A new Russian ATM will make customers pay for lying: A voice-measured polygraph to be installed in the electronic tellers of Russia's state-run Sberbank can tell if patrons are talking truth or hogwash in applying for a credit card or loan -- an anti-fraud weapon with roots in the old Soviet Union.
Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox are developing tools that will allow Web users to block advertisers from collecting information about them.
Google's troubles over its inadvertent collection of personal data while mapping its "Street View" overseas seems never-ending. The latest country to accuse the company of privacy violations is South Korea.
A year ago, few expected Angry Birds or Groupon to be among 2010's stars, but the underlying trends that powered their success were plain enough. So picking individual companies to rise or fall this year isn't worthwhile. What is? Identifying the trends that will move them all.
Facebook continues to grow like mad, despite the recent privacy controversy. People should get used to privacy being a key issue for Facebook "indefinitely," says David Kirkpatrick, author of The Facebook Effect.
