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Google Inc. has acknowledged that it trespassed when it took a photo of a Pittsburgh-area house for its Street View service, but will pay only $1 in damages to a couple who sued....

U.S. homeland security officials have no plans to back away from air passenger security patdowns despite a traveler uproar that they violate privacy rights and growing concerns in Congress over the policy.

The Obama administration is expected to announce Internet privacy regulations as well as a new position to oversee what would be a more aggressive government involvement with the Internet, according to a published report.

Google admitted in a blog post Friday that external regulators have discovered that e-mails, URLs and passwords were collected and stored in a technical while the vehicles for Google's Street View service were out documenting roadway locations.

MySpace and some popular applications have been transmitting information to outside advertising companies that could be used to identify users, a Journal investigation found.

A pilot who refused to submit to a full-body scan or the alternative pat down going through airport security said the procedures violate his rights.

A Facebook engineer said that some applications were passing along personal data in a violation of policy.

Shaquille O'Neal is fighting allegations from a former worker who says the NBA star stole his personal information and attempted to frame him for using child porn.

Google confirmed on Tuesday that it fired an employee earlier this year for violating its policies on accessing the accounts of its users.

The Obama administration is seeking to make it easier for the FBI to compel companies to turn over records of an individual's Internet activity without a court order if agents deem the information relevant to a terrorism or intelligence investigation.