PrivacyUS Agency Challenges Corporate Facebook SackingIn 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.  Broadband usage growing even as gaps persistThe U.S. still faces a significant gap in residential broadband use that breaks down along incomes, education levels and other socio-economic factors, even as subscriptions among American households overall grew sevenfold from 2001 to 2009. Germany’s new e-ID cards raise hackles over privacyGermany has introduced electronic identity cards that store personal data on microchips, raising fears over data protection in a country especially wary of surveillance due to its Nazi and Stasi past. Google sues U.S. government over hosted e-mail bid against MicrosoftGoogle is suing the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) over a bid for a new hosted e-mail system which Google claims unfairly benefits Microsoft. Are texting and Facebook worse for teens than TV?Is Facebook really worse for teenagers’ brains than the mindless reruns of “Gilligan’s Island” and “The Brady Bunch” that their parents consumed growing up? FTC ends Google ‘Spy-Fi’ breach probeThe Federal Trade Commission (FTC) told Google Wednesday it will end its probe into a major privacy breach in which the company collected and stored private user information, such as passwords and entire e-mails, without even realizing it. Most Americans support an Internet kill switchSixty-one percent of Americans said the President should have the ability to shut down portions of the Internet in the event of a coordinated malicious cyber attack, according to research by Unisys. US regulators scold Google for taking e-mailsThe Federal Trade Commission is scolding Google Inc. without punishing the Internet search leader for collecting e-mails, passwords and other personal information transmitted over unsecured wireless networks. Firefox extension makes social network ID spoofing trivialA simple-to-use Firefox plugin presented yesterday at Toorcon in San Diego has hit the security world with the realization that squabbles about Facebook’s changing privacy settings and various privacy breaches simply miss the point. Google tightening privacy leash on its employeesGoogle Inc. is tightening its privacy leash on employees in an effort to ensure they don’t intrude on people while the Internet search leader collects and stores information about its users.
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