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Lawmakers, regulators boost rhetoric around privacy

Will Washington finally enact some data privacy laws in the coming year, or won't it? Right now, it's looking like a 50-50 bet. The massive data breaches at Sony and Epsilon this spring, combined

Privacy bill angers consumer groups, advertisers

A new effort to strengthen privacy protections for online and offline data is underway in Congress. Reps. Rick Boucher, D-Va., and Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., are floating a draft bill that would impose a

Facebook sued over privacy changes

A lawsuit has been filed against Facebook, charging that it modified its privacy settings, reducing rather than increasing, privacy protections. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in the

Tech gadgets can violate privacy

Tech gadgets are great, but little attention has been paid to privacy when it comes to issues like location-based systems such as GPS and electronic tags that help cars zip through toll booths. In