Internet Companies Prepare for Online Privacy Fight

Emboldened by their victory in quashing online piracy legislation, U.S. Internet companies are gearing up for a battle over whether consumers should be able to restrict efforts to gather personal data. Google Inc, Facebook, Apple Inc and other tech companies have lobbied against congressional and federal agency proposals that would…

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Four ways for you to control your Google Privacy

Last week, Google rolled out its new privacy policy, condensing into one more than 60 former privacy policies across Google products, such as Gmail, GChat, Picassa, Google+ and YouTube. As part of the change, Google now shares the information it has about you among all of its services, creating one…

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Eric Schmidt leaves privacy out of his vision of the future

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt painted a messianic picture of our technological future on Monday, involving holographic telepresence, self-driving cars, automatic translation and the widespread deployment of 1Gbps Internet access over optical fiber, bringing transnational peace and communication to all. Schmidt was speaking at the opening ceremony of the Cebit trade…

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