Announcements have been made today by facebook that they plan to make major changes to how users can control their privacy. One of the many changes is that each time you post an item you will have control of who can view this post. This is one of the many changes facebook have made recently Read News…

The US has defended its request for the personal details of three Twitter users, as part of its inquiry into Wikileaks. At a court in Virginia, the justice department said it was seeking the account information of three associates of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The trio are fighting against the request, arguing that it is Read News…

A Press complaints Commission has ruled that all material published on Twitter should be classed as public. A complaint was recently made by a Department of Transport that her private tweets had been published in both the Daily Mail and Independent on Sunday. The messages embarrassingly contained references about being hung-over in work. It was Read News…

German researchers have created new groundbreaking software called X-Pire that gives electronic images an expiration date by tagging them with an encrypted key. Once this date has passed the key stops the images being viewed and copied. Creators plan to add a small charge to use this tagging system and be able to put a Read News…

Electronics giant Apple are the subject of a lawsuit being taken against them in the wake of data leaks from the iPad and iPhone. Two individual groups are pursuing claims against Apple who claim that applications better known as ‘apps’ for the iPad and iPhone leak personally identifiable data. More importantly though, the claims made Read News…

Canada has branded Google as being in “serious violation” of its privacy laws after accidentally collecting personal data from Canadian Wi-Fi networks as part of its Street View image collecting project. Google has now been told to tighten up its privacy rules by February or face penalties. This follows an investigation headed up by the Read News…

A ruling from the information commissioner has cleared Google over the controversial alleged capture of data from unprotected private wireless, or Wi-Fi, networks. The allegations surfaced following the release of Google StreetView, which allows browsers to not only view maps of the UK, but also zoom down to ‘StreetView’ and view photograph images of roads Read News…

Search Engines have now started to base your search results on your internet History – Are they going to far and invading our privacy? This development by the Search engines has come to light recently and the reason for this is to get a better understanding of how users navigate around the Internet. The likes Read News…