online privacy

Has the danger for children from social networking sites, cell phones and the web grown strong enough that it's again time for the government to step in to set some rules? Senators asked those questions today at a hearing of the Senate Commerce Committee panel on Consumer Protection. A decade...

Google is moving to stem the growing privacy furor over its new Buzz social networking product, which was integrated into Gmail on Feb. 9. On Saturday, Google announced that new users would no longer automatically follow and be followed by the email contacts in their Gmail accounts.

Think you can be anonymous online? Most people simply have no idea how easy it is for law enforcement officials -- and other litigants, like someone suing you -- to gain access to personal email, Google searches, and other online information users think is "theirs." The latest ominous evidence...