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Web Users Complacent Over Identity Theft Risks

An alarming number of web users are risking identify theft because of their poor online behaviour

Google is to enforce its real name policy on Google+, giving those using fakes name four days to change

LinkedIn has relented, following public pressure, after it quietly changed its users’ privacy settings

LinkedIn has quietly changed its users' privacy settings without explicitly warning of the change

Preserving the open nature of the Internet can be more complicated than it seems, says the Internet Society's Markus Kummer