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A graduate student at Dartmouth College wants to tame the FBI's Carnivore surveillance system. Alex Iliev has proposed a way to force anyone who wants to monitor e-mail or Web browsing to follow the rules -- and not snoop on private . . .
Businesses in the UK, including U.S. firms with branch offices there, may soon face limits on their ability to monitor employee Web surfing and e-mail activity under a new privacy code due to be released by a government body in the . . .
The W3C endorses the Platform for Privacy Preferences, a standard for automating privacy decisions online The World Wide Web Consortium has endorsed a new standard for privacy online.. . .
Teenagers, traveling professionals and tourists vie for one of the store's 800 computer terminals. Nearly every spot is taken during the evening peak hours, when $1 buys about 30 minutes of high-speed Internet access. Such Internet cafes -- stores that provide . . .
THE corporate spy trade is booming. One-quarter of Australia's largest companies admit they are involved in "competitive intelligence gathering", according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers survey. The information-gathering techniques are almost always legal and carried out by trained professionals - often former government intelligence operatives highly trained in obtaining military and economic secrets. . . .
Yahoo's recent announcement of sweeping changes in the way it will use customer data collected under previous policies has many calling Truste's seal as meaningless as an Andersen audit. Even Esther Dyson, the high-profile technologist who played a major role in Truste's launch five years ago, says she is "disappointed in what ended up becoming of it.". . .
When John Perry Barlow and Mitch Kapor founded the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org) in 1990, they envisioned a short-lived nonprofit organization. All it would take, they thought, is one court case to ensure that emerging digital media would receive the same constitutional protection of expression that's extended to traditional ink and paper works.. . .
Security and privacy are at a major turning point in our society. The events of September 11 catalyzed an already rapidly growing trend in the gathering of personal and enterprise information, made possible by advancing technologies. . . .
Watch out--the spam choking your e-mail in-box may be loaded with software that lets marketers track your moves online, and you may not even be aware that you've been bugged. . . .
Doubts over security and privacy must be overcome before enterprises can benefit from the session initiation protocol (SIP). Gunter Ollmann, principal security consultant at ISS, said bringing so many standards under one protocol could be risky.. . .
A California company has quietly attached its software to millions of downloads of the popular Kazaa file-trading program and plans to remotely "turn on" people's PCs, welding them into a new network of its own.. . .
The Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) will soon change all that. Developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), P3P is a specification that standardizes privacy policy generation and enables browsers and plug-ins to translate sites' policies into point-and-click user interfaces.. . .
Now at the start of 2002, British surveillance laws are at risk of infringing what are seen by some as basic human rights. Huge demands have been placed on Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to stockpile traffic data on customers under the new Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Bill (ATCS),. . .
A bill before Congress would mandate built-in copy-protection on all digital devices. But even technology experts who really want to protect intellectual property think it's a lousy idea. If you think techies hate Microsoft, try asking them about Hollings -- Sen. Ernest F. "Fritz" Hollings. . .
The European Parliament published its damning report on Echelon last summer, but public apathy and institutional bureaucracy are stifling further action Nearly seven months after the European Parliament adopted a report that recognised the existence of Echelon, an international spy . . .
More and more people want powerful, easy-to-use encryption software, but the commercial world isn't providing it. Can open source deliver? But online security, just like everything else, is subject to the ebb and flow of capitalism -- and the relentless releases . . .
Privacy advocates have won another round in their fight to gain access to more information about the FBI's Carnivore e-mail surveillance system. A federal judge this week ordered the FBI to expand its search for records about Carnivore, also known as . . .
The most popular sites on the Internet now collect less personal information and offer consumers a broader range of privacy options than ever before, according to a report released by a conservative think-tank today. The study, conducted by the Progress . . .
Several government and industry leaders this weekend criticized proposed legislation that calls on hardware makers to help protect Hollywood's interests, saying lawmakers should not decide the tech industry's "winners and losers." Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash.; Les Vadasz, president of Intel Capital; . . .
New Zealand telecommunications network operators and Internet service providers will be legally obligated to install a system that will allow police or the secret service to eavesdrop on phone calls or e-mail messages, the New Zealand government has confirmed. . . .
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