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Richard Smith Named CTO At Privacy Foundation For Data Tracking Initiatives

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Software engineer Richard Smith has made a hobby of catching Internet software as it harvests user data without the user --- or sometimes the software maker -- knowing it. On Wednesday he took that hobby to a new level as he . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 28, 2000

Email Monitoring For Enhanced Corporate Cybersecurity Impact

Email monitoring is set to be the next cyber cash-cow, according to a report out today. It may sound slightly Big Brotherish, but more and more companies are latching onto the idea of monitoring staff email to stop unwanted . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 27, 2000

UK Legislation Advances: Email Snooping Bill Expected To Pass

The British government expects a bill to allow police and security services to trawl private e-mails to become law after it returns to the House of Commons Wednesday, officials said. ``We are not expecting any trouble. It should go through the . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 26, 2000

Leading Internet Firms Announce Public Service for Online Privacy

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Internet industry titans are putting aside their differences, just this once, to agree on a public service campaign on online privacy to be announced Tuesday.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 26, 2000

FBI's Carnivore: Debating Online Surveillance and Privacy Risks

United States officials are trying to calm concerns about a new FBI internet-wiretapping system called Carnivore, describing it as a "small-scale device" and insisting that fears of broad online surveillance are exaggerated. Carnivore allows US law enforcement agencies to find and . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 26, 2000

Senator McCain Introduces Privacy Bill for Websites' Data Practices

Commercial Web sites that collect "personally identifiable information" would be required to disclose what kind of information they collect from potential customers and how they use it, under legislation scheduled to be introduced today by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. McCain, chairman . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 26, 2000

TRUSTe Initiative: Launching Consumer Education for Online Privacy

The nonprofit advocacy group that has stamped its privacy seal of approval on nearly 2,000 Web sites will team up with a dozen major Internet companies to launch a consumer education campaign. TRUSTe plans to announce its "Privacy Partnership 2000 Campaign" . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 25, 2000

FBI's Carnivore: An Analysis of Secret Surveillance Methods

J. Edgar Hoover would have been darned proud of Carnivore, the secret cyber-snooping technology that the FBI seemingly lifted straight from the pages of George Orwell's "1984." That's enough to give me a case of the heebie-jeebies. The existence of this . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 24, 2000

Strategies To Mitigate Data Tracking Risks In Linux Systems

In Linux, there is no system registry, so there is no easy way for companies to track much information about you. The prospect of software in Linux sending information without my knowledge, while possible, hardly seemed worth worrying about. That is, . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 24, 2000

Carnivore: Network-Based Monitoring Tool Used by FBI for Data Interception

Robert X. Cringely speaks about Carnivore. "Here's all the FBI will say about Carnivore. It sits on the network at the ISP, is PC-based, is "a kind of a sniffer," identifies and saves packets associated with suspected criminals, is installed . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 23, 2000

New Bipartisan Bill Requires Employer Notification on Monitoring

Two conservative House Republicans joined a liberal Senate Democrat Thursday in introducing legislation to require employers to notify workers if they're monitoring their electronic communications at work. Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga., and Rep. Charles Canady, R-Fla., sponsored the House version of . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 23, 2000

Bipartisan Bill Proposes Transparency In Workplace Monitoring Practices

A group of bipartisan lawmakers introduced a bill today that would ban companies from secretly monitoring employees' electronic communications. The bill wouldn't prohibit companies from snooping, but would require them to disclose their monitoring practices to employees when they are hired . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 21, 2000

George W. Bush Website Cookie Tracking Violates Privacy Policy

A redesigned Web site unveiled Wednesday by Texas Gov. George W. Bush may violate his campaign's privacy protection policy, a privacy expert says. "Everywhere I clicked there was a cookie," says Deborah Pierce of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, referring to small . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 21, 2000

The Crucial Role of Chief Privacy Officers in E-Commerce Companies

E-commerce companies begin to realize that they need another acronym on their org charts: the CPO. Reporter Chris Oakes discusses the challenge of a chief privacy officer to keep a company on the level and in the black.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 20, 2000

ACLU FOIA Request For FBI Internet Wiretapping Programs

In what may be the first request of its kind, the American Civil Liberties Union is asking the Federal Bureau of Investigation to disclose the computer source code and other technical details about its new Internet wiretapping programs. In a Freedom . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 19, 2000

Examining ISP's Email Requests For User Credentials and Security Risks

A reader was somewhat surprised by his ISP's apparent disregard for security when he received an email requesting his username and password. The request came as part of an update email from themutual.net, telling him what news features had been . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 18, 2000

Exploring GPS Tracking Innovations And Their Privacy Impacts

One company is making it easier for folks to "track" anyone, by allowing them to pull up a map of the person's location on a personal digital assistant (PDA) or computer. Fleet Tracking lets businesses such as taxi companies and . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 18, 2000

EarthLink Fights Back: FBI Won't Use Carnivore Surveillance

EarthLink Inc., an Atlanta-based Internet service provider, says it has reached an agreement with the FBI in which the agency has agreed not to install its Carnivore Internet surveillance system on EarthLink's network. EarthLink was involved in a court battle with . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 17, 2000

Privacy Advocacy Mounts Against Browser Cookies in Summer 2023

Privacy advocates are jumping up and down in protest about the Internet this summer, and they're landing hard on browser cookies--small records placed on an Internet user's computer during a visit to a Web site. That Web site can read the . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 17, 2000

EarthLink: Rejects FBI Surveillance Device Over Network Concerns

Saying it could cause technical problems and bring part of its system down, EarthLink Inc., one of the country's largest Internet service providers (ISPs), has reportedly refused to install a new FBI electronic surveillance device on its network. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 17, 2000

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