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With the US government's admission this week of the use of drones for surveillance on US soil, civil liberty advocates fret that Americans' right to privacy could be endangered.

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Facebook users who check into a store or click the "like" button for a brand may soon find those actions retransmitted on their friends' pages as a "Sponsored Story" paid for by advertisers.

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The latest Facebook privacy fiasco shows that the world's largest online social hub is having a hard time putting this thorny issue behind it even as it continues to attract users and become indispensible to many of them.

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Facebook's plan to spread its online social network to other websites could be detoured by regulators looking into privacy concerns that have raised the ire of federal lawmakers.

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A privacy watchdog group complained to federal regulators on Tuesday about Google's new Buzz social networking service, saying it violates federal consumer protection law.

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NEW YORK (AP) – A Washington-based privacy advocacy group has filed a complaint against Facebook over the social network's latest privacy changes.

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Google Inc. will use its surveillance of Web surfing habits to figure out which ads are best suited to each individual's interests — a practice likely to illuminate just how much the Internet search leader has been learning about millions of people around the world.

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