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Federal Trade Commission chairman Timothy J. Muris is to announce Thursday that his agency will not seek stronger consumer privacy laws. His position is a reversal of Clinton-era policy that said consumer privacy laws were needed to protect personal data on . . .
The legal you is an increasingly documented entity, a single record in a vast and growing database. A political data point that was born with, has earned or has been granted certain rights and permissions - everything from driving a car . . .
Civil liberties groups are concerned that the anti-terrorism bill proposed by the Bush Administration would lump small-time hackers in with murderous terrorists. The draft proposal from Attorney General John Ashcroft would expand law enforcement's freedom to catch and punish terrorists. It . . .
At any other time, a gathering of privacy mavens, policy-makers and legal experts in Paris might make for an interesting if laidback discussion on the ethical niceties of balancing national security and personal privacy. In the aftermath of the terrorist . . .
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urges continued activism against the "Anti-Terrorism Act" (ATA), proposed by the US Department of Justice, and related legislation (presently 3 bills), because many provisions of the bills would dramatically alter the civil liberties landscape through unnecessarily broad restrictions on free speech and privacy rights in the United States and abroad. Your urgent action is needed TODAY.. . .
President Bush's proposal to permit Internet surveillance without a court order drew sharp questions from senators on Tuesday. Members of the Senate Judiciary committee appeared divided over whether the Mobilization Against Terrorism Act (MATA), which the Justice Department sent to Congress . . .
While US congressional committees are holding meetings to consider legislation by the Justice Department, organisations such as the Electronic Privacy Information Center (Epic) are urging Congress to be careful of changes that will affect privacy and constitutional rights. Topics under consideration . . .
US lawmakers may be asked to give the FBI a "software key" to encryption technology that would allow the agency to unlock secret Internet messages but experts warn the measure would impair commerce and violate privacy right without deterring terrorism. The . . .
Although renewed calls for a national identity card have sparked a heated debate in the United States in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack, such cards are the norm in most of the world.. . .
Technology is the ultimate chameleon, taking on the characteristics of its handler. In some hands technology is a tool of treachery, while in others it morphs into a peaceful protest. In still others, it represents the bleeding edge of freedom. . . .
CHAIRMAN and Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison has called for a national identification (ID) card to be issued to all U.S. citizens in an effort to help prevent future terrorist attacks. To help build such a system, Ellison has reportedly offered . . .
Tools acquired by the Google search engine could make its results more relevant to users - but it runs the risk of infringing privacy. Google looks set to add personalisation features to its popular search engine, following the acquisition of Outride's intellectual property assets, announced yesterday.. . .
The debate over the ethics of using an employer's system to surf the Net is ongoing. Employee privacy rights and whether or not the company owns the contents of employees' machines are just two facets of it. The opportunity for system . . .
Significant and perhaps worrisome changes in the government's Internet surveillance authority have been proposed by legislators in the wake of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Indeed, so much is happening so quickly it's hard to keep . . .
In the wake of last week's terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, all kinds of fancy machines--from facial-recognition databases to advanced luggage scanners to glorified autopilots--have been proposed as technological fixes in the fight against terrorism. So what do such . . .
Created in response to last week's bloody attacks, the draft "Mobilization Against Terrorism Act" (MATA) rewrites laws dealing with wiretapping, eavesdropping and immigration. The draft, intended to increase prosecutors' courtroom authority, also unleashes the government's Echelon and Carnivore spy systems. President . . .
There's no doubt that public sentiment has shifted to favor those who would give primacy to security, even at the expense of civil liberties. Lawmakers are being buoyed by John and Jane Q. Citizen's apparent willingness to say, "Hey, I'm not . . .
A controversial law was recently drafted, although not yet introduced, by U.S. Sen. Fritz Hollings (D-South Carolina), chairman of the Senate Commerce committee, and Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), titled "The Security Systems Standards and Certification Act" (SSSCA).. . .
What's that unknown person with the laptop sitting on a bench outside your office doing? If you're running an 802.11-based wireless LAN, that person could be watching your employees' every online move.. . .
The U.S. National Security Agency engaged the so-called Echelon communications monitoring network, following on warnings of possible terrorist attacks, as long as three months ago, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper reported. . . .
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