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Zero-knowledge adds privacy tool
News Security software maker Zero-Knowledge Systems on Tuesday introduced a Web-based tool that lets online businesses evaluate their digital privacy policies. The new P3P tool comes at a time when companies are increasingly challenged by the complexity...
[March 6, 2002, 9:00]
1st Privacy Tool for Windows
Downloads 1st Privacy Tool is a powerful security utility that allows you to restrict access to Windows important resources. You can define several time intervals and time durations to manage users working time very easy.st Privacy Tool supports Internet...
[September 29, 2008, 10:40]
Encryption tool gives privacy buffs new image
News Familiar, dramatic themes of the privacy debate were also wheeled out as others pointed out that the tool could give violent organisations a means to operate covertly. The program has been received cautiously by online privacy enthusiasts.
[July 8, 2002, 8:32]
Developers launch anti-Phorm 'noise' tool
News An electronic privacy advocacy group has launched a tool they claim will inundate ad-serving technology from Phorm with electronic "noise". The privacy group added that, running in "silent mode", AntiPhormLite does not access any content on the web...
[May 19, 2008, 17:55]
Planning the future of privacy at Microsoft
News The controversy stemmed from Microsoft's failure to make the proper privacy disclosures with its Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications tool. He's working to make long privacy policies a part of history and helping to make Windows Vista the most...
[July 3, 2006, 12:10]
Analysing Countermeasures Against Privacy-Invasive Software
White Papers User privacy is widely affected by the occurrence of Privacy-Invasive Software (PIS) on the Internet. The authors use a computer forensic tool to evaluate an anti-spyware tool, with respect to found PIS over a four years period.
[July 6, 2007, 1:00]
FBI dumps Carnivore - but in name only
News The name change is the latest development in the controversy surrounding the surveillance tool, which came under public scrutiny last summer when privacy advocates began to decry it. A spokesman for the FBI denied that the name change stemmed from...
[February 12, 2001, 9:01]
Google unveils desktop search
News There will be privacy concerns because the tool's so close to you. Google on Thursday unveiled its first-generation desktop application for searching through personal files on the PC and through a person's Web history, a move that could shake up...
[October 14, 2004, 15:40]
Ten free security utilities you should be using review
Reviews File Shredder is a must-have privacy tool that wipes/destroys documents beyond recovery. This free system optimisation and privacy tool can be used to remove unused files from your system — allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable...
[July 31, 2007, 13:06]
Googling Security review
Reviews Using Google as an attack tool is a vastly different type of threat than privacy advocates typically talk about. Besides the above risks, Conti looks at other ways Google can — wittingly or unwittingly, directly or indirectly — breach our privacy.
[December 12, 2008, 9:29]
Civil rights group decries face-recognition tools
News They have also warned that the technology's widespread adoption could come at the cost of civilian privacy. That the system is blind to race is a privacy enhancing measure. Security and privacy expert Richard Smith said the report carries a...
[January 4, 2002, 9:23]
Google wins source-code ruling in Viacom lawsuit
News Google has scored a legal victory in keeping its search source code secret from Viacom, but YouTube users have not been so fortunate as regards their privacy. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) called the ruling a threat to YouTube users...
[July 3, 2008, 15:07]
Feds try to take logs from Nmap creator
News The security expert added that he would like to protect his privacy when dealing with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Protecting your privacy is important to me, but Nmap users should be savvy enough to know that all of your network activity...
[November 26, 2004, 16:10]
Hollywood homes in on student swappers
News Privacy vs.policy According to its technical summary, ACNS does not invade privacy. We seek to balance our responsibilities to respect copyrights and our responsibilities for due process and student privacy.
[April 19, 2004, 14:45]
Be aware of wireless threats
News This is one more reason to teach users that they can't expect privacy while using a public network. When you leave your home or corporate network and connect to an open wireless network, your expectation of privacy and security should drop...
[October 21, 2005, 16:15]
Internet data-retention law comes into force
News Privacy campaigner Simon Davies, director of Privacy International, told ZDNet UK on Monday that data preservation, in which ISPs and telcos retain the data of specific suspects rather than of all citizens, would have been "less privacy intrusive...
[April 6, 2009, 16:37]
CeBIT 98: Gerstner Keynote P3 - Responsibility
News Some have been around forever, like privacy. Finally, privacy. How can we continue to strike the right balance between respect for individual privacy and the benefits, on the other hand, of information flow in a connected world?
[March 19, 1998, 16:38]
Google Street View comes to the UK
News As Street View has been rolled out in various countries, some have raised privacy concerns over the idea of having houses and, in some cases, individuals who had been caught on camera, readily viewable on the web.
[March 19, 2009, 12:41]
Privacy groups to take on Microsoft?
News In a letter to Microsoft managers Tuesday, Junkbuster.com President Jason Catlett said a formal complaint over privacy concerns with Microsoft's statements regarding two identifiers in Windows and its applications remained an "option.
[March 10, 1999, 9:42]
Privacy experts rip IE cookie cutter
News Microsoft's plan to add privacy technology to its new browser is getting mixed reviews from privacy experts, who say the proposal is a good first step but still doesn't go far enough in protecting consumers from snooping companies.
[March 23, 2001, 8:44]
