- Mon Jun 9 4:00 AM PDT 2008 How safe is instant messaging? A security and privacy survey
News.com reviews the major instant messaging services and evaluates which do the best job of protecting their users' security and privacy.
- Tue Jun 3 10:00 AM PDT 2008 Google attacked over privacy policy visibility
Privacy advocates say the company is violating California law by failing to include a link to its privacy policy on its home page, in contrast to some of its major rivals.
- Mon Jun 2 9:28 AM PDT 2008 Supreme Court rejects fantasy baseball dispute
High court declines to hear Major League Baseball's intellectual property challenge against a Missouri company that sells fantasy baseball products by Web, e-mail, and phone.
- Sat May 31 11:16 AM PDT 2008 Overstock sues New York over Net sales tax law
Company is asking the New York State Supreme Court to declare the new law unconstitutional.
- Fri May 30 7:36 AM PDT 2008 Congress may OK 'compromise' bill to derail spying lawsuits
Permitting only a secret court to handle legal challenges against government wiretap requests to phone companies, bill offers what civil libertarians argue is "sham."
- Wed May 28 9:01 AM PDT 2008 U.S. complains about European electronics taxes
Bush administration claims European customs officials are taxing imports of certain monitors, set-top boxes, and printers in violation of a 1996 trade agreement.
- Wed May 28 4:00 AM PDT 2008 'Internet freedom' bill targeting China cooperation faces rough road
Proposal waiting for a floor vote in the House saying U.S. firms may not place certain servers in repressive nations faces opposition from the Bush administration and others.
- Tue May 27 4:49 PM PDT 2008 Report: Belgian publishers demand up to $77 million from Google
Search giant says it intends to fight new claims that it owes newspaper publishers a hefty damage award related to copyright lawsuit still being appealed.
- Fri May 23 12:20 PM PDT 2008 Senators: No need for paper e-voting trails, 'electronic' ones are OK
Computer scientists have advocated paper trails as a check on malice or programming errors, but a Senate bill instead will provide the option of a second "electronic" record as well.
- Fri May 23 11:37 AM PDT 2008 Housing bailout bill creates national fingerprint registry
A Senate bill to spend billions of dollars on bailing out homeowners who say they can't make payments also includes a fingerprinting requirement with few privacy and security safeguards.


