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A Web site operated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) today discontinued marking visitors with a unique identification tag, or "cookie," after a non-profit group complained about the practice. The use of "persistent" cookies at the CIA's Electronic Reading Room . . .
Web site operated by the Central Intelligence Agency is marking visitors with a unique identification tag or "cookie" that violates federal privacy guidelines and the agency's own privacy policy., according to Public Information Research, a non-profit group. The CIA's Electronic . . .
Controversial spying and bugging software, Dirt, exposed by vnunet.com last summer, was revealed to be a bit more than vapourware when it turned up on a Dutch website last week. Dirt first hit the headlines last May, when it emerged that . . .
Zero Knowledge Systems has added a low-cost surfing plug-in for Windows Internet Explorer that lets you bypass much of the junk that online advertisers and spammers use to build up user profiles. WebSecure costs $49.95 and it works by encrypting and rerouting traffic through ZKS' proxy servers.. . .
A closely-held software package designed to allow law enforcement agencies to secretly monitor a suspect's computer turned up on an anonymous Web site in the Netherlands Wednesday, along with user manuals, financial information, contracts and invoices apparently stolen from the company . . .
A member of the ACLU goes against a member of the DOJ to discuss this issue. "Several years ago, Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy stirred up a storm of controversy when he declared, "You have zero privacy." The Sept. 11 terrorist . . .
AOL Time Warner's Netscape unit is snooping on searches performed by users of its latest Navigator browser at Google and other search sites. According to a network traffic analysis performed by Newsbytes, Netscape is capturing Navigator 6 users' search terms, along . . .
A prominent Internet privacy advocate says Microsoft Corp. should have warned consumers that the media player that ships with its new Windows XP operating system connects to a server operated by the software giant and reports what DVDs customers insert into their PCs.. . .
Peek-A-Booty is designed to let surfers access sites blocked by government restrictions, and is essentially, a distributed proxy network. It uses a peer-to-peer model, masking the identity of each node. So the user can route around censorship that blocks citizens' access to specific IP addresses, because the censor doesn't know they're going there. . . .
Source code for ZeroKnowledge Systems' discontinued anonymous Internet service has leaked onto the Web, apparently with the blessing of ZKS' Chief Scientist Ian Goldberg. The announcement was made on Goldberg's behalf at the CodeCon conference by Len Sassaman, co-organizer of the three day grassroots P2P and crypto conference.. . .
SafeWeb, a leading provider of Web-based security and privacy technologies, today announced that it will address JavaScript security vulnerabilities in its licensed consumer privacy technology that were highlighted in a recent a study. The company closed down the free privacy service in November 2001 for financial reasons.. . .
The Government's plan to examine the use of biometrics on identity cards could bring real benefits to the general public, security experts believe. Biometric technology, which uses fingerprint data and iris scans to identify people, offers enhanced security when used with . . .
SafeWeb has pledged to repair security problems reported this week in its anonymous-surfing technology. The Emeryville, Calif. firm, which has received funding from the CIA, said late Wednesday it soon would release a patch to fix Javascript bugs that can decloak users by exposing their Internet addresses.. . .
Although SafeWeb's Web anonymizing service has been shut down since December, they claimed it was the "most widely used online privacy service in the world". .. Andrew Schulman and I have just finished a technical report detailing SafeWeb's catastrophic failures under the simplest of JavaScript attacks by Web sites or firewalls (e.g., by redirecting to a page containing the exploit).. . .
A leading Internet privacy group has created an e-mail certification program that, while not doing away with spam, will require member companies to identify themselves when sending unsolicited messages. The program, announced Thursday at the 2nd Annual Privacy Summit in Washington, . . .
The information commissioner is trying to allay business fears about using customer data. Do it - but do it within the law, says Elizabeth France. Privacy legislation need not hold back the deployment of CRM systems or other data-centric business . . .
Maybe you remember the quaint old days, early in 2001, when privacy still mattered. That was before Big Business used its clout to sweep aside or neuter an assortment of legislative and regulatory proposals. They might have given you and me . . .
Taxpayers who rely on H&R Block or TurboTax software may be able to bypass the middleman and file, online, directly to the tax collector, under a plan being developed by the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS, backed by the White House . . .
Phil Zimmermann, the creator of the Pretty Good Privacy encryption tool, says that widespread surveillance is leading us into an Orwellian future Phil Zimmermann, creator of Pretty Good Privacy encryption -- better known as PGP -- was in Italy this week for the InfoSecurity conference.. . .
Further developments on the DMCA, and how Philips plans to deal with the record labels and their efforts to create music CDs that can't be read on computer disc drives, thereby reportedly preventing copying. "Aside from its ownership of the compact disc trademark, Philips is a major manufacturer of CD burners, and Wirtz said future Philips machines will likely be able to both read and burn the protected CDs. . .
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