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watchdog group slams google on privacy
google inc.'s privacy practices are the worst among the internet's top destinations, according to a watchdog group seeking to intensify the recent focus on how the online search leader handles personal information about its users. [washingtonpost.com]

symantec launches norton antibot as public beta
symantec has announced the release of the new norton antibot product to public beta testing. based on technology licensed from sana security, nab is designed to detect bots and other malware strictly based on behavior, without requiring predefined signatures. [pcmag.com]

laws threaten security researchers
the computer security institute (csi) recently formed a working group of web researchers, computer crime law experts, and u.s. department of justice agents to explore the effects of laws that might hinder web 2.0 vulnerability research. [darkreading.com]

mpaa accuses torrentspy of concealing evidence
the courts have for the first time found that the electronic trail briefly left in a computer server's ram, or random access memory, by each visitor to a site is "stored information" and must be turned over as evidence during litigation. [news.com]

amero granted new trial
a superior court judge wednesday granted a new trial for julie amero, 40, a norwich substitute teacher whose faulty computer spewed pornographic images in her seventh grade classroom. [hartford courant]

firefox 3.0 to include 'get me outta here' malware protection
in the upcoming firefox 3.0 browser, the mozilla foundation is going beyond firefox 2.0's protection of users' personal information to actually blocking web sites that it thinks are planning to plant malware. [eweek security watch]