When Privacy Laws Do More Harm Than Good
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Okay, I've read the 260 pages filed by the review panel that investigated the Virginia Tech shootings, and I understand that the university should have stepped in to help Seung Hui Cho but didn't, that Cho's parents should have alerted the college to his condition but didn't and that the state...
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The European Union investigates whether saving search data violates privacy laws.
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New online services could make you an even more inviting target for privacy attacks. Here's how.
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Proposed changes to law aim to deter insiders and others who sell or deliberately misuse confidential information.
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Researchers expose privacy problems with the iPod Nano and Nike running aid.
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Technological changes and   personal privacy have been at odds ever since modern notions of   privacy emerged more than a century ago.
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Should they call it something else? Six months after the government announced it would review whether data protection laws were a "barrier" to its information sharing plans, it is still not ready to share its views on the matter.â¦
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By Michael Liedtke Associated Press  SAN FRANCISCO -- Google Inc.'s privacy practices are the worst among the Internet's top destinations, according to a watchdog group seeking to intensify the recent focus on how the online search leader handles personal information about its users.
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Google Inc.'s privacy practices are the worst among the Internet's top destinations, according to a watchdog group. The group is seeking to intensify the recent focus on how the online search leader handles personal information about its users.
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New Web ads respond to your activities--and this has privacy advocates worried.
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Facebook's application platform could be the next battleground in the privacy wars. Will Facebook fold and finally respect user privacy?
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Calling video voyeurism the new frontier of stalking, the House on Tuesday approved legislation to make it a crime to secretly photograph or videotape people, often for lascivious purposes.    Under the legislation passed by voice vote, video voyeurism on federal lands would be punishable by a fine of not more than $100,000 or imprisonment for up to one year, or both...
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The sweeping four-year-old federal privacy law known by the acronym HIPAA, for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, may be responsible for an unintended consequence: impeding biomedical research.
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Attorney Eric J. Sinrod says the statistics belie the general impression that people are taking privacy precautions when they go online.
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The A.C.L.U. is collecting information in a fund-raising effort that has ignited a debate over its commitment to privacy rights.
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Google responds to attacks on its privacy record.
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Privacy laws could hurt the little guy, warns cryptographer Whitfield Diffie.