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At the turn of the century just past, mining companies would use a brightly colored bird in the mine shaft to protect the lives of citizens. These canaries were more sensitive to the foul, noxious and deadly but invisible vapors that . . .
Technology company's lifeblood depends on the secrecy of its intellectual property. Most companies safeguard sensitive trade secrets with confidentiality agreements--but many of these agreements aren't as comprehensive as they need to be. . .
The chief security officer (CSO) position has matured to the point where the title isn't particularly jarring when you see it on a business card. However, the same probably cannot be said for the chief privacy officer (CPO) job. . .
The RIAA is preparing to infect MP3 files in order to audit and eventually disable file swapping, according to a startling claim by hacker group Gobbles. In a posting to the Bugtraq mailing list, Gobbles himself claims to have offered his . . .
Richard Thomas has called for the private sector to punish companies that don't respect customers' personal information. Breaking the government's 'culture of secrecy' while protecting the privacy of UK citizens is one of the key challenges facing the new Information . . .
Email "spam" is in the eye of the reader-one person's valued information may be another person's spam. You know your list is truly opt-in, but people are so sensitive these days that you risk being branded as a spammer even if . . .
The spam situation is rapidly deteriorating. The percentage of inbound SMTP traffic classified as spam can be as high as 40 percent for some organizations. With no end in sight to rising spam volume, Meta Group believes companies must be . . .
The bad news is no secret, but it bears repeating: If you have bought anything online in the past several years, your personal information Latest News about personal information, including your home address and credit card number, is probably accessible via . . .
I am not a spammer and never have been. I do not support spammers and never have done so. I believe that spam is a first-class annoyance and ought to be stopped somehow. One of my servers is listed on an . . .
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Ben Franklin wrote those words over 200 years ago, and, as we reach the end of 2002, the state of important liberties . . .
Watching the TV drama Law & Order, Detective Briscoe confronts the manager of a seedy Times Square hotel, demanding records of the suspect in room 206. The manager, behind a wall of bulletproof glass and wearing a stained T-shirt, tells the . . .
If you're feeling fenced in some day, you may decide to take a trip to your favorite gambling mecca, where anything goes. Before you leave, you may want to tell your friends, and while you're at it, let them know what you've been doing lately. Depending on where you are, and whether what you do sounds suspicious, the government may read that e-mail.. . .
In a move that started as a project to save money on film storage, British Pathe has put more than 3,500 hours of its old newsreels online, creating what it says is the largest online digital news archive. The move . . .
Looks like what little privacy we enjoy online is about to dwindle even further. Ho, ho, ho, boys and girls. Yahoo's announcement this week that it plans to acquire search-engine powerhouse Inktomi for $235 million raises all sorts of troubling . . .
Former Virginia Gov. James S. Gilmore III acknowledged that the idea makes him nervous, but the commission that he leads to assess the domestic response to terrorism recommended to the president and Congress that a new intelligence agency be formed to . . .
Businesses often fail to disclose security breaches to police, let alone to the public, out of fear they will damage their reputation and open themselves to lawsuits. But Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) is circulating a draft bill that would change that . . .
In the days before Christmas the amount of spam e-mail being sent and received looks set to soar as marketing machines and e-greetings firms go into seasonal overdrive. As well as being inundated with the perennial spam emails about scams . . .
A US bulk emailer is threatening legal action after so-called "anti-spammers" signed him up for lots of junk mail. Detroit Free Press tech columnist Mike Wendland reported last week that Alan Ralsky is now experiencing what it likes to be . . .
Is there a constitutional right to communicate with others anonymously? Though the United States has a distinguished tradition of anonymous (and pseudonymous) publication -- the Federalist Papers, written by Alexander Hamilton and James Madison but published under the pseudonym Publius being . . .
Contrary to popular belief, the majority of American office workers aren't overwhelmed with unsolicited "spam" e-mail, and most consider e-mail very valuable in helping them do their jobs, a new study shows. More than 60 percent of people employed in the U.S. have Internet access at work and virtually all of those use e-mail on the job. . .
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