Ensuring privacy in the broadband era
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I WAS in London two weeks before the latest terror plot engulfed the city. Part of the credit for officials' rapid response goes to London being a 21st-century surveillance society. While I took tourist photographs, I was myself photographed over and over in a city that has the most surveillance cameras per capita of any in the world. Discreet and ...
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New Web ads respond to your activities--and this has privacy advocates worried.
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A new standard aims to help users pass information between Web services without sharing full access to their identities.
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By Vaisman, Fima  Fiber cabling is best for IP security networks, but connectivity may not always be possible. Digital video surveillance is becoming a distributed IP network application.
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Letters: On the need for a code of behavior for the Internet.
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Will it become redundant in the face of encryption and protection on endpoints in an open network?
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Also: Privacy: The problem that won't go away. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Analysis No delay in EC anti-trust compliance
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New online services could make you an even more inviting target for privacy attacks. Here's how.
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The dusty shelves of your local library are going high-tech with tagging chips. Civil liberties groups warn of a privacy nightmare.
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This paper looks at the evolution of firewall technology towards Deep Packet Inspection, and then discusses some of the security issues with this evolving technology.
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Here's how nontechnical users can secure their own instant-messaging conversations such that an attacker is unable to listen in (be it the government or a nosy neighbor).
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Cutting-edge data mining and other intelligence tools could redefine privacy as we know it. A News.com special report.
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Tips for keeping your Web activities secret, or as secret as the Internet allows.
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Modella intraprende azione legale per violazione privacy
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On Saturday, a London-based privacy advocacy group, Privacy International, released the preliminary results of a six-month survey of Internet privacy practices. The organization evaluated 23 Internet companies on several criteria, and assigned each company a color-coded privacy assessment, ranging from green (&quot;privacy-friendly and privacy enhancing&quot;) to black (&quot;comprehensive consumer surveillance & entrenched hostility to privacy&quot;).
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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