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Data retention: Who's watching you?
News Who's watching you? Numerous government agencies are already requesting communications data from ISPs, even though the relevant parts from two laws designed to regulate the practice have yet to come into force.
[December 13, 2002, 16:03]
Surveillance: How your boss is watching you
News The Compartmented Node Workstation (CDW) is basically a foolproof UNIX tool for watching everything on a network," says Johnston-Bryden. A spate of sacked-for-surfing cases, where employees have been dismissed for overzealous Web surfing, for email...
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
Cable elite watching AOL-Time Warner progress
News But federal regulators are scrutinising the proposed merger, and cable executives are watching the combination closely for clues to the regulatory climate and the future of their industry. The proposed merger between America Online and Time Warner...
[November 30, 2000, 15:31]
Aurora Watching demo
Downloads A closer look at the area reveals a military complex containing laboratories built for unknown purposes, under the control of genius DNA scientist Jacek Parecki.The action of Aurora Watching takes place in the Arctic.
[October 18, 2005, 8:51]
Is TiVo watching you?
News You're watching TV, but is someone watching you? On Monday, the Privacy Foundation released a report accusing digital video recording company TiVo of misleading subscribers. The Denver-based nonprofit group claims that TiVo's service can gather...
[March 27, 2001, 9:00]
Jane Wakefield: Big Brother is watching you
News To me the programme already seemed out of date and somewhat stale, shattering the myth that we were watching real-time action on those 1984 Big Brother style cameras. Will we be watching TV via the Net or the Net via our TV?
[August 21, 2000, 7:00]
Windows Media: Watching you watching DVD
News Who's watching you? Microsoft on Wednesday amended the privacy policy for its Windows Media Player after a noted computer security expert warned that the software keeps track of the DVD titles people watch.
[February 21, 2002, 12:06]
Big Bill is watching your posts
News Ever get the feeling your Usenet email list is being watched? By Microsoft? If so, consider yourself right. Thanks to the expertise of sociologist Marc Smith, Microsoft is keeping a close eye on newsgroups and other email lists, which it has...
[August 19, 2003, 15:25]
News Schmooze: They're watching you...
News The European Parliament has finally finished its investigation into Echelon, and hold the front page! It admits the international satellite interception network exists, they're listening to our every word, and they're probably controlled by blood...
[May 25, 2001, 16:29]
Wireless data mining is watching you
News Data mining company DigiMine introduced a service on Monday to track the behaviour of people who surf the Web from wireless devices, an innovation experts say could result in more targeted advertisements -- or an overdose of annoying marketing...
[June 19, 2001, 8:56]
Biometrics: Who's Watching You
White Papers Among the many reactions to the September 11 tragedy has been a renewed attention to biometrics. The federal government has led the way with its new concern about border control. Other proposals include the use of biometrics with ID cards and in...
[December 16, 2004, 23:00]
RealNetworks may be watching you
News Online multimedia company RealNetworks has been caught out monitoring users' habits by employing its RealJukebox software. RealJukebox monitors the user listening habits and some other activities and reports the information and the user's identity...
[November 2, 1999, 8:16]
"Like watching a child eating a bug for money"
Talkback Clever FUD neatly explained by Jeremy Allison on his departure from Novell. For example see http://tinyurl.com/2zhkal News such as this proves Novell is no good for Open Source. Anybody who tells you any different either doesn't know what they're...
[March 14, 2007, 14:59]
Your phone's watching you
Blog I have to give it to Cisco. It does find every feasible application under the sun to run on an IP phone. I suppose any application could run on an IP-enabled endpoint, given enough processing power and a big enough display.
[January 16, 2007, 16:24]
Is your email watching you?
News Who's watching you? Web sites have long planted bits of code called "cookies" on consumers' hard drives to tailor Internet pages for returning visitors and better target ads. Now, enhanced messages that share the look and feel of Web pages are...
[April 5, 2002, 10:19]
Who's watching you online?
News Two weeks, two arrests. By any measure, law enforcement has been doing well in their pursuit of cyber criminals -- first nabbing the alleged writer of the Melissa virus and then, on Thursday, catching the man thought to be responsible for writing a...
[April 19, 1999, 14:04]
Interactive TV: It's watching you
News Privacy advocates warned consumers Tuesday of burgeoning dangers posed by the interactive TV industry, where companies are planning to collect massive amounts of personal data. According to a report released Tuesday from the nonprofit Center for...
[June 27, 2001, 11:46]
Napster to EMusic: We're watching you!
News Napster will be monitoring just what its competitor EMusic is doing with its new "acoustic fingerprint technology", which the company unleashed this week to stop Napster users from swapping its songs, Napster chief executive Hank Barry said Thursday.
[November 24, 2000, 7:56]
Cisco wants to be watching you
News Cisco is getting into the security surveillance market with the acquisition of a small company called SyPixx Networks. The networking giant is paying $51m (£29m) in cash and options for SyPixx, which has developed software and hardware products...
[March 7, 2006, 9:15]
Hackers watching Big Brother
News ZDNet UK News has learnt that hackers are on a list of suspected reasons behind disruption to Channel 4's Big Brother Web site. A source says Intel suspects a "denial of access" hacking attack on the Big Brother Web site although it is reluctant to...
[July 19, 2000, 15:53]
