Nearly two million people recently found their privacy invaded in ways they probably didn't image would happen. Trust isn't all its cracked up to be. Various people have reported and discussed the fact that a huge number of people's personal...

Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 301689 contains the following summary: Custom privacy preferences can be imported into Internet Explorer by clicking Import on the Privacy tab of Internet Options and opening an Internet Explorer Priva...

Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 282846 contains the following Description: Privacy preferences that you specify on the Privacy tab in Internet options using the slider, the Advanced Privacy Settings dialog box (by clicking the Advanced but...

Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 290333 contains the following summary: This article describes the Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) project. P3P is a combined protocol and architecture designed to inform Web users of ...

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Trading security for privacy

Nearly everyone I know (myself included) believes that privacy on the Internet is important. I've noticed, however, that until recently, I unconsciously classified "anonymity" as a kind of privacy and so considered it an automatic right of...

If you configured Web sites using the Privacy tab of Internet Options, you may wish to prevent users from...

The current economic recession has hit some high-tech firms hard. Some companies in particular seem to have taken hard blows ... to their ethical standards...

The noose around Microsoft Passport tightened a bit more this week when a privacy advocacy group asked the attorneys general of all 50 U.S. states to investigate whether the service exposes consumers to fraud, junk email and "identity theft." In a...