Privacy

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Verio to shut off controversial Web site - Network World
04/30/07
Privacy advocates are concerned that a move by Verio to stop hosting a controversial Web site points to a growing control of the Web by big business and governments.

INFOSEC - UK reviews information handling, security - Network World
04/25/07
An independent reviewer will release a report next month analyzing how U.K. government agencies manage and protect information, a key issue as the U.K. government looks at ways to broaden how different agencies exchange data.

EU police data-sharing plan draws criticism - Network World
04/19/07
Plans by several European Union members states to establish a system for sharing police data have drawn criticism from the region's data-protection watchdog.

Sensor-based networks - Network World
04/18/07
Another big area that's ready to take off is sensor-based networking, Johna Till Johnson says.

How to avoid falling into the phishing hole - Network World
04/10/07
You never can defend yourself too much while online.

Fired engineer airs Wal-Mart security practices - Network World
04/09/07
A former security engineer who was fired by Wal-Mart has disclosed what he says are broad-based surveillance operations by the retailing giant to monitor employee activities.

Privacy advocate targets U.S. state Web site - Network World
04/06/07
A privacy advocate Friday threatened to publicly post on her Web site the names of prominent individuals in Massachusetts whose Social Security numbers and other personal data she was able to pull from public records posted on the commonwealth ...

FBI, retailers to share crime data - Network World
04/06/07
Two retail trade groups are linking hands with U.S. federal law enforcement officials to create a database designed to help fight retail crime.

A blow against "pretexting" .. albeit too late for HP - Network World
04/06/07
Had regulators taken this action a couple of years ago there's a good chance the HP spy scandal never would have happened.

Q&A: Making life a little harder for ID thieves - Network World
04/05/07
If Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin finds himself in the news this week -- and he does -- because of concerns that his office's Web site is exposing Social Security numbers and other personal information online, he can thank -- or blame ...

Online banking users value security before convenience - Network World
04/05/07
Nine out of 10 consumers are prepared to sacrifice convenience in favor of stronger security to protect online bank accounts, research has found.

US FCC strengthens rules against pretexting - Network World
04/02/07
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has prohibited telephone and mobile phone carriers from releasing customer records over the phone without a password in an effort to protect against the practice of pretexting.

AirDefense protects WEP encryption on embedded wireless devices - Network World
04/02/07
New software from AirDefense is designed to protect a widely used but flawed wireless LAN encryption protocol.

State ends Web access to documents amid privacy issues - Network World
03/30/07
The Colorado Secretary of State's business division shut down online access to certain documents on its Web site after being notified by a privacy advocate that the site had been posting potentially thousands of documents with Social Security numbers ...

Study: American Express trusted most for privacy - Network World
03/28/07
For the second straight year, American Express is the top-rated company in the U.S. for privacy based on responses from more than 7,000 participants in an online survey conducted by Ponemon Institute, an Elk Rapids, Mich. privacy think tank.

U.S. state cuts record access with Social Security digits - Network World
03/27/07
Three years after it first made available certain documents containing Social Security numbers and other sensitive data on its Web site, the California Secretary of State's office last week finally shut down online access to the records because of ...

Survey: E-health records don't have to threaten privacy - Network World
03/26/07
Electronic health records can be recorded and shared without jeopardizing privacy, according to a Harris Interactive survey of 2,337 adults that was released Monday.

Google: Looking good by doing less evil - Network World
03/20/07
Google says it is going to reduce the length of time it keeps personally identifiable information about users from infinite to merely obscene. There are some positives in this announcement but it mostly emphasizes how bad things are and will continue ...

Google privacy policy may not protect your identity, advocates say - Network World
03/20/07
Some Google observers are concerned that a new privacy policy announced by the Web search giant may contain holes that could make it possible to connect search logs to the names of users, potentially defeating the purpose of Google’s plan to make ...

DHS head: Security and privacy not at odds - Network World
03/15/07
The head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Thursday downplayed privacy concerns raised by the government's efforts to create standardized, data-chipped drivers licenses across the country.

Wal-Mart and the Three Great RFID Lies - Network World
03/15/07
One of the Three Great Lies used to be: My wife doesn't understand me. What are the Three Great RFID Lies?

If you don’t apologize, you’ll be sorry - Network World
03/14/07
There are so many ways to say you’re sorry. And few organizations have had as many opportunities to apologize over the past two years as those that handle the sensitive personal information of Americans.

Many government Web sites fail to serve the public - Network World
03/12/07
Seems it's OK for some portions of our government to go looking pretty will-nilly for information about us, but we can’t get information easily about them. A report issued today by the National Security Archive Knight Open Government survey, found ...

Q&A: Shred your data to stay ahead of the pack - Network World
03/09/07
Jeff Jonas, the chief scientist and distinguished engineer at IBM's entity analytic solutions group, has developed a means of sharing corporate data without revealing what that data contains.

Gates calls for new privacy law - Network World
03/07/07
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates asked the U.S. Congress to pass a comprehensive privacy law this year, allowing consumers to control how their personal information is used.

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