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The social network’s stock offering, expected to value the company at $80 billion to $100 billion, is bound to raise even more concerns about privacy and other issues.

The European Commission has proposed a new set of data protection rules that would give EU citizens a much greater say over how their personal data is collected and stored—including the right to have it deleted entirely.

The response from businesses has been mixed.

A proposed law in Europe would compel Web sites to obtain consent when collecting personal data and to delete that data forever at the consumer’s request.

Sony executives bowed in apology Sunday for a security breach in the company's PlayStation Network that caused the loss of personal data of some 77 million accounts on the online service.

U.S. prosecutors filed criminal charges against two people accused of stealing the e-mail addresses and other personal data of about 120,000 users of Apple Inc's iPad tablet computer.

The Federal Communications Commission has become the latest regulator to investigate Google Inc.'s collection of personal data including emails and passwords through its Street View mapping service.

About 230,000 Anthem Blue Cross customers have been warned that their personal data, including medical records and Social Security numbers, may have been wrongly accessed following a faulty upgrade of the company's website.

A company that guarantees federal student loans said Friday that personal data on about 3.3 million people nationwide has been stolen from its headquarters in Minnesota.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Google has stepped up its privacy efforts, launching a new Web feature Thursday that it claims will give users more control over their personal data.