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Senator Ron Wyden details tech policy topics that need attention in 2013

Mark Zuckerberg faces $26K fine over anonymity in Germany

Polish prof discovers way to encrypt secret messages into silence on Skype (even if the FBI is listening)

Instagram may have lost 25% of daily users after terms of service debacle

Congress yanks warrantless e-mail tapping protections just before Christmas

Instagram tweets with promise to share more on its privacy changes ‘very soon’

Instagram will share user data with Facebook starting next month

Stalkers, prepare to be thwarted: Senate passes location privacy bill

How to see anyone’s personal year in review on Facebook

Facebook makes site-wide changes to put privacy controls in context

Internet Explorer can track your mouse anywhere on the screen (and Microsoft won’t fix it)

DoNotTrackMe gets big update to protect you from those wicked web trackers

The Facebook democracy is officially dead

“Anonymous” tracking now includes knowing your name, email address and everything about you — just not your full browsing history

Privacy groups to Facebook: Let us vote

You’ll never guess which country asks Google for information about users the most

Facebook’s taking away the vote from its users

Facebook testing automatic photo upload feature on iOS

Bulgarian blogger buys data for 1.1 million Facebook users for $5

Your Facebook messages help companies pump up their likes

FreshTag video chats start with a hashtag but they don’t end with privacy

Video chat service ChatRandom is destroying Fanning & Parker’s Airtime with two killer features

TrustGo checks 1.7M apps on 175 markets, finds 25,580 malicious apps (infographic)

Personal.com’s secure ‘vault’ can store your most sensitive data in the cloud

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How Microsoft’s Terms of Service changes impact your rights

New Facebook ad tech will let advertisers match your Facebook with their customer database

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Dear Republicans, beware: Big Brother is watching you

Microsoft: We don’t harvest Windows 8 SmartScreen user data

Dropbox competitor SpiderOak bolsters privacy in the cloud

Germany to Facebook: Facial-recognition feature is breaking the law

FTC says Facebook lied about app-security program

Facebook officially settles FTC privacy suit today

Can I have yo number? Burner protects privacy with one-off phone numbers

Facebook’s facial recognition gets probe from Norwegian officials

Caution, lurkers. Quora Views shows who is reading posts

Diss NBC, get suspended on Twitter?

Scary thought: governments will secretly track our locations via smartphones

Whoops: Google reveals it didn’t delete all of its Street View Wi-Fi data
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