Privacy News

A company can be liable for violating its employees' privacy rights when it looks at the content of their text messages, even when the text-messaging devices were provided by the company, held the Ninth Circuit ...

A "digital divide" exists in Canada between young people who see information posted online as private and older people who see it differently, according to a study released Thursday at a privacy conference in Toronto.

By EDWARD WASSERMANA curious, slow-motion momentum is building for new rules on online privacy.

Privacy advocates are starting to sound the alarm over a feature in Google's Chrome that sends anything typed in the browser's Omnibox back to Google.

Nearly half of Californians polled recently--44 percent--said they never shop online, and another 32 percent said they do so only rarely.

Google Inc.'s new Web browser, called Chrome, does much of what a browser needs to do these days: It presents a sleek appearance, groups pages into easy-to-manage "tabs" and offers several ways for people to control their Internet privacy settings.

Llano Independent School District in Texas has signed on with security provider Cymphonix to deploy appliance-based network filtering and management district-wide. According to the district, it had been suffering from an inability to combat anonymous proxy usage and was also unable to identify which users were doing what.

It is time once again to dispel any myths that your personal activities are completely safe from monitoring by your employer. While many people are focusing on the privacy of their identity, social security number and credit card numbers, your privacy rights are very limited when it comes to your employer’s interests. As you will see, many people wrongly assume that their communications between friends cannot be monitored by their employers.

I have recently posted on SSRN the article that ate my summer, The Rise and Fall of Invasive ISP Surveillance .

Online privacy scored a small victory this week as the CEO for controversial net eavesdropping firm NebuAD resigned just months after Congress successfully scared the country's ISPs into abandoning dreams of ...

Google Inc.'s new Web browser, called Chrome, does much of what a browser needs to do these days: It presents a sleek appearance, groups pages into easy-to-manage "tabs" and offers several ways for people to ...

It sounded like a winning proposition - free money - for Internet access providers.

"The privacy option in this beta is mainly cosmetic. For a forensic investigator, retrieving the browsing history should be regarded as peanuts," said Christian Prickaerts, forensic IT expert with Fox IT.

If you think someone is watching you, you're probably right. However according to psychiatrists who say that our surveillance and reality TV society is spawning a new kind of psychosis, you might be crazy too. It's called the Truman Show delusion.

Privacy has become a big issue in contemporary jurisprudence. The "right to privacy" is enshrined in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, and guaranteed by Article 8 of the European Convention on ...

Microsoft's latest internet browser includes a piece of software that allows internet users to hide the audit trail of websites they have visited.

In the latest of many recent data security breaches in Britain, a computer was sold on eBay containing personal details of a million bank customers.

STOLEN IDENTITIES: Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Wong Chin-chu said all parties should work together to pass an amendment that would increase prison terms STAFF WRITER, WITH CNA Friday, Aug 29, 2008, ...

' Privacy has become a big issue in contemporary jurisprudence. The "right to privacy" is enshrined in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, and guaranteed by Article 8 of the European Convention on ...

Main Category: IT / Internet / E-mail Also Included In: Public Health ; Primary Care / General Practice Article Date: 27 Aug 2008 - 10:00 PDT The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act notification ...