Privacy

Google and the Google-owned YouTube received more than 10,000 requests for user data from government agencies in the six months ending Dec. 31, 2009, according to newly released data.

A new ISACA survey shows many IT managers remain wary of cloud computing despite all the buzz. How cloud providers can help allay concerns

Can employers read an employee's personal e-mail composed and sent via a corporate computer, and does the employer own that e-mail? What about e-mails to a lawyer, which raises special questions of client-attorney privilege that invoke confidentiality?

Jones Harbour of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission complained the online vendors who claim to respect privacy launch products where the guiding privacy policy is

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has obtained documents showing how U.S. law enforcement agencies and the Internal Revenue Service are gathering information from social networking sites for their investigations.

CA is expected to announce additions to its enterprise identity management product that will allow customers to extend access and provisioning controls to the Salesforce.com Sales Cloud 2 app

Google faces a class-action lawsuit and criticism from Canada

A class action lawsuit has been filed against Facebook over changes that the social networking site made to its privacy settings last November and December. Recent modifications result in more information being shared by default, complaint alleges.