Internet privacy bill would set rules of road for Web sites, online advertisersHere is a look at some of the things that Rep. Rick Boucher, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet, hopes to put in a bill governing Internet advertising. Los Angeles’s plan to tap Google Webd services sets off security debate over confidential dataLOS ANGELES — Security and privacy concerns have been raised over a multimillion-dollar proposal by Los Angeles to tap Google Inc.’s Internet-based services for government e-mail, police records and other confidential data. As government tags passports, licenses, critics fear privacy is ‘chipped’ awayClimbing into his Volvo, outfitted with a Matrics antenna and a Motorola reader he’d bought on eBay for $190, Chris Paget cruised the streets of San Francisco with this objective: To read the identity cards of strangers, wirelessly, without ever leaving his car. Google’s Street View halted by privacy watchdog in GreeceATHENS, Greece — A privacy watchdog has banned the Internet giant Google Inc. from gathering images in Greece for its Street View service until it provides additional privacy guarantees. |