Global Coverage: Privacy issues

Jun 18 - From the exchange of online data to next-generation CCTV technologies, views and values are shifting when it comes to privacy.

Richard Edgar introduces Global Coverage of privacy issues, and a report by Matt Cowan on how tech companies are profiting from what they learn about online activity.

Follow Reuters Global Coverage on privacy.

• Global Coverage: Privacy issues
  Richard Edgar introduces the Global Coverage.
• CCTV that spies and says more
  Already the most intensely-monitored country in the world, Britain is now home to a new generation of closed-circuit television cameras
• The trickiness of tracking tastes
  From scanning emails to 'scrobbling' music tracks, technology companies are profiting from tracking their users' online activities.
• The Google view of privacy
  Google's global privacy counsel Peter Fleischer discusses the company's recent concessions and future plans with Reuters TV in Paris.

  Click here to visit Reuters Privacy web site and learn how to protect your security online.