• Berners-Lee: Demand your data from Internet companies

  Tim Berners-Lee has said that the problem with companies like Facebook and Google is not that they collect vast troves of data about their users, but that they don't share with them what they learn from it.

• FTC's online privacy report: Breaking down the recommendations

  The Federal Trade Commission's final report on online consumer privacy can be summed up thusly: We've made progress but there's still a lot of work to do.

• Adobe confirms no Flash for Chrome on Android

  Chrome for Android will not run Flash Player, the popular software that Apple has famously banned, Adobe confirmed yesterday.

• W3C releases draft online privacy standards

  The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released the first draft of two standards intended to protect the privacy of Web users and allow them to opt out of Web tracking systems.

• Flash Player demise on desktop inevitable, but years away, say analysts

  Adobe's decision to stop Flash Player development for mobile browsers will likely be repeated for browsers on the desktop, just not anytime soon, analysts said today.

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