Many of the headlines today discuss a story mentioned earlier today on this site — how Twitter got hacked and TechCrunch decided to publish some of the documents they were sent by the hacker.

Steve Ragan of Tech Herald provides coverage of the ethical controversy raised by Tech Crunch's …

Michael Arrington of TechCrunch discusses the dilemma they grappled with when they received a zip file from "Hacker Croll" containing hundreds of confidential corporate and personal documents of Twitter and Twitter employees.

There is clearly an ethical line here that we don’t want to cross, and the vast majority of these …

Controversial new mobile phone directory service 118800.co.uk has crashed, after thousands of users flocked online to remove their numbers from the site, according to reports.

The site, which launched last month, now displays holding page which reads “service suspended while we make improvements”.

Read more on v3.co.uk. The service, which has …

While attitudes toward privacy can appear paradoxical, the seeming contradiction is really about something else: control. When people bare their bodies on Facebook or their souls in the digital confessional of Google’s search engine, they feel as if they are in charge. Not so, when the private embarrassments come to …

TALX Corporation, a subsidiary of Equifax Inc., has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated federal law by failing to provide certain disclosures to users of their consumer reports and to entities that provide information for consumer reports. The proposed settlement requires TALX to pay a $350,000 …

Settlements have been reached between the Indiana Attorney General's office and two pharmacy chains – CVS and Walgreens – to resolve data-breach complaints that customers' medical information was improperly discarded in trash bins outside pharmacy stores. The agreement comes as the Attorney General begins a new concerted effort geared to …

It started with a situation described on The Consumerist:

Don't install the iPhone app iDrive Lite if you value the privacy of your contact list. Avi Muchnick, one of the developers behind the free, consumer-friendly online graphics suite Aviary, used iDrive to backup his Gmail contact list when switching to a …

Power.com is fighting back against Facebook's lawsuit (pdf). Today, Power.com filed a response and countersuit (pdf).

In the filing, Power.com claims that some of the actions attributed to Power.com by Facebook, such as sending out emails to contacts, actually were the doing of Facebook itself and that it was Facebook itself …

Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that he has served the social networking site Tagged.com (“Tagged”) with formal notice that his office intends to sue the company for deceptive email marketing practices and invasion of privacy. According to Cuomo’s notice of intent, Tagged devised an illegal plan to …

British police said on Thursday they would not reopen investigations into the interception of celebrities' mobile phone voicemails by journalists, despite new allegations against a Rupert Murdoch newspaper.

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Assistant Commissioner John Yates of the Metropolitan Police said the original probe had concluded that phone tapping had occurred in only a …