Lives of Others; Privacy and the Internet  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 395 no. 8683 (May 2010), page 63-64.
Topik: Web Sites; Social Networks; Privacy; Information Control; Network Security; International

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Jennifer Stoddart, Canada's privacy commissioner, is furious with Facebook. In August 2009 the social-networking site struck a deal, agreeing to change its policies within a year to comply with the country's privacy law. Now, says Stoddart, the company appears to be reneging on an important part of that deal, which involved giving users a clear and easy-to-implement choice over whether to share private data with third parties. Facebook is not the only internet giant to provoke the ire of data watchdogs. Google endured withering criticism this week following news that it had recorded some personal communications sent over unsecured Wi-Fi data networks in homes and offices in some 30 countries. The cases highlight rising tension between guardians of privacy and internet firms. And they reflect concern among web users about how private data are made public. This is unlikely to stop the meteoric rise of Facebook, which is poised to claim half a billion members and which draws even more visitors as a whole to its site. But nerves have been rattled at the company's headquarters in Silicon Valley, where bosses are mulling over how to respond. Several senior folk are now hinting that Facebook will soon roll out simpler privacy controls to make it easier to keep more data hidden.

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