Before the Holidays, Yahoo got a flurry of good press for the announcement that it would (as the LA Times puts it) "purge user data after 90 days." My eagle-eyed friend Julian Sanchez noticed that the "purge" was less complete than privacy advocates might have hoped.
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The annual Conference Computers, Privacy and Data Protection aims to create a bridge between policy-makers, academics, practitioners and activists.
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Ontario's privacy commissioner is investigating how several health reports containing confidential patient information ended up blowing down O'Connor St. last week.
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Yahoo has announced that it will no longer hold some personally identifiable search information for more than 90 days. The company is hoping that the new policy will give it a competitive advantage with users who care about privacy. It also is an encouraging development for the cause of Internet privacy. Many users do not realize that search engines hold onto the words that they type, and the ...
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The California Supreme Court could set new ground rules for the clash between privacy and security in a case from an unusual setting - Candlestick Park, where 49ers fans are subjected to pat-down searches before entering the stadium. The court hears arguments...
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WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama's two daughters were whisked quietly past waiting photographers into their new schools Monday. If custom is any guide, the news media will keep their distance now that they have captured 10-year-old Malia in her puffy pink jacket and 7-year-old Sasha with her pigtails, pink camouflage backpack and turquoise Uglydoll.
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President-elect Barack Obama's two daughters yesterday were whisked into their new schools past a line of waiting photographers.
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