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A panel concludes that customers can choose to do business with companies that they trust and avoid ones that they don't. As the debate over how to regulate online privacy continues, some experts say consumers ultimately will have the most control . . .
More and more Web-enabled gadgets collect data on customers. That makes privacy advocates mad, but the resulting furor doesn't last long. During the annual Computers Freedom and Privacy 2001 conference last March, privacy activist Richard Smith held up the SportBrain exercise . . .
Scott McNealy, once vexed privacy activists by claiming that "you have zero privacy anyway -- get over it."Now the Sun Microsystems CEO is saying that "absolute privacy is a disaster waiting to happen."In an opinionated article published in The Washington . . .
Vint Cerf, a founding father of today's Internet, said on Thursday that European Union plans for new rules to fight crime on the Web risked clashing with existing EU privacy regulations. Cerf, who helped develop the Internet in the early 70s . . .
Rise of Online Data Brokers Makes Criminal Impersonation Easier. The identity thieves began their scam the old-fashioned way, stealing credit card statements, new bank checks and other documents from mailboxes. Using an America Online e-mail account and one of the stolen . . .
The Privacy Amendment Act was put forward at the end of last year to ensure that the personal information kept by the private sector was both secure and accessible to individuals. But with a deadline of December this year, are companies . . .
Online anonymity makes it more difficult for law enforcement to successfully catch and prosecute Internet-based criminals, and the U.S. government needs more help from the business community to overcome the unique challenges that online crime presents, Attorney General John Ashcroft said. . . .
The system promises to protect networks by constantly rotating their IP addresses, making them a moving target for would-be hackers. The one-time head of the KGB's overseas code-scrambling unit and an ex-director of the CIA have teamed up to develop what . . .
Under a draft proposal from the European Commission, backed by police, all emails and other Internet traffic would be logged and kept for up to seven years. European Home Office officials are supporting demands from law enforcement . . .
A group of hackers has alarmed law enforcement agencies with plans for a browser that could make it impossible to control the material people have access to on the world wide web. The US-based "ethical" hacking group, Cult of the Dead . . .
Web businesses would be forced to shell out as much as $100,000 apiece in compliance costs if Congress passes online privacy legislation mandating consumer access and enforcement provisions, according to a new study. Privacy advocates say the study erroneously assumes most . . .
An Internet privacy group has filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests at five executive branch agencies in a bid to gauge the Bush administration's commitment on a range of privacy protection issues during its first 100 days in office. In . . .
Cult of the Dead Cow plans to launch a peer-to-peer tool at this summer's Defcon to fight government censorship of the Web. A computer hacking group best known for creating tools for hijacking computer systems is turning its . . .
The value of the Internet as a forum for citizens to share controversial or unpopular views safe from the threat of persecution would be seriously undermined if courts compromised the right of Internet users to use aliases, Caplan said. "It . . .
Privacy advocates met with Attorney General John Ashcroft on Thursday to express their concerns about how law enforcement agencies monitor citizens. They the FBI would stop its "Carnivore" e-mail surveillance system.
Piracy advocates claim that the use of sophisticated Web bug tracking devices "has grown dramatically" over the past year. More than 30 per cent of Web pages sampled during last year's Christmas season contained new generations of Web bugs that the . . .
Ratcheting up its attack on government cyber-surveillance efforts, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is launching a print and Internet advertising campaign that warns of "massive" government monitoring efforts. In a full-page ad set to debut later this month in issues . . .
Echelon, the international spy network allegedly set up to listen in on civilians' electronic communications, will get some of its most public exposure to date this weekend, when a prominent U.S. civil rights group runs a full-page advertisement in the New . . .
The transatlantic tug of war over privacy standards notched up as the Bush administration complained to the European Union about the burden its rules will put on U.S. financial institutions.. . .
Interactive TV is taking off - but the price may be more than some bargained for. Web users have grown used to the idea that companies collect information about their online habits as a price for providing them . . .
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