WASHINGTON — Google has agreed to adopt a comprehensive privacy program to settle federal charges that it deceived users and violated its own privacy policy when it launched a social networking service called Buzz last year. Google triggered a fierce ...

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NEW YORK — Facebook users who check in to a store or click the “like” button for a brand may soon find those actions retransmitted on their friends’ pages as a “Sponsored Story” paid for by advertisers. Currently there is ...

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As a special surprise for the New Year, I learned that one of my e-mail accounts had an issue that kept me from seeing 5,582 new messages over the course of the past year. I told my husband about it, ...

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Four former members of the disbanded Southwestern District Flex Squad have lost their $40 million federal lawsuit alleging that police department leaders violated their constitutional and civil rights by suspending them from active duty. The officers also alleged that internal ...

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One of the most important issues facing corporations and in-house counsel today is the rising cost of compliance. The cost of compliance refers to the cost of ensuring the company complies with the ever increasing number of regulatory rules and ...

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WASHINGTON — With one of the year’s busiest traveling days fast approaching, the Obama administration’s top transportation security official on Monday urged passengers angry over safety procedures not to boycott airport body scans. John Pistole said in nationally broadcast interviews ...

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ROME — Italian prosecutors said Wednesday they have opened an investigation into Google’s Street View mapping feature for suspected violation of privacy. Google said it would cooperate with authorities and apologized for any inadvertent collection of private data from unencrypted ...

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Google Inc. is tightening its privacy leash on employees in an effort to ensure they don’t intrude on people while the Internet search leader collects and stores information about its users. Besides promoting longtime employee Alma Whitten to be its ...

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LOS ANGELES — Billionaire real estate mogul Donald Bren testified Thursday in the child support case brought by his two adult children, saying he was shocked when his then-lover told him decades ago that she was pregnant with their first ...

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