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Email snooping code suffers 'unnecessary' delays
News The Code of Practice designed to remove confusion over new laws affecting how employers monitor company email and Internet use is being unnecessarily delayed, say lawyers. Ford cited as an example a rule in the Code of Practice that would mean...
[May 2, 2001, 13:22]
The technology behind FBI's 'Carnivore'
News The FBI's email snooping "Carnivore" -- now the centre of a fierce debate over privacy -- began life on a store shelf. It's unlikely many of the system's secrets will be made public, as the FBI tries to balance its secret program with an effort to...
[July 20, 2000, 9:09]
Pressure grows on government to scrap snooping bill
News The government claims its email snooping bill is necessary to keep law enforcers up to date with criminals using the Net but opponents argue it is an unprecedented intrusion on privacy. Firstly it questions the government's estimates of the amount...
[June 7, 2000, 8:44]
News Burst: Employers can read your email from today
News The rest of the RIP Act came into force on 2 October but the section relating to email snooping at work was delayed. Previously RIP required employers to gain consent before snooping on employees but firms complained that it was unworkable.
[October 24, 2000, 9:03]
Employers can read your email from today
News While the RIP Act came into force on 2 October, the section relating to email snooping at work was delayed. Previously RIP required employers to gain consent before snooping on employees but firms complained it was unworkable.
[October 24, 2000, 11:45]
UK workers paranoid over email surveillance
News While that suggestion would sit well with hard work purists, whole industries are thriving from people's paranoia about email snooping in the office. Sixty-one percent levelled the more serious accusation of snooping at their tech team.
[March 20, 2003, 14:45]
MailSafe
Downloads With MailSafe, you can be sure that no one snooping through or intercepting your email will be able to read it. MailSafe provides email security and privacy needs. It can protect email that they want to send but do not want anyone to be able to...
[August 12, 2009, 8:14]
New loophole makes email spying easy
News A newly-discovered email loophole could allow for widespread snooping of other people's online messages, adding to concerns over Internet privacy. The loophole lets an unscrupulous individual essentially "bug" an email sent to any email client that...
[February 5, 2001, 12:28]
iPIG Secure Access VPN Server
Downloads Using powerful 256-bit AES encryption technology, the iOpus Private Internet Gateway (iPIG) creates a secure "tunnel" that protects your inbound and outbound communications (Email, Web, IM, VOIP, calls, FTP, etc.at any Wi-Fi hotspot or wired...
[May 8, 2006, 8:00]
ISPs debate offshore email to evade RIPA
News Other organisations -- some Trade Unions, for example -- fear that Government snooping capabilities will be inadequately controlled. Several British ISPs are considering providing offshore email services in an effort to evade the government's...
[September 1, 2000, 10:38]
Free Google email service to launch 'in weeks'
News Some users might feel a little uneasy about the idea of Google effectively reading their email in search of advertising prompts, so Burns is quick to emphasise that this process will be done in software, rather than by snooping Google employees.
[April 1, 2004, 13:45]
One in five employers snoop on staff email
News One in five employers may be snooping on their staff emails without informing them or gaining their consent, according to a new report published Tuesday. The Data Protection Commission warned that organisations should only monitor email when there...
[January 17, 2001, 12:10]
RIPA and Human Rights Act conflict
News As well as legalising government snooping, RIP (Regulation of Investigatory Powers) enables an employer to legally monitor his or her staff if he/she suspects them of misusing the Internet. Businesses monitoring their employees' email and Internet...
[October 3, 2000, 12:49]
Carnivore clone goes open source
News ISPs in Britain will no doubt also be keen to take a look at this open source snooping technology after the UK government in July introduced legislation that will require in this country to also employ email surveillance measures.
[September 21, 2000, 8:57]
Google keeps up porn probe battle
Talkback The word "child pornography" is a buzzword to get the population to accept its latest snooping excursions. Even better lets short out the email monitors by everyone sending an email with all the buzzwords they can think of such as suicide bomber...
[February 20, 2006, 13:44]
Beware your boss is watching you surf
News Research company Industrial Relations Services, which canvassed 74 British organisations in its study, says the snooping is not purely to clamp down on Net abuse during work time, but also to protect companies against liability for illegal...
[May 16, 2000, 15:34]
Orange sacks forty over Internet porn
News Taylor believes the government's snooping bill RIP (Regulation of Investigatory Powers) and the Human Rights Act -- both due to become law next month -- will make it harder for employers to spy on email.
[September 1, 2000, 15:22]
Surveillance: Government plans e-surveillance
News Their main concern is the cost the government will impose on them in order to implement the snooping technology. The interception of email But the government says the current bill needs updating to allow interception of email and Internet traffic.
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
A Year Ago: Government plans e-surveillance
News Their main concern is the cost the government will impose on them in order to implement the snooping technology. The interception of email But the government says the current bill needs updating to allow interception of email and Internet traffic.
[September 27, 2000, 7:02]
Companies showcase online safety gadgets and software
News It blocks cookies, Web bugs, and dangerous JavaScript but also protects consumers from people like their boss, neighbour or co-worker" who may be snooping. Privacy companies were out in force Monday night for a mini tech fair at the University of...
[December 6, 2000, 10:42]
