privacy

An advertiser that monitored online activities of consumers even after they'd opted out of its tracking system agreed to stop after settling allegations by the Federal Trade Commission that accused it of deceptive practices. Chitika Inc., which acts as a middleman between websites and advertisers,...

Three credit report resellers whose lax security procedures allowed hackers to steal the credit reports of nearly 2,000 consumers have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they failed to take reasonable steps to protect consumers' personal information against identity theft. In...

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.

A maker of child-monitoring software has agreed to stop selling information it gathers about the online behavior of kids. EchoMetrix Inc. of New York agreed to settle with the Federal Trade Commission, which said the company failed to clearly disclose to parents using its web monitoring software...

Federal Communications Commission regulators are investigating Google's Street View cars and their capture of users' personal information, from complete email addresses to passwords, an FCC official said Wednesday.

Google has been slapped with another privacy lawsuit, this time over its toolbar, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. A New York man alleges the toolbar software transmits users' Internet activity to the company, and misleads people into believing they can prevent that transmission.

Google plans to pay out an $8.5 million settlement as part of a privacy class action lawsuit against its Gmail Buzz feature, the Internet giant said Tuesday.

A Federal Trade Commission probe into Google's practices related to data collection from its Street View cars has been dropped after the world's largest search-engine operator made changes to safeguard consumer privacy.