Privacy

Online Privacy Controls Come Into Effect

26 May 2012

A new law comes into force this weekend requiring all websites to ask permission from users before using 'cookies' - data files that remember computer logins, email addresses and previous internet activity.The ...

'Facebook parenting' & privacy

25 May 2012

Today's 30-somethings are the first generation whose children are coming of age alongside the social web.

Opinion: Privacy is far from dead

25 May 2012

Whatever the outcome of Facebook's public offering of stock, the social network has already enriched quite a few ? as well as famously offered many hundreds of millions of people a new virtual social world. Yet critics claim that Facebook is hastening the demise of privacy, which as the cliché goes, is already on life support.