon launches war court website

Pentagon launches war court website

The Pentagon on Wednesday morning went live with a new, slicker interactive military commissions website — with no ne...

Pentagon launches war court website

Kuwait court jails tweeter for insulting Shiites

Kuwait court jails tweeter for insulting Shiites

A Kuwaiti court on Sunday sentenced a Sunni Islamist activist to three months in jail for writing remarks on his Twit...

Kuwait court jails tweeter for insulting Shiites

Google Rivals Are Readying An Antitrust Assault

Google Rivals Are Readying An Antitrust Assault

Three Internet companies—Nextag Inc., Yelp Inc. and Expedia Inc.—are gearing up to attack Google Inc. on Capitol Hill...

Google Rivals Are Readying An Antitrust Assault

Time Warner Cable Launches Wi-Fi in LA

Time Warner Cable Launches Wi-Fi in LA

Time Warner Cable had a pretty rocky time when they first acquired Adelphia's cable and broadband networks in the reg...

Time Warner Cable Launches Wi-Fi in LA

WikiLeaks website comes under cyberattack

WikiLeaks website comes under cyberattack

The WikiLeaks website crashed Tuesday in an apparent cyberattack after the accelerated publication of tens of thousan...

WikiLeaks website comes under cyberattack

Google Tests Ultra-Fast Fiber Internet Service

Google Tests Ultra-Fast Fiber Internet Service

Google has changed the way people search on the internet, now it’s changing the way some people surf the web. Hundred...

Google Tests Ultra-Fast Fiber Internet Service

New data spill shows risk of online health records

New data spill shows risk of online health records

Until recently, medical files belonging to nearly 300,000 Californians sat unsecured on the Internet for the entire w...

New data spill shows risk of online health records

Iran says it can block 'Internet in a suitcase'

Iran says it can block 'Internet in a suitcase'

Iran's intelligence minister said Friday that his country has found a way to block the so-called "Internet in a suitc...

Iran says it can block 'Internet in a suitcase'

Alert system to notify consumers of online piracy

Alert system to notify consumers of online piracy

Hollywood studios, recording labels, artists and Internet service providers have created a program to alert Internet ...

Alert system to notify consumers of online piracy
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