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Experts: Press Threatened By Cybersnooping
News New government surveillance powers pose a grave threat to the freedom of the press, according to privacy experts, who will hold a forum next month to highlight the dangers to the press of new legislation.
[October 5, 2000, 14:29]
Digital Signatures Pose Security Risk, Says Expert
News A leading technology expert has warned that digital signatures, an increasingly prevalent Internet security technology, could hail a future devoid of privacy. Are digital signatures a valuable way of ensuring Net security, or the next step towards...
[September 26, 2000, 11:45]
Google Homepage Link Mollifies Privacy Campaigners
News Epic had joined with the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse and the World Privacy Forum in leading the effort to press Google to make the change. Pam Dixon, executive director of the World Privacy Forum, also welcomed Google's decision.
[July 7, 2008, 11:58]
Freedom Browser For Linux Due November
News Also speaking at the forum, chief privacy officer with Zero Knowledge Stephanie Perrin outlined why Internet users should be concerned about government snooping. The Freedom browser allows Internet users to avoid Internet tracing technologies by...
[September 25, 2000, 15:15]
Encryption Device Offers Phone Privacy
News California-based Starium will take the wraps off its much anticipated low-cost phone encryption device at the Surveillance by Design Forum, organised by London civil liberty group Privacy International.
[September 20, 2000, 10:53]
Ex-NSA Expert Warns Of Concealed Backdoors
News Speaking to privacy groups as well as cryptography and security experts at the International Forum on Surveillance by Design at the London School of Economics, Madsen warned that this is an area of growing interest for security services such as...
[September 25, 2000, 10:51]
AOL Axes Staff Over Privacy Breach
News The World Privacy Forum also filed an FTC complaint against AOL last week, including an allegation that AOL released user search data in 2004. Pam Dixon, executive director of the World Privacy Forum, said the FTC should investigate whether AOL...
[August 22, 2006, 8:40]
AIM+ 'spyware' Component To Be Removed
News The recent decision comes after some users of Big-O Software's AIM+ program -- which adds chat logging, ad removal and other features to AIM -- complained that the program violated their privacy by sending information about their online identity...
[June 7, 2002, 13:44]
IDF: Enterprise Wireless Networks Secure At Last?
News Walker was one of the first to uncover the problems in 802.11's Wire Equivalent Privacy (WEP) and thereby technical editor of the TGi working group. Although everyone worries about privacy and data security," said Walker, "the bigger threat is...
[September 12, 2002, 8:50]
Internet Free Speech Threatened By Data Protection Laws
News According to head of legal affairs at Interactive Investor Anil Raval there is difficult balance to be struck between privacy and the law. Interactive Investor complies with the data protection act and respects the privacy of registered users," he...
[June 13, 2000, 17:05]
United Users Should Call Security Tune
Leader In some circumstances this has been because they've misread the market or misled themselves: Microsoft assured the trusted computing community in 2001 that Passport would be a great success because "the three things consumers want most from the...
[January 17, 2005, 13:30]
Experts Divided Over Cyber-terrorist Threat
News And yes, we are giving up more of our privacy [as a result]. Sun's Diffie questioned this loss of privacy, asking: "Are we going to have to surrender everything to internet policing methods, or can we find systems barrier methods which will give...
[April 9, 2008, 11:19]
News Roundup: Attack On America
News Tuesday 18th September The balance shifts in the ongoing tug of war between privacy rights and national security as last Tuesday's attacks in New York and Washington lend weight to calls for government eavesdropping to be stepped up
[September 12, 2001, 13:10]
Privacy Concerns Continue To Grow
News Technologists, free-speech experts and general hangers-on are grappling with that question and others at the Computers Freedom & Privacy conference in San Francisco this week. The homeland security budget is pork for the IT industry," said Andrew...
[April 19, 2002, 12:52]
Privacy In The UK: Where Next?
News Consultation on privacy promised for new year 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.
[December 19, 2002, 14:24]
Privacy Groups Take Efforts To European Level
News Ten European privacy and civil rights groups, including two from Britain, have joined forces to create an international body for lobbying at a European level. The move comes as concerns grow over erosion of data privacy by the UK's Regulation of...
[June 13, 2002, 16:10]
Privacy Advocates Make Plea To Echelon Committee
News Privacy organisation Cyber-Rights and Cyber-Liberties has submitted its objections to Internet surveillance ahead of a meeting in the European Parliament today. It is also concerned that the Cyber Crime Convention is breaking privacy rules.
[March 22, 2001, 7:15]
IBM's New Chips Slash Power Consumption
News In 1999, privacy groups protested when Intel included a serial number on the Pentium III. Although the privacy risks were remote, consumer protests prompted the company to remove the feature. Power consumption has become an obsession for...
[October 12, 2001, 9:25]
Tech Giants Meet To Combat Spam
News This is a place where emailers, Internet service providers, privacy and consumer advocates, and filtering software companies are coming to look at spam from a broad perspective," said Schiavone, whose group has developed a trusted email sender...
[March 17, 2003, 7:55]
Privacy Experts Slam Snooping Code Of Practice
News Privacy experts have slammed the Home Office's draft Code of Practice for accessing communications data as a nebulous attempt to justify the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA). The Code of Practice accepts that "proportionality is a...
[August 15, 2001, 16:40]
