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U.S. Congressman Joe Barton Quizzes Google on Privacy

Rep. Joe Barton has questions for Google, as Declan McCullagh reports. A top Republican in the House of Representatives is demanding that Google answer a barrage of questions about privacy, some of which are related to the company’s proposed purchase of the DoubleClick advertising firm. Rep. Joe Barton, who has positioned himself as a privacy [...]

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Ask.com Releases AskEraser, A New Privacy Switch

The search engine Ask.com is making a proactive move. Ask.com will unveil on Tuesday a “privacy switch” that lets users completely erase their search queries and related data from the search engine’s servers. The new feature, dubbed AskEraser, is believed to mark the first time that Internet users have been given control over whether their [...]

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