This is the Privacy Policy for all Web sites owned or operated by Freedom Communications, Inc. ("Freedom" "we" or "our"), including, without limitation the Web sites listed here (collectively, the "Site"). We respect your privacy and appreciate the confidence you have placed in the Site. We are committed to protecting your privacy and preserving your trust. Please carefully review this Privacy Policy to learn about how we collect, use, and protect any personal information you provide us and your choices for managing your personal information. This Privacy Policy is subject to the User Agreement posted on the Site.

Serial killer Maury Travis used an online mapping service to show a newspaper reporter where he dumped a body.

WASHINGTON - American consumers fundamentally misunderstand how Internet companies use their personal information, according to a new survey that concludes tougher federal privacy laws are needed.

SAN FRANCISCO - Google’s memory is getting a little shorter. Just not short enough for some. The company adjusted its policies Wednesday to answer complaints that it never forgets what users have looked for.

NEW YORK - Privacy concerns stemming from online shopping rose in 2007, a new study finds, as the loss or theft of credit card information and other personal data soared to unprecedented levels.

NEW YORK - Google is at once a powerful search engine and a growing e-mail provider. It runs a blogging service, makes software to speed Web traffic and has ambitions to become a digital library. And it is developing a payments service.

Between Facebook and MySpace and personalized Web sites and an onslaught of confessional TV talk shows, you have to wonder if the concept of personal privacy is an anachronism.

The Privacy by Design Research Lab at Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business is working with industry leaders to produce guidelines for businesses worldwide to effectively protect personal data.

NEW YORK - Wiretapping takes on a whole new meaning now that phone calls are being made over the Internet, posing legal and technical hurdles for the FBI as it seeks to prevent the emerging services from becoming a safe haven for criminals and terrorists.

You think the things that you do online are between you and your computer. Not so. Your cyber-privacy is constantly being chipped away: by your Internet provider, your cellphone carrier and lawmakers. Before you post to a social-media site or browse the Internet for that report you're compiling on pedophiles, keep in mind how your actions online are anything but private.

NEW YORK - Two AOL employees were fired and its chief technology officer has left the company following a privacy breach in which the Internet search terms of more than 650,000 subscribers were publicly released.

BRUSSELS, Belgium - An independent European Union panel is investigating whether Google Inc.'s Internet search engine abides by European privacy rules, which tend to be stricter than those in the United States.

MENLO PARK, Calif. - Sheila Vreeburg has entrusted her cell phone number to very few people — her family, close friends and her veterinarian. If she could keep it that way, she would.

NEW YORK - Perhaps the biggest threat to Google Inc.'s increasing dominance of Internet search and advertising is the rising fear, justified or not, that Google's broadening reach is giving it unchecked power.

NEW YORK — In Facebook's vision of the Web, you would no longer be alone and anonymous. Sites would reflect your tastes and interests — as you expressed them on the social network — and you wouldn't have to fish around for news and songs that interest you.

WASHINGTON - A new federal regulation making it easier for law enforcement to tap Internet phone calls is being challenged in court.

HELENA, Mont. -- Job applicants with the city of Bozeman are finding that their private Internet discussions and pictures may not be so private after all.

Sometimes man is too smart for his own good. That's when the things he invents lead to abuse and results that are unbearable and utterly avoidable and often seem to outweigh the benefits of his genius.

Data Doctors: Q. What is www.opendns.com, how does it work, and is this an effective security tool? - Jim

Q: What's the latest with the Internet censorship bills in Congress and what can we do to help defeat them? - Joseph

ANNAPOLIS, Md. - The publisher of a financial newsletter told Maryland's second highest court Wednesday that he should not be forced to disclose his subscriber list and other information sought by an Arizona company seeking those it says made defamatory online comments.

November 3, 2004

You think the things that you do online are between you and your computer. Not so. Your cyber-privacy is constantly being chipped away: by your Internet provider, your cellphone carrier and lawmakers. Before you post to a social-media site or browse the Internet for that report you're compiling on pedophiles, keep in mind how your actions online are anything but private.

NEW YORK - Even as the U.S. government is embroiled in a debate over the legality of wiretapping, the fastestgrowing technology for Internet calls appears to have the potential to make eavesdropping a thing of the past.