Online Privacy

Barack Obama wants you (to spill your secrets) Barack Obama wants you (to spill your secrets)

Prospective White House employees must cough up an unprecedented amount of detail about their online activity. Is the new administration being smart -- or scary?
  • I could have had celebrity sex -- but I stuck to my principles

    I fell hard for a high-level business leader -- until she abruptly turned off the charm.
  • Mano a mano with John McCain

    At a committee hearing on online privacy, the senator asks me some tough questions and doesn't like what he hears.
  • Privacy pleas

    Amitai Etzioni's "The Limits of Privacy" sees civil libertarians as a danger and government as the solution to all our problems.
  • Let's Get This Straight: The Web's identity crisis

    Intel's processor-I.D. gaffe shows how badly tech companies want to know who you are and where you live.
  • Hands off that data -- I'm European!

    In the transatlantic trade war that's brewing over data privacy rules, the U.S. pushes laissez-faire while the European Union embraces tough laws.
  • Let's Get This Straight: Private matters

    The FTC urges new protection for personal information online. Can the Web industry do what's right?
  • 21st: AOL's insecurity complex

    AOL's insecurity complex: By David Cassel. The online service can't even keep its own staff bulletin boards private.

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