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Google Glass

Enterprise

Are You a Google Glass Half Full or Half Empty Kind of Person ?

The Chinese name their years after animals – the year of the goat, the rat and so on.

Michelle Obama

US

FBI Investigating Hackers Who Posted Michelle Obama's Financial Details

The FBI and Los Angeles police are investigating suspected Russian hackers who allegedly stole and posted online sensitive financial information about Michelle Obama, Joe Biden, senior law enforcers and about a dozen Hollywood celebrities.

Shhh

Facebook Users Unwittingly Revealing Intimate Secrets, Study Finds

Facebook users are unwittingly revealing intimate secrets – including their sexual orientation, drug use and political beliefs – using only public "like" updates, according to a study of online privacy.

Google Office Building

Enterprise

Google To Be Summoned Over Data Grab 'Excesses'

Google representatives are to be summoned to appear before European data protection officials over concerns about the way it collects data on web users.

Shhh

How Instagram's Blunder Could Shake Up Business Models

In the wake of the Instagram backlash, growing privacy concerns may spur social media companies to rethink advertising as their main source of revenue, said Rich Greenfield, an analyst at BTIG.

Facebook In Browser

Facebook to Improve Privacy Controls Over Public Visibility

Facebook is to make sweeping changes to its privacy controls, making them easier to find and offering people the means to review every publicly available picture of them on the site.

Nick Clegg Arm Raised

GlobalUK

Snooper's bill is unworkable, Nick Clegg tells Theresa May

A coalition clash over the home secretary's "snooper's charter" legislation has opened up at the highest level, with Nick Clegg bluntly telling Theresa May: "We cannot proceed with this bill and we have to go back to the drawing board."

Secret Side Of Facebook Still

Video

Privacy And The Scary, Secret Side Of Facebook

Facebook keeps large amounts of personal data on each user of the social network. Here is an explanation of what the brand actually keeps.

Gavel

Europe

Greek editor Kostas Vaxevanis acquitted over Swiss bank list

Kostas Vaxevanis hates being the centre of attention. On Thursday moments before taking the stand in one of the most sensational trials to grip Greece in modern times, the journalist said he was not in the business of making news. "My job is simply to tell the news and tell it straight," he averred. "My job is to tell the truth."

The Devil

A new internet age ? Web users turn on 'trolls'

When mourners arrived at the peace park in Maple Ridge, Vancouver, to pay tribute to Amanda Todd this week, few could have realised quite how widely the effects of the 15-year-old's death were being felt.

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