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  • EFF-led group wants to give do-not-track some bite

    For years now, checking the "do-not-track" option on your browser has been little more than wishful thinking on the part of users who care about privacy online. But now a group led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation is looking to make that a more meaningful action.

    Written by Mikael Ricknäs05 Aug. 15 03:09
  • New software targets hard-to-understand privacy policies

    Have you ever tried to read a website's privacy policy only to give up after slogging through paragraphs and paragraphs of dense, lawyerly language? Privacy-focused companies Disconnect and TRUSTe have released a new browser add-on that attempts to translate those policies into easy-to-understand terms.

    Written by Grant Gross24 June 14 06:04
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