invasion of privacy

Sky News is trying to justify hacking the email of the two main figures in an insurance-fraud story, because it was so vital to the public interest that Sky reveal details of a plot in which a man faked his own death, after he'd already pled guilty to seven counts of fraud.

Two lawsuits take Google to task over the March 1 policy change that pulls data from almost all Google's services into a single data pool. Customers claim the change violated a different expectation of privacy in each service with no chance to opt out without dropping the service.

British actor Jude Law was the highest-profile of the stars who settled 35 of 60 phone hacking suits with News Corp. this week. Oft-hacked publicist Max Clifford got £1M, compared to £130,000 for law. Family of murdered teen got £2 million.

'Buffy' might not be the best name for a phone from a company famous for sucking private data from customers more aggressively than The Slayer would have put up with even from her vampire boyfriend.

It doesn't take a cop or a private eye: you're being followed everywhere you go. Your phone company knows of your travels, and your browser vendor knows of the sites you visit. They would lift the curtain and peer inside your bedroom window if they could. The dignity and privacy robbing ways of the sponsors of what you do need to shift their models. Here's how to do put pressure on them.