Public pressure is more harmful for Facebook than the fines, a German privacy regulator said.

SpongeBob Diner Dash collects personal information from children in violation of U.S. law, the complaint says.

The Internet, long viewed as a tool to expand freedom, is an equally effective tool for repression. That is just as true in the United States as anywhere else.

Autofill and password caching valued as much as privacy.

A consumer rights group had argued the fine was inadequate.

The fine is the largest ever related to an FTC complaint.

One opponent has expressed worries that the bill would create a 'Wild West of information sharing'.

Ha betartanánk a szabályokat, a közösségi hálózat kongana az ürességtől. Ennek okára derít fényt cikkünk.

Google's new privacy policy is already under scrutiny in the U.S. and Europe.

A researcher said Facebook and many others also use a loophole to get around browser privacy policies.

Google quietly launches a program to pay volunteers up to $25 to share their browser activity with the company.

The upcoming changes are long overdue, they say.

As Google+ grows in popularity--now with more than 20 million users--the new social network is triggering a number of questions with legal implications from businesses about potential policy changes, data retention issues and more, according to Joshua Kubicki, senior director of legal and corporate practices at Applied Discovery, an e-discovery provider that works with corporations preparing for and responding to legal actions.

Google could suffer from showing rivals its cards too early, but avoiding a privacy blunder is worth the competitive risk.

Representatives from both Apple and Google will testify at a Congressional hearing next month on consumer privacy and smartphones , two U.S. senators confirmed on Thursday.

Apple has been hit with another lawsuit accusing it of privacy violations for the way it shares information collected from iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users with advertisers.

Apple has been hit by a lawsuit that alleges the company and its partners are surreptitiously collecting personal information from the users of iPhones and iPads.

Facebook is in breach of South Korean data privacy laws and needs to do a better job of getting consent from users when getting their personal information, a South Korean regulator said Wednesday.

U.S. Web users should be able to sign up for a do-not-track feature in browsers that would prohibit websites and advertising networks from following their movements online, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday.

Google on Tuesday said it won preliminary approval to settle a class-action lawsuit related to alleged privacy violations caused by its Buzz service.