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Mozilla, acting on a U.S. Federal Trade Commission proposal, has offered a detailed mechanism by which Firefox and other Web browsers could prevent Web pages from tracking people’s online behavior for advertising purposes. With Mozilla’s do-not-track technology, network data packets from the browser would signal to a Web site that a person doesn’t wished to [...]

Google began offering an encrypted option for Web searchers on Friday and said it planned to roll it out for all of its services eventually. People who want to use the more secure search option can type “https://www.google.com” into their browser, scrambling the connection so the words and phrases they search on, and the results [...]

Shortly after Google announced the partially successful cyberattack on Gmail, the company said it will activate by default a secure network technology for its e-mail service. Google has long offered the option to access its Web-based Gmail service by using HTTPS–a secure version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol that Web browsers use to retrieve information [...]

Google is hoping to make Web pages download up to twice as quickly using SPDY, a new application-layer protocol it’s experimenting with, the company said in a blog post. It wants to improve on the performance of using HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) by minimizing latency. For the protocol to work, the browser and the web [...]