PRIVACY

Dozens of police departments nationwide are gearing up to use a tech company's already controversial iris- and facial-scanning device that slides over an iPhone and helps identify a person or track criminal suspects.

Yukari Mihamae has become a mirror for frustration over stringent airport security after she allegedly groped a TSA agent.

Face.com, a face detection and recognition service that equipped Facebook with the facial recognition technology, has announced an API release of a new set of facial analysis attributes, namely, mood estimation and facial expressions.

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg had the most followers on Google+ but now he's changed his privacy settings, so nobody knows for sure how many he has.

The Google+ team will soon allow its users to hide their gender through a privacy setting to launch later this week.

Social daily coupon network Groupon is seeking more revenue lately. The company offered its first car coupon Tuesday. On Monday, the company announced it has altered its privacy policy, seeking to drive more income from user information.

Groupon was transparent about its new privacy policies, and other companies do the very same thing. But most are not as large as Groupon and most do not specifically deal with financial transaction information, which Groupon says it may now share with other business partners.

Google+ is still in field trial mode (not even beta yet), with only a limited number of users testing the product. And that's a good thing, because it's far from perfect.

Groupon has changed its privacy policy, and users face having personal information, including financial transaction data, collected and shared. The social daily coupon network has gone too far.

Social daily coupon network Groupon is changing its privacy policy. The company will collect and share more user information.

The UCLA Health System will pay $865,500 as part of a settlement agreement because its employees snooped into celebrity patients' medical records resulting in a violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, or HIPPA violation .

There haven't been any radical political or administrative changes happening in China, recently. Nor have there been any reports that said China is reconsidering its Internet censorship regulations. The country notorious for jailing bloggers and blocking Web sites, including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, is planning to buy a significant chunk of Facebook's stake, according to a BusinessInsider report.

Google launched its social networking service called the Google+ in its latest attempt to break into the social networking realm. It has had a fascinating start, and it looks good enough to beat Facebook.

Google+, Google's latest and most serious foray into the social space, has had a fascinating start and it looks good enough to beat Facebook.

When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg signed on to Google+ he posted a glum-looking photograph. Was it a mere coincidence, or a fitting reflection of the foreboding that Facebook top brass shares in light of the arrival of fearsome competition? There are plenty of reasons why Google+ will beat Facebook hands down.

How about Google+ then? Do we have enough control over our identity and online assets?

Make no mistake about it, Google+ is not a new Buzz. Thus far, any privacy concerns are unwarranted.

Google's controlled release of Google+ is called into question by one analyst.

A class action suit against Facebook was dismissed over the ‘Friend Finder’ feature in the social networking site allegin violation of the users’ rights to control the use of their names.

Facebook users spend 700 billion minutes per month accounting for a quarter of the World’s total web traffic.In spite of that, most of them have not explored beyond the communicating and sharing features.

The Transport Security Administration (TSA) has defended a recent pat-down act on a 95-year old cancer patient, Lena Reppert, who was forced to remove her diaper as part of security check.