Privacy News

EDITOR'S NOTE -- This story, part of a series on the growing industry of radio frequency identification technology and its impact on business, government, health and personal privacy in America, explores its use in passports and driver's licenses.

Iran is very sophisticated in their Internet censorship. When Iran first started doing this, it was very unstructured and easy to get around. People had no trouble defeating the censorship methods employed by the government and it was only a minor inconvenience, but it was the principle of the blocks that angered them.

Google's announcement Tuesday that it is developing an open-source operating system raised questions among privacy advocates about the amount of personal data Google will be able to collect.

"We are all in the privacy business". This was my general conclusion when working on next generation usability for the popular directory look-up portal whitepages.com website .

The U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia has enjoined the Virginia Attorney General from enforcing certain provisions of Virginia's Personal Information Privacy Act against a plaintiff for simply republishing publicly available documents which contained individual Social Security numbers.

Haifa has developed software that more efficiently and effectively hides sensitive or personal information that might otherwise appear on the computer screens of unauthorized personnel.

It's one of the classic ethical dilemmas of modern times: when is it justified to override privacy concerns in the interest of public safety? The New York Times used two recent New York court cases to illustrate how law enforcers are increasingly using data retreived from mobile phones as evidence to prosecute suspects.

Internet service provider TalkTalk will not use behavioural advertising services from Phorm.

In the early days of personal computing, users depended on "local" drives and stored their data on floppy disks kept in containers on desktops or in drawers.

When many nurses reflect on ethical dilemmas, the topics of dying patients or the equitable distribution of medical services immediately come to mind, but there are many other issues nurses face that are just as important and complex.

British telecommunications provider BT PLC is indefinitely shelving plans to target online advertising to individual customers by using Web monitoring techniques that have drawn privacy complaints.

Consumer groups and technology firms squared off in front of federal regulators Monday on the issue of how Canada's largest cable and telecommunications companies manage the flow of Web traffic on their networks, offering competing views on online privacy and how congested the Canadian Internet really is.

Mikhail Mallayev, who was convicted in March of murdering an orthodontist whose wife wanted him killed during a bitter custody battle, stayed off his cellphone the morning of the shooting in Queens.

Germany's biggest bank, Deutsche Bank, hired detectives to spy on its employees including a member of its supervisory board, managers and a shareholder, German magazine Der Spiegel reported.

Privacy has never been a big issue for me. Growing up on a prairie, my bedroom had no blinds nor any need; the neighbors were miles away.

Just because globalization at this point seems unstoppable doesn't mean it's going to be easy.

The Canadian House of Commons in April introduced a bill to create the Electronic Commerce Protection Act -Canada's version of the U.S. CAN-SPAM legislation, with some significant differences.

July 4, 2009 12:01 AM New communication channels make it ridiculously easy for employees to lose corporate data.

Behavioral advertising, in which users are fed ads based on the interests revealed by their Web browsing habits, has an obvious appeal to advertisers, as it will ostensibly allow them to serve ads to the most relevant audiences.

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