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Web consortium issues privacy standard
News P3P serves as the keystone to resolving larger issues of both privacy and security on the Web. Get the latest on spy networks such as Echelon and Carnivore, as well as privacy issues for companies and individuals alike, at ZDNet UK's Privacy News...
[April 16, 2002, 16:20]
Pirate Party makes waves in Australia
News The Pirate Party, which champions issues such as intellectual-property rights, free speech and data privacy, is on its way to becoming an official party in Australia. The party has limited the issues it wants to take a stand on to only intellectual...
[September 29, 2009, 8:37]
US Report: Clinton's Web plans hang in balance after summits
News The Clinton administration has learned a lot after a series of summits on Internet privacy, safety and connectivity issues, but key questions are still being debated as officials complete a report on e-commerce and online privacy due on Clinton's...
[June 12, 1998, 9:50]
IM raises corporate trust issues
News Instant messaging is gaining a corporate following in some workplaces, but issues still remain about privacy and accountability. He sees security and privacy as issues corporates are tackling, as they go through what he calls a "soul searching...
[September 2, 2002, 8:45]
Online banks under legal scrutiny
News While most banking security and privacy issues are surrounded by an extensive legal and regulatory framework, consumers are not always protected when it comes to online banks, say experts. Privacy breaches are also covered by the data protection...
[August 2, 2000, 10:10]
Research: Data privacy a low priority for CIOs
News CIOs and internal auditors don't feel IT fraud and data-privacy issues pose a serious threat to their business, despite a spate of high-profile data losses and privacy breaches. Nearly two-thirds (65 percent) of internal audit chiefs surveyed by...
[June 30, 2008, 8:43]
Security issue will be fixed - experts
News Throughout the dot-com boom to bust, security and privacy issues have continued to be underestimated in terms of importance to e-business. According to Couchman, much of this can be attributed to the fact that "businesses have continued to...
[November 8, 2001, 10:04]
Privacy expert resigns to focus on security
News Well-known privacy watchdog Richard Smith said Wednesday that he is leaving his post at the Privacy Foundation to research security issues following the September 11 attacks, one sign of the country's shifting focus from protecting privacy to...
[November 1, 2001, 12:09]
Media blamed for consumer online fears
News The report identifies media and government obsession with privacy issues and blames them for confusing the public who have difficulty, says the report, separating security from privacy concerns. The government and the media are widely blamed for...
[August 18, 1999, 10:49]
European Commission keeping an eye on RFID
News She said that instead of issuing regulations, the commission plans to develop a set of guidelines — a "soft law", by Santucci's characterisation — by year's end to lay out its expectations on issues like privacy and security.
[April 3, 2007, 9:17]
BT to begin third Phorm trial
News Phorm's technology, which BT will use under the brand of 'Webwise', has attracted protests from peers, politicians, technologists and thinktanks, who have expressed concerns over legal and privacy issues.
[September 29, 2008, 12:49]
Court rules for Web users in privacy case
News Get the latest on spy networks such as Echelon and Carnivore, as well as privacy issues for companies and individuals alike, at ZDNet UK's Privacy News Section. In a ruling that marks a victory for privacy proponents, a federal appeals panel is...
[May 13, 2003, 12:26]
Google launches Web History tool
News The launch is part of a wider Google personalised-search initiative that the company's privacy counsel, Peter Fleischer, has admitted raises privacy issues. Writing earlier this year in the Financial Times, Fleischer said: "Personalised search does...
[August 3, 2007, 10:26]
RFID tag printer on the way from IBM
News Big Blue also launched a consulting service, aimed at helping companies that are deploying RFID to better understand customer privacy issues. The consultants are primarily based at IBM's headquarters in the US, "where the focus on privacy issues is...
[June 20, 2005, 11:15]
US Report: Will Clinton replace Internet adviser?
News Ira did a lot of important work on internet issues, but more work remains to be done, particularly on privacy and encryption," said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC).
[November 10, 1998, 10:11]
Facebook denies mass hijack was down to flaw
News A group called Control Your Info had been taking control of Facebook user groups in an effort to draw attention to privacy issues. It then joined 289 of those groups, and changed the picture, name and description of the group, to draw attention to...
[November 11, 2009, 15:39]
Gerstner tells industry to take responsibility
News The IBM chief's call to action focused on three issues -- privacy, security and digital trade policy. In the privacy arena, Gerstner particularly focused on a cooperative attitude among government, industry and public policy advocates within the...
[March 7, 2000, 12:20]
Political paradox: Technology is everywhere, except in voters' hearts
News While tech execs fret over online privacy, Internet content controls, and e-commerce taxes, to take just a few examples, none of the candidates interviewed said tech issues had even been mentioned to them as priorities by voters - not even in...
[October 20, 1998, 6:03]
Information commissioner leaves post empty
News Get the latest on spy networks such as Echelon and Carnivore, as well as privacy issues for companies and individuals alike, at ZDNet UK's Privacy News Section. Information commissioner Elizabeth France, a champion of privacy rights in the UK and...
[October 8, 2002, 16:21]
Privacy tsar: Data protection should be 'way of life'
News Get the latest on spy networks such as Echelon and Carnivore, as well as privacy issues for companies and individuals alike, at ZDNet UK's Privacy News Section. Breaking the government's 'culture of secrecy' while protecting the privacy of UK...
[January 8, 2003, 9:52]
