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Hacktivists claim takedown of Chicago police Web site

CNET News.com — Sun, 20 May 2012 18:08:54 +0000

Anonymous group AntiS3curityOPS says action is in retaliation for alleged police brutality committed during protests against NATO summit.

FBI ‘looking at’ law making Web sites wiretap-ready, director says

CNET News.com — Fri, 18 May 2012 20:17:00 +0000

Director Robert Mueller says FBI needs to be able to “capture communications” of people under surveillance, but declines to elaborate on renewed lobbying effort reported by CNET two weeks ago.

Facebook sued for $15 billion over alleged privacy infractions

CNET News.com — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:00:05 +0000

A class-action lawsuit filed by Stewarts Law US combines 21 cases across the U.S.

Caught snooping: U.K. government staffers

CNET News.com — Fri, 18 May 2012 12:34:54 +0000

What a surprise: the U.K. government was forced to reveal under Freedom of Information laws that more than 1,000 civil servants have “snooped” on British citizens’ private data.

Socialcam closes hole that enabled accidental sharing

CNET News.com — Fri, 18 May 2012 01:06:19 +0000

The popular video-sharing app responds to complaint from privacy advocate.

Pirate Bay, WikiLeaks fight off crippling attacks

CNET News.com — Thu, 17 May 2012 22:22:10 +0000

Tables turn as hacker favorites are targeted in DDoS attacks.

U.S. cybersecurity chief Howard Schmidt retiring

CNET News.com — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:38:44 +0000

The two-time adviser to the U.S. government on cybersecurity is stepping down to spend more time with family, look into teaching, and ride his motorcycle on a trip out West.

Twitter announces support for Do Not Track

CNET News.com — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:41:09 +0000

The social network stops the tracking when users are on Firefox or other browsers that support the Do Not Track feature. Of course, that feature also has to be turned on.

Friday debut of SF bar-cams stirs sour reception

CNET News.com — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:29:24 +0000

With a new service called SceneTap set to put video cameras in bars, privacy advocates warn that a red line’s about to get crossed.

Euclid downplays privacy concerns about Wi-Fi tracking

CNET News.com — Thu, 17 May 2012 00:36:39 +0000

Startup called Euclid Elements shows up at privacy conference to say there are no problems with recording locations of millions of smartphones (unless their owners go to the company’s Web site and opt out).