Planned changes to Google Inc’s privacy policies that have caught the attention of U.S. lawmakers would not take away the control its customers have over how data is collected and used, the company said in a blog post on Tuesday.

Google announced that it will begin tracking users universally across all its services—Gmail, Search, YouTube and more—and sharing data on user activity across all of them.

According to a government document, the DHS has been monitoring social media as well as select blogs and message boards for more than a year.

A tech expert Leo Laporte aired a spicy conversation between him and his boss Lisa Kentzell, which was seen by millions of viewers.

There are plenty of fake Twitter accounts that are intended to be amusing spoofs of celebrities – but it’s easy to set up accounts that could be used more maliciously. The lack of initial verification on Twitter means that anyone can set up an account pretending to be someone.

Though Google Toolbar 7 for Firefox launched several months ago, the Internet Explorer version (download) went live just this week. It brings Google Instant to the popular toolbar, along with more robust privacy options and a cleaner interface.

Mr Lee stood down hours after news and gossip website Gawker.com posted e-mail correspondence it said had been sent between the congressman and a 34-year-old single woman he met on the classifieds site Craigslist.

Apple Inc has joined a growing number of U.S. companies that have severed ties with WikiLeaks, removing an application from its online store that gave users access to the controversial website’s content.

How often should you change your password? I get asked that question a lot, usually by people annoyed at their employer’s or bank’s password expiration policy: people who finally memorized their current password and are realizing they’ll have to write down their new password.

In what is seen as a ground-breaking case involving workers and social media, the US National Labor Relations Board has accused a company of illegally firing a worker after she criticized her supervisor on her Facebook page.