Neowin News Feed for: Policy

Amazon closes security hole, quietly

Andrew Stevenson — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 10:29:14 +0100

Just last week Mat Honan, a journalist for Wired, had his digital life destroyed by hackers taking control of his Amazon and Apple accounts. Now Amazon has closed the hole that led to the attack. Read more...

Teacher aide fired for not providing Facebook password

Stefano Elia — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:31:06 +0100

A teacher's aide was fired due to content on her Facebook and refusing to give her Facebook password to her employer, now she's embroiled in a legal battle with the school district. Read more...

School tells students to delete Facebook profiles

Paul Ferson — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:19:28 +0100

Students at a high school in Brooklyn, New York, have been told to delete their Facebook accounts due to a breach of the school's policy. Read more...

European group asks Google to pause new privacy policies

John Callaham — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:29:54 +0000

A group of regulators in Europe has requested Google put the enforcement of its new privacy policies on hold until it investigates whether the policies truly protect the personal info for users. Read more...

Google's new privacy policy may make them evil

Owen Williams — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:02:23 +0000

The Mountain View based search giant is moving to unify its service policy soon, which is great news for simplification of the services they offer. However, it may not be as good as it sounds. Read more...

Windows 8 app store approval policy outlined

Brad Sams — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:22:34 +0100

If you are looking to create applications for Microsoft's Windows 8 application store, Microsoft has provided a bit of light on how the approval process will work. Read more...

Apple changes course, will allow third party development tools

Brad Sams — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:18:57 +0100

Apple has officially announced today that it is back tracking on its previous statement of not allowing third party tools. Apple has specifically stated that they are relaxing their rules to allow for third party... Read more...

Google tweaks their privacy policies

Brenton Currie — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 16:10:33 +0100

Google has announced a number of changes to their privacy policy, making them more simplified and removing some of the complicated "lawyer" terminology. In a post on the official Google blog, Mike Yang, Google's Associate General... Read more...

Carbonite updates Neowin about their Disclosure Policy

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:03:32 +0000

Neowin reported earlier today that, an annoyed Carbonite customer who wanted to write reviews in Amazon.com regarding his experiences with Carbonite, found out that the high level employees of carbonite gave positive product reviews disguised... Read more...

EFF questions White House website's privacy policy

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:37:01 +0000

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a U.S nonprofit legal organization, has sent a letter to White House Counsel demanding the reason for exempting third party cookies from WhiteHouse.gov's privacy policy. The White House website's privacy... Read more...

eBay enacts PayPal only policy in the US

Tom Warren — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:53:10 +0100

Just when you think eBay is done infuriating longtime users across the world, the auction site keeps cranking out the hits. You almost have to admire the steadfast dedication – that ability to bear 'mid... Read more...

Brazil hosts web policy forum

Tom Warren — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:16:21 +0000

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More than 2,000 people who oversee the workings of the net around the world are gathering in Brazil. Policy makers, activists and officials are gathering in Rio de Janeiro for the second Internet Governance... Read more...

Give the Group Policy team your feedback

Steven Parker — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:40:01 +0100

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Heres your chance to make a difference in the way Group Policies are setup in future versions of Windows, the Group Policy team has setup a survey that targets IT admins specifically that use Group... Read more...

Google privacy policy 'is vague'

Tom Warren — Thu, 31 May 2007 12:14:48 +0100

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Elements of Google's privacy policy are "vague" and need to be made more precise, the firm's global privacy counsel has told BBC News. Peter Fleischer said the company "could do better" with policy statements... Read more...

European officials question Google's privacy policy

Slimy — Fri, 25 May 2007 23:24:07 +0100

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A European Commission advisory group, composed of representatives from all of the European Union countries, sent Google a letter expressing concern over Google's new privacy policy announced in March. The issue surrounds Google's policy of... Read more...

eBay 'sorry' over policy change

Slimy — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:26:38 +0100

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Auction website eBay has apologised for not giving sellers enough notice about changing the default settings for the 'simple search' on ebay.com. Until recently, items put up for sale by eBay customers on the UK... Read more...

Microsoft considers China policy

Tom Warren — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 09:28:02 +0000

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A senior executive for Microsoft has said the firm could pull out of non-democratic countries such as China. Fred Tipson, senior policy counsel for the computer giant, said concerns over the repressive regime... Read more...

China Reaffirms Position on Internet Policy

Shane Pitman — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 19:28:47 +0000

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China has reaffirmed its position onpolicing its citizens' usage of the internet following Wednesdays Congressionalquestioning of technology giants Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Yahoo Inc.,and Google Inc. The House of Representatives International Relations subcommitteebecame interested... Read more...

Policy Deals Blow to Microsoft

malebolgia — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 20:50:00 +0100

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The state of Massachusetts will require that by 2007 all documents produced by the state's executive branch must be stored in a new universal format. The policy change, which will require modifications to software running... Read more...

Group Policy Settings Reference for XP SP2

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 03 Sep 2004 13:21:17 +0100

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This spreadsheet lists the full set of Group Policy settings described in Administrative Template (.adm) files that shipped with Windows XP SP2. This includes all policy settings supported on the following operating systems: Microsoft Windows... Read more...