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Smutty banker awarded compensation
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. A UK banker who was sacked by Lehman Brothers for sending pornographic emails has won...
[December 12, 2002, 15:28]
Nielsen begins monitoring TiVo usage
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. The process is anonymous, but privacy groups have expressed concern about what DVR...
[August 6, 2002, 16:06]
Inland Revenue to take measures against tax record snooping
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. According to the privacy statement posted on its Web site, the Revenue can only...
[January 17, 2003, 13:20]
Civil liberties group warns of EU surveillance proposal
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. Telecoms firms and Internet service providers across Europe will be forced to retain...
[May 9, 2002, 14:20]
UK Government suffers data retention blow
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. Europe's data protection commissioners have dealt a blow to the UK government's plans...
[September 17, 2002, 12:30]
Pentagon database to spy on Americans
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. Nearly 200 corporations and universities submitted proposals to the Defence Advanced...
[February 28, 2003, 11:36]
AIM+ 'spyware' component to be removed
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. The recent decision comes after some users of Big-O Software's AIM+ program -- which...
[June 7, 2002, 13:44]
Location, location, location: Intel puts users on the map
News Although the technical side of this part of LAC is not particularly hard, the privacy issues are of much greater concern. Implications for privacy At the Spring Intel Developer Forum in San Jose, California this week, Intel's R&D labs described the...
[February 21, 2003, 8:59]
Whois database 'contributes to identity theft'
News At its meeting this week in Carthage, Tunisia, ICANN is scheduled to assemble on Wednesday to discuss "address accuracy and privacy issues, including data collection and verification measures, complaint procedures and investigatory methods for...
[November 6, 2003, 12:00]
Pair indicted in trade-secret theft
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. A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted two men on criminal charges of stealing...
[December 5, 2002, 15:44]
Old hard drives yield data bonanza
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. Their findings, titled "Remembrance of Data Passed: A Study of Disk Sanitation", are...
[January 16, 2003, 8:55]
Gartner warns of trap in Vista metadata
News With Microsoft's increased emphasis on security and privacy, the issues in Windows Vista should have been addressed deep within the OS during development," according to the Gartner report. Microsoft is concerned about user privacy and security...
[December 23, 2005, 8:10]
Staff monitoring must be transparent
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. But he emphasises the key points are that employees be made aware of the monitoring...
[June 11, 2003, 10:49]
US urges EU to lead the way in biometric IDs
News The issue of privacy was also raised, in light of a recent US-EU spat over airlines and data they could transfer about their transatlantic passengers, with Ridge saying that he understood the continent's privacy issues, saying their would be the...
[October 30, 2003, 16:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The story itself is a good 'un, with an RFID proponent loftily dismissing privacy issues as being a lack of understanding on the part of the consumers, while a privacy group he dismisses takes the RFID man to task for being a sinister bunny.
[October 29, 2004, 18:29]
Settlement means sweeping changes to Passport
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. As part of the settlement agreement, Microsoft has changed its privacy statements to...
[August 9, 2002, 7:50]
Longhorn will feature 'secure' components
News Critics maintain that the fourth feature of Microsoft's trusted PC plan, remote attestation, could lead to major privacy issues. But the recent qualifications made by the project team indicate that Microsoft still hasn't solved key design issues...
[May 6, 2004, 8:40]
US govt to get early warning of Net attacks
News It warrants closer examination, and more details need to be disclosed so a full assessment of the legal and privacy issues that may be raised can be made," Sobel said. David Sobel, general counsel of the Electronic Privacy Information Centre, said...
[August 1, 2003, 10:40]
Additional details on data accuracy
Talkback Today, the biggest culprits of these error rates come down to Antivirus products clearing well known analytics cookies, Firewalls blocking the page tagging scripts, and privacy setting in browsers. More an more browswers are starting to block first...
[November 19, 2009, 8:17]
It's a fair cop as Police admits 'spam attack'
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. The Cambridgeshire Police Authority has held up its hands to a major email blunder...
[December 6, 2002, 17:03]
