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Privacy team works on RIP killer

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As the Home Office prepares to publish a draft code of practice for part three of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Act due in June, a small band of privacy advocates are rushing to develop a tool capable of undermining it. The RIP Act proposes to give the government the right to demand the plain text and/or encryption keys for any "information protected by encryption".. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 30, 2002

Privacy bill carries high IT price

A privacy bill that's pending in Congress could have significant IT ramifications for U.S. companies, since passage of the bill would require them to give customers access to personal information they have collected. For firms without centralized databases of that information, compliance would likely be expensive, critics warn.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 29, 2002

FBI's Carnivore-lies may have blown bin Laden inquiry

The Register writes, "Fundamental design flaws in the FBI's infamous Carnivore packet sniffer have led to the destruction of evidence related to a suspect possibly involved in Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network which had been obtained legally under a Foreign . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 29, 2002

Net effect: Antiterror eavesdropping

In the seven months since the passage of a sweeping law to combat terrorism, Internet and telecommunications companies have seen a surge in law enforcement requests to snoop on subscribers. Privacy advocates fear that expanded police power under the Patriot . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 28, 2002

Gov. Ventura Signs Internet Privacy Bill

Gov. Jesse Ventura has signed a bill that makes Minnesota the first state to enable Internet users to decide how ISPs handle their personal data. Ventura on Wednesday signed the legislation, which was overwhelmingly approved by state lawmakers late Saturday. Internet service providers are now required to notify subscribers that they can control whether their personal data is disclosed and how it is to be used. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 24, 2002

Privacy Council Announces Ten Guidelines for Managing Cyber Risk at FTC Security Workshop

Today at an FTC (Federal Trade Commission) public workshop on consumer information security, Dr. Larry Ponemon, CEO of Privacy Council, outlined a series of cyber security challenges facing corporate America. In his remarks, Dr. Ponemon focused on cyber-risk management and corporate . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 22, 2002

Internet Snafu at Indiana St.

Indiana State University accidentally posted personal information about 10,000 of its students -- including names and Social Security (news - web sites) numbers -- on the Internet for two weeks.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 21, 2002

Security Holes in Web Privacy Program

A popular Internet privacy service that lets Web surfers visit sites anonymously has fixed several serious flaws, and now the service's founder is offering a reward to the finder of the bugs.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 21, 2002

Web privacy bill sent to Senate

A Senate committee Friday sent an online privacy protection bill to the full Senate, but business lobbyists vowed to keep trying to derail the measure before it becomes law. "It's time Congress acted on privacy," declared South Carolina Democrat Sen. Ernest Hollings, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee that voted 15-8 to approve his bill. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 17, 2002

Privacy: Are you aware of the trade-offs?

Online privacy isn't the issue it once was, if indeed people really ever cared about it. Oh sure, everyone's in favor of privacy in the same way that they're in favor of Mom and apple pie, but exactly how software should preserve privacy is a more controversial issue.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 16, 2002

Latest privacy threat: Monitor glow

Law enforcement and intelligence agents may have a new tool to read the data displayed on a suspect's computer monitor, even when they can't see the screen. Marcus Kuhn, an associate professor at Cambridge University in England, presented research Monday . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 15, 2002

New Web spyware eschews cookies

Researchers in Scotland are developing a new kind of Web monitoring software that they claim can collect enormous amounts of data on Web surfers while remaining nearly undetectable. The technology came to light when it was chosen as one of 40 . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 12, 2002

Long-awaited privacy bill unveiled

Several U.S. lawmakers introduced a long-awaited privacy bill Wednesday that would allow U.S. businesses to share information about customers who have not explicitly forbidden them to do so. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 09, 2002

Securing Privacy, Part Two: Software Issues

This is the second article in a three-part series that will examine privacy concerns as they relate to security. The first installment in the series examined hardware-based privacy issues and solutions. This article will discuss software-based issues and solutions. As we shall see, some software is designed to safeguard privacy, while other software seems designed to compromise it. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 26, 2002

We're Watching You

The security chief at a big name brokerage firm in New York had a problem. Proprietary information was being leaked from the trading floor to a competitor and he didn't know how. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 26, 2002

‘Dr. Damn’ hits file-swapping firms

The record companies had their Napster, and the stream of file-swapping companies that followed. The file-swapping companies now have their "Dr. Damn." For the past several weeks, the pseudonymous programmer, a college student who declines to give his real name, has been releasing versions of popular file-swapping programs online with the advertising and user-tracking features stripped out.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 25, 2002

CFP: Should privacy technologies be built in?

While most attendees of the Computers, Freedom and Privacy (CFP) conference in San Francisco this week agreed that more needs to be done to protect consumers' privacy against the onslaught of rapidly advancing technologies that track, store and share sensitive data, how that privacy should be guarded remained a subject of fiery discussion. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 23, 2002

Carnivore's New Leash on Life?

A graduate student at Dartmouth College wants to tame the FBI's Carnivore surveillance system. Alex Iliev has proposed a way to force anyone who wants to monitor e-mail or Web browsing to follow the rules -- and not snoop on private . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 18, 2002

UK eyeing Internet privacy protections for workers

Businesses in the UK, including U.S. firms with branch offices there, may soon face limits on their ability to monitor employee Web surfing and e-mail activity under a new privacy code due to be released by a government body in the . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 17, 2002

Web consortium issues privacy standard

The W3C endorses the Platform for Privacy Preferences, a standard for automating privacy decisions online The World Wide Web Consortium has endorsed a new standard for privacy online.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 16, 2002

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