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Copy-proof CDs shrouded in secrecy

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Slipped quietly alongside regular music CDs in record stores, mostly in Europe, are more than 1 million secretly altered discs -- stealth compact discs that represent the recording industry's hopes for a solution to digital music piracy. The five major record . . .

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Judge: Cable ISP must give customer info to feds

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Optimum Choice, a cable Internet service provider (ISP) operated by New York-based Cablevision, confirmed Thursday that a federal judge has ordered the company to turn over information about its customers to federal authorities without alerting the customers that their information is . . .

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Carnivore to add wireless to its menu?

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Federal law enforcement officials may use a controversial surveillance technology to monitor e-mail and other text messages delivered through wireless devices, such as cell phones--a fact that has one telecommunications group concerned.. . .

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FBI Could Tap Into Wireless E-Mail

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Federal law enforcement authorities may soon expand the use of a controversial FBI monitoring system to capture e-mail and other text messages sent through wireless telephone carriers, as well as messages from their Internet service providers, according to a telecommunications industry group.. . .

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Microsoft takes Passport to Washington for talks

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A Washington-based privacy group held the first of what will be a series of discussions with Microsoft Corp. Wednesday regarding the future of the software maker's Passport authentication service. The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) solicited talks with members of . . .

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EU to tackle internet security

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Alarmed at the disclosure of the existence of a controversial email and telephone eavesdropping network, Echelon, the European Commission has already taken the step of urging the public to encrypt all their emails. There is deep concern within the European . . .

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Excite@Home snoops on user downloads

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The company is scanning its customers' Internet activity and says it will terminate the accounts of those users who are downloading pirated material. Excite@Home Australia users are up in arms over the telco's random raids on their broadband accounts in search of pirate activity, with many saying it's an invasion of their privacy.. . .

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Privacy Wonk Warns of Web Gadgets

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Personal Web-enabled devices promise to give consumers a more efficient, highly connected lifestyle. But as users introduce these products into their home, with them come a whole new category of privacy breaches, warned Richard Smith, CTO of the Privacy Foundation, in . . .

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EFF Praise For Court's Privacy Decision

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation is praising a California court decision that protects the right to post to the Internet anonymously. The case pitted free-speech advocates, such as the foundation, against companies and others unhappy with anonymous notes that are critical of . . .

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Privacy experts slam snooping code of practice

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Cyber-liberty experts are frustrated that the Home Office consultation paper offers no guidelines on the legitimate interception of communications. Privacy experts have slammed the Home Office's draft Code of Practice for accessing communications data as a nebulous attempt . . .

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Big Brother is watching Britain

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Along with the expanding speed camera network, Britain's CCTV network is the most extensive in Europe, leading to fears about civil liberties. Ever get the feeling someone is watching you? In Britain it is more likely to be true than anywhere else in Europe. . . .

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'Web Bugs' Are Tracking Use of Internet

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Many people who have personal Web pages are unknowingly tracking people who visit and sending the information to third parties, according to a new report. The report -- which will be released today by Cyveillance, which tracks Internet sites for corporate . . .

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Guidelines back employee rights to e-privacy

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New guidelines that suggest staff may get greater protection against employers snooping on their e-mail and internet use were greeted with concern by industry on Friday. The guidelines on staff surveillance have been set for government departments and agencies. They suggest . . .

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Security firms want video-surveillance law

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Facing a growing public backlash, the security industry called on Congress Wednesday to regulate the use of surveillance systems that match faces of people on the street with a database of known criminals. The developer of a prominent face-scanning system, along . . .

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Bruce Perens on Dimitry Sklyarov: Enemy or friend?

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This August 2nd article by Bruce Parens does a great job of explaining why the cryptography used by Adobe was easily compromised and the information Sklyarov presented at DEFCON. "E-book publishers might think of jailed Russian cryptanalyst Dimitry Sklyarov as their worst enemy... until they see his slide show.. . .

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Judges furious over being watched

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Privacy advocates hope a simmering dispute within the federal judiciary over Internet use will spark changes to federal laws on employer monitoring of company networks. A group of senior West Coast judges, angry that their online activity is monitored by a . . .

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Bills Would Alter Financial Privacy Protections

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Just before their August recess, House lawmakers introduced two bills to change the way a new financial services law protects private customer data. Reps. Edward Markey, D-Mass., and Joe Barton, R-Texas, introduced H.R. 2720, the "Markey-Barton Consumers' Right to Financial Privacy . . .

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Face ID Technology Gets Federal Funding

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A company that touts its facial identification system as a powerful new tool for security and crime fighting has received millions of dollars in federal funding to improve its surveillance technology for military and intelligence uses, according to documents and interviews.. . .

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