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Bloomberg accused of "snooping" on customers for journalistic gain

A brouhaha is brewing after claims late last week that financial media giant Bloomberg had been using its proprietary data terminals to snoop on its customers.

Intriguingly, the Bloomberg fuss is as much about what you *didn't* say or search for as what you did...

Man who spied on cheating wife's email has charges against him dropped (because she was snooping back)

Husband who spied on cheating wife's email has charges against him dropped

Would you ever snoop on your spouse's email?

When Leon Walker began to read his wife's email, he confirmed she was having an affair. But that was only the start of the trouble he found himself in..

Facebook/Twitter hacks by "friends" on the rise for teens and young adults

Facebook/Twitter hacks by "friends" on the rise for teens and young adults

A new survey of American teenagers and young adults has discovered that three out of every 10 have had their Facebook, Twitter or MySpace accounts broken into for the purposes of snooping or impersonation.

And most know who was responsible.

Google relents, offers "WiFi sniffing" opt-out

Google relents, offers "WiFi sniffing" opt-out

An article on Google's grandly-named European Public Policy Blog has just announced A new option for location-based services.

Opt-out from Google's gargantuan WiFi database, in simpler words.

Public unprivacy – is it all Google's fault?

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Google is back under the pump in Australia over its recent WiFi muck-up. The search juggernaut's Street View cars apparently recorded – by accident – some 600GB of unencrypted WiFi data whilst tracking and storing access point names and MAC Read more…