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Is TiVo Watching You?
News On Monday, the Privacy Foundation released a report accusing digital video recording company TiVo of misleading subscribers. A TiVo representative responded by saying that the company does collect information about what its subscribers are viewing...
[March 27, 2001, 9:00]
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]
Privacy Group Shines Light On Web Bugs
News The Privacy Foundation released free software on Thursday that helps consumers detect when a site or email contains a Web bug -- a barely visible tracking tag used mainly by marketers to monitor consumer habits online.
[June 8, 2001, 11:52]
Email Wiretaps Made Easy
News US privacy organisation the Privacy Foundation (www.privacyfoundation.org) said Monday it has uncovered a vulnerability in email software that displays HTML content in messages -- programs such as Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora and...
[February 5, 2001, 15:47]
No Easy Way To Exterminate 'Web Bugs'
News The benefits of the feature outweigh the tracking risks," said Richard Smith, chief technology officer for the Privacy Foundation in Denver. Consumers worried about privacy won't get a good solution to Internet "Web bugs" any time soon, privacy and...
[September 1, 2000, 8:37]
New Loophole Makes Email Spying Easy
News The method, uncovered by US group the Privacy Foundation, requires only a few lines of JavaScript to be inserted into an email message. That means, for example, that someone could send a message to a colleague, and if the message is forwarded to...
[February 5, 2001, 12:28]
Linux@Work: Wise Up To Free Software
News Robert Chassel of the Free Software Foundation also told business representatives that their company's future privacy and security could depend on adopting free software. Challenged, Chassel sought to allay concerns that software developed freely...
[May 17, 2000, 13:57]
Firms Find More Reasons To Monitor Workers
News MailGear is the number two such software, according to the Privacy Foundation's study. I couldn't get over how cheap this stuff is," said Andrew Schulman, chief researcher at the Privacy Foundation's workplace study group.
[July 10, 2001, 12:21]
Zimmerman Joins UK Think Tank
News One of the founding fathers of modern cryptography, Phil Zimmermann -- who created PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) and thus introduced a generation of computer users to email encryption -- has joined the advisory council of the Foundation for...
[September 16, 2002, 10:31]
Whois Database 'contributes To Identity Theft'
News The letter has been signed by organisations from 21 countries including the American Library Association, the UK's Foundation for Information Policy Research, the Consumer Federation of America, the Australian Privacy Foundation and the Fédération...
[November 6, 2003, 12:00]
Privacy Activists Call For Rules On RFID
News Other witnesses, including a representative from the consumer privacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation and a researcher from University of California at Los Angeles, also called for limits on the use of RFID and a technology assessment by...
[August 19, 2003, 9:30]
Big Brother Awards Nominees Plumb New Depths
News The nominees for this year's Big Brother Awards, which recognise villains of privacy in the Internet age, have sunk to new depths, according to the judges. Simon Davies, director of Privacy International, the founding organisation, said that during...
[February 25, 2002, 11:13]
HP's Fiorina Backs Net Regulation
News Microsoft, along with American Express, AT&T, Citigroup and Prudential Insurance, all have hired privacy officers whose job it is to protect the data collected online. The woman at the helm of one of the computer industry's oldest citizens wants...
[August 23, 2000, 14:57]
Google Pushes On With Free Wi-Fi
News The Electronic Frontier Foundation released a report that found that among the original six proposals from bidders, the Google-EarthLink pitch was among the worst in addressing privacy concerns. As far as privacy concerns go, the service will...
[June 8, 2006, 8:55]
Open Rights And Digital Freedom
News At the moment we have the right to privacy under the Constitution of Human Rights. Because this isn't just about the geeks online, this is about issues such as e-voting and our right to privacy. However the downside is this can open the gateway for...
[September 12, 2005, 17:20]
Privacy Groups Take Efforts To European Level
News In the UK, the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) and Privacy International will work with EDRi. Ten European privacy and civil rights groups, including two from Britain, have joined forces to create an international body for...
[June 13, 2002, 16:10]
Privacy Concerns Over Google Desktop 3
News The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) said on Thursday that a feature added to the latest version of Google Desktop has serious privacy implications. But the EFF claimed this feature "greatly increases the risk to consumer privacy" due to US...
[February 10, 2006, 17:15]
Privacy Concerns Continue To Grow
News The homeland security budget is pork for the IT industry," said Andrew Schulman, chief researcher of the Privacy Foundation. Technologists, free-speech experts and general hangers-on are grappling with that question and others at the Computers...
[April 19, 2002, 12:52]
Privacy Advocates Take Aim At Windows XP
News Microsoft wants to be a gateway to the Internet over the long haul -- the company that holds all of consumers' personal information," said Richard Smith, chief technology officer of The Privacy Foundation.
[July 26, 2001, 10:28]
Privacy Watchdogs Mull Engage's Future
News The concern here is that Engage will attempt to leave the media business and instead focus only on selling ad serving software," said Richard Smith, chief technology officer for the Privacy Foundation.
[August 10, 2001, 9:42]
