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[ReadWriteWeb] This is a great lack of user privacy considering that some big names are on Twitter now and anyone other website could implement a simple profile retriever and associate those important people to their website (I will let your readers imagine the types of website that could be associated to different celebrities, personalities, etc).

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[TechNews AM] Google Warns of Privacy Issues on the Social Web... (ReadWriteWeb ...: In a recent paper about social privacy Google researchers caution that the expansion of the social Web and our growing involvement with it is compromising our privacy while offering the false sense of security that we act in the privacy of our own social circle.

[Privacy Lives] Privacy Lives » Blog Archive » Telegraph UK: CCTV cameras used to ...: Mrs Fletcher was horrified that the meal had been recorded on CCTV cameras, and said her family found it “extremely disturbing” and felt “outrage at the invasion of our privacy”.

[JustGetThere] Google Researchers Warn of Undermined Privacy in Social Networks ...: Google Researchers Warn of Undermined Privacy in Social Networks. Could your social networks spill your secrets? By Tom Simonite Short Sharp Science | In an article at the end of last year we looked at some of the ways data-mining ...

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[FWM Websites for Attorneys Blog] Food For Thought on Web Privacy | Foster Web Marketing: A recent article over at CNN brings up an interesting fact: Search engines like Google and Yahoo gather and hold onto your search history, and then tailor the sorts of advertisements and content that you end up with based on what your prior searches have been. 

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[DarkReading Weblog] Browser Privacy Features Leave Users Exposed - Evil Bytes Blog ...: In about 85 percent of those cases, users were smart enough to clear their Web browsing history or use a private browsing mode that prevented a casual investigation from finding evidence of time-wasting activities that full, disk-based forensic investigations would have uncovered. Saving some time, a quick forensic preview of the workstations could have yielded faster results by analyzing the Flash cookies left behind from many sites, including MySpace and Hulu.com, that would have yielded evidence of visiting nonwork-related sites (depending on your business).

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