A hard lesson in privacy
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The importance of keeping personal matters personal Comment Sometimes I hear a story that is simply breathtaking in its stupidity and potential for disaster. For your delectation, horror, and amazement, here is one relayed to me by a good friend a few days ago.â¦
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Researchers expose privacy problems with the iPod Nano and Nike running aid.
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By Anonymous  WAN lessons learned  Plus: How to hide your online footprints.
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If you use shared or public computers, you have a new privacy risk to consider: Google Desktop Search.
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The Hewlett-Packard scandal revealed much about corporate spying. But boardrooms are still defining the ethical boundaries.
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A researcher says the techniques to stay anonymous online can be thwarted through flaws in the systems.
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Some years ago, I got a job doing network support for the District Attorneyâs office in a large city that shall remain nameless. When I arrived, the network was a mess! Malware was rampant, Internet and WAN connections were saturated, and users were constantly complaining about slow computers and network performance. Even so, my attempts to enforce a mindful security policy were met with fierce resistance. The attitude among the legal staff was, âThis is my computer and my network; youâre just a computer janitor.â
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Restrictive hardware and convoluted rights management crimp consumer choices.
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New Web ads respond to your activities--and this has privacy advocates worried.
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It takes effort and intelligence to keep personal information out of the hands of people and governments bent on misusing the data.
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Be afraid: There's no such thing as a secure network.
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Many people now find sense of community more important than privacy.
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That plastic card, the one with the lousy photo that's jammed into your wallet or purse, isn't just a license to drive. It's the green light to buy a drink, the ticket to federal benefits, the must-have document to get aboard airplanes. Now it's also the flash point for an argument about how best to balance America's security needs with worries that personal privacy could be swept away.
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While it's easy to go undercover online, remaining anonymous is no sure bet. These virtual celebrities were ''outed'' on the Web.
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Grafting media manipulation onto techno-terror, the latest âDie Hardâ expertly captures a current fear: What if weâre disconnected from our information overload?
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Country with world's biggest network of surveillance cameras has worst record for the protection of privacy
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Malware, carelessness, data leaks--whether internal or external threats, there's too many to count.