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47 min ago | WHDH

Chips in official IDs raise privacy fears

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.

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Related Topix: San Francisco, CA, Science / Technology, Computer Security, RFID News

Fri Jul 10, 2009

ezinearticles.com | Martin Greif

Technology Reaches Farther Than Ever

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.

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Related Topix: Tampa, FL, Social Software

Thu Jul 09, 2009

www.itworld.com | Martin Greif

Google's new OS raises privacy, antitrust concerns

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.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Internet, Science / Technology, Microsoft

www.demystifyingusability.com | Martin Greif

Privacy: your biggest user experience challenge

"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 .

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Social Software, Internet, Science / Technology

lawprofessors.typepad.com | Martin Greif

District Court Enjoins Va. Attorney General From Enforcing Privacy Law Against Website Operator

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.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Social Security, Hanover County, VA

PhysOrg Weblog

IBM Researchers Develop Shield to Mask Sensitive On-Screen Information

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.

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Related Topix: IBM

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Cellphone data raises new questions in safety vs. privacy debate

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.

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Related Topix: Publishing, New York Times, Cell Phones, Electronics

Silicon.com

TalkTalk says bye-bye to Phorm agreement after Tiscali buy

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

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Related Topix: Internet Service Providers, Science / Technology

Wed Jul 08, 2009

Legal Times

Cloud Computing Brings New Legal Challenges

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.

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Related Topix: Science, Computer Science, Cloud Computing, Science / Technology, Computers, Healthcare Law, Law

ADVANCE for Nurses

Nursing's Problematic Informatics

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.

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Related Topix: Nursing, Medicine, Opinion

Tue Jul 07, 2009

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

BT shelves Phorm's Web usage monitoring for ads

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.

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Related Topix: Telecom, BT Group, Computers, Internet Service Providers

Mon Jul 06, 2009

Canada.com

Privacy a concern as CRTC hears Web control debate

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.

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Related Topix: Internet Service Providers

New York Times

Growing Presence in the Courtroom: Cellphone Data as Witness

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.

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Related Topix: Queens, NY, New York, NY, New York Metro

Sun Jul 05, 2009

XtraMSN Real Estate

Germany's biggest bank hired detectives to spy on staff: report

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.

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Related Topix: Banking, Deutsche Bank AG, Financial Services

Tallahassee.com

Mary Ann Lindley: If you value privacy, you're on your own

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.

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Related Topix: Florida, University of Florida, Criminal Defense Law, Law

CIO

Opinion: You Say 'shameful Secret,' I Say 'privacy'

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

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Related Topix: Opinion

Sat Jul 04, 2009

BtoB Magazine

Highlights of proposed Canadian spam legislation

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.

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Related Topix: Email Spam, Marketing

Information Week - All Stories and Blogs

InformationWeek Analytics: Data Loss Prevention

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

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Related Topix: Knowledge Management, CIO News

Ars Technica

Behavioral advertisers discover the self-regulation gospel

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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Related Topix: Marketing

Fri Jul 03, 2009

Megite Technology News

Online advertisers launch sweeping rules over data privacy

Megite is the social news aggregrator for anyone interested in what's happening right now by intelligently uncovering the most relevant items from auto discovered news sites and weblogs.

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Related Topix: Blog News

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