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EU charter may outlaw routine spying
News Spying on electronic communications by international agencies is a serious invasion of privacy according to proposals put before the European Parliament (EP) in Strasbourg this week. If accepted, the proposal would outlaw spying across European...
[April 14, 2000, 12:23]
Digital spying under scrutiny - threat to human rights
News Spying on electronic communications by international agencies should be seen as a breach of human rights according to a five page proposal being considered by the European Parliament. If the proposal is implemented, spying by international agencies...
[April 13, 2000, 12:03]
Skype Spying Debacle
Blog Apparently this spying scandal doesn't qualify as a security problem. I've avoided posting anything about this, because there has certainly been enough said about it since it broke a week or so ago. Besides, Skype's denials obviously had no...
[October 12, 2008, 18:03]
Echelon: Government spying breeds business distrust
News European computer security experts disclose that, just as more concrete information about the activities of satellite spying system Echelon begins to emerge with reports to the European Union, businesses outside Britain are asking for increased...
[June 30, 2000, 10:38]
F-Secure attacks smartphone spying software
News Antivirus company F-Secure has criticised the security of a mobile spying application. The Finnish security company said that Retina-X Studios' Mobile Spy is "not built to be secure", although Retina-X Studios has rejected the claims.
[October 1, 2007, 16:28]
Dell calls on HP to investigate spying charges
News In legal documents, HP denied spying on Dell. Several HP executives, including Patricia Dunn, HP's former chairman, were rebuked by a congressional committee after the executives acknowledged that spying on board members, employees and journalists...
[June 4, 2007, 8:25]
New loophole makes email spying easy
News The group believes spying on others' conversations could become common using this loophole. A newly-discovered email loophole could allow for widespread snooping of other people's online messages, adding to concerns over Internet privacy.
[February 5, 2001, 12:28]
Senate won't quiz telcos about NSA spying
News A prominent Republican senator backed away on Tuesday from his pledge to question executives from telecommunications companies that have allegedly been cooperating with the government's secret wiretapping program.
[June 7, 2006, 11:00]
Spying e-card conceals Trojan
Talkback If the FBI can do it, why cant everyone else. One could argue that the FBI does it to protect the country, a husband or wife do to protect the family.
[October 9, 2003, 12:19]
Spying worms likely to proliferate
Talkback VARIETY AND COMBINATIONS The information technology is a double edge sword, which can be used for destructive as well as constructive work. Thus, the fate of many ventures depends upon the benign or vice intentions, as the case may be, of the...
[June 10, 2005, 19:26]
Skype Spying Debacle
Blog Comment Alas Mr Watson, survailance seems to be deeply ingrained. I never think that any of my communications on electronic media are private. Sad I know, but we are always being told in one way or another here in the UK that all our movements are tracked...
[October 12, 2008, 18:43]
Skype Spying Debacle
Blog Comment However, what galls me about this as much as the actual spying is that Skype prances around, squawking to any and all about how much the "love their users", and that Skype is "1005 secure", and their download page has "No Spyware" written boldly...
[October 13, 2008, 8:08]
Skype Spying Debacle
Blog Comment I hope I am wrong too. It's hard to know where you can make a stand when it comes to survailence. It doesn't seem to matter which government is in power, policy seems identical. Withholding tax is out of the question, as any kind of finacial crime...
[October 13, 2008, 11:46]
Kazaa's spying potential revealed
Talkback Hi, I dont see what thjer big problem sharing music is, ill be honest i dont share music, i dont buy it either. But, its so expensive, if these companies that produce music CDs or DVDs, lowerred there costs more people would buy it legit and you...
[December 11, 2004, 0:07]
Oracle lawsuit accuses SAP of spying
News Oracle announced on Thursday that it has filed a lawsuit against archrival SAP, alleging the software giant hacked into Oracle's customer support centre and downloaded copies of its proprietary software code.
[March 23, 2007, 7:43]
Politicians need spying too
Talkback Given the mount of corrupt politicians in the country, I want to see all their private life exposed (fiances,jobs,children,family life,friends,associates,business life,etc) jus to make sure they do not do any wrong dong.
[March 20, 2009, 12:45]
Rebel hacker accused of spying on military faces ten years in jail
Blog Authorities in Turkey are seeking a ten year jail sentence for a man who has admitted he was a hacker working for the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), and is alleged to have planted spyware on x-rated websites.
[February 3, 2009, 17:47]
HP calls spying scandal a 'wake-up call'
News Hewlett-Packard's top ethics and privacy executives on Thursday said a now infamous investigation into boardroom media leaks was a "wake-up call" that prompted a shakeup in the company's operations. The gaffe's silver lining is that a host of...
[March 2, 2007, 9:52]
HP denies spying on former employee
News In a court filing on Tuesday, Hewlett-Packard denied allegations that it pretexted a former employee with whom it is engaged in a legal dispute. In 2005, HP sued Karl Kamb, a former vice president of business development and strategy, alleging he...
[March 1, 2007, 14:17]
HP faces claims of spying on Dell
News On 31 August, 2005, his attorney sent Hunsaker, then an HP attorney, a demand that the company stop spying on him. Karl Kamb, previously HP's vice president of business development and strategy, was named as a defendant in a federal lawsuit filed...
[January 25, 2007, 7:59]
