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Enhancing Online Privacy and Anonymity with Whonix as Your Digital Shield

In today's landscape of pervasive digital surveillance and privacy concerns, Whonix is a hardened Linux distro that provides a robust solution for safe and anonymous Internet usage. Whonix Gateway and Workstation provide an innovative dual-component ...
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Explore Tor Browser 14.0 Updates: Enhanced Privacy and Security Features

Tor Browser has long been recognized for providing anon...
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Practical Tips for Protecting Email Privacy on Linux

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FBI device sets off alarms

FBI device sets off alarms

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Friday, in a New Jersey courtroom, the FBI is scheduled to deliver a secret report detailing a new way it uses to spy on American citizens behind their backs. The dispute is technical, involving a way to track a computer's every keystroke.. . .

What is Echelon?

What is Echelon?

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The following information consists entirely of excerpts from the European Parliament's "Temporary Committee on the ECHELON Interception System" report. After reading the entire lengthy, and often technical, report I decided to sift through and find the information that most people would . . .

Privacy: The Liability Link

Privacy: The Liability Link

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Consumer information is currency. And businesses that collect, mint and trade this information have done so thus far with relative impunity. "The key to privacy protection is enforcement. Right now, there's no financial harm for not having or following a privacy . . .

Copy-proof CDs shrouded in secrecy

Copy-proof CDs shrouded in secrecy

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Slipped quietly alongside regular music CDs in record stores, mostly in Europe, are more than 1 million secretly altered discs -- stealth compact discs that represent the recording industry's hopes for a solution to digital music piracy. The five major record . . .

Judge: Cable ISP must give customer info to feds

Judge: Cable ISP must give customer info to feds

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Optimum Choice, a cable Internet service provider (ISP) operated by New York-based Cablevision, confirmed Thursday that a federal judge has ordered the company to turn over information about its customers to federal authorities without alerting the customers that their information is . . .

Carnivore to add wireless to its menu?

Carnivore to add wireless to its menu?

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Federal law enforcement officials may use a controversial surveillance technology to monitor e-mail and other text messages delivered through wireless devices, such as cell phones--a fact that has one telecommunications group concerned.. . .

FBI Could Tap Into Wireless E-Mail

FBI Could Tap Into Wireless E-Mail

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Federal law enforcement authorities may soon expand the use of a controversial FBI monitoring system to capture e-mail and other text messages sent through wireless telephone carriers, as well as messages from their Internet service providers, according to a telecommunications industry group.. . .

Microsoft takes Passport to Washington for talks

Microsoft takes Passport to Washington for talks

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A Washington-based privacy group held the first of what will be a series of discussions with Microsoft Corp. Wednesday regarding the future of the software maker's Passport authentication service. The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) solicited talks with members of . . .

EU to tackle internet security

EU to tackle internet security

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Alarmed at the disclosure of the existence of a controversial email and telephone eavesdropping network, Echelon, the European Commission has already taken the step of urging the public to encrypt all their emails. There is deep concern within the European . . .

Excite@Home snoops on user downloads

Excite@Home snoops on user downloads

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The company is scanning its customers' Internet activity and says it will terminate the accounts of those users who are downloading pirated material. Excite@Home Australia users are up in arms over the telco's random raids on their broadband accounts in search of pirate activity, with many saying it's an invasion of their privacy.. . .

Privacy Wonk Warns of Web Gadgets

Privacy Wonk Warns of Web Gadgets

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Personal Web-enabled devices promise to give consumers a more efficient, highly connected lifestyle. But as users introduce these products into their home, with them come a whole new category of privacy breaches, warned Richard Smith, CTO of the Privacy Foundation, in . . .

EFF Praise For Courts Privacy Decision

EFF Praise For Court's Privacy Decision

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation is praising a California court decision that protects the right to post to the Internet anonymously. The case pitted free-speech advocates, such as the foundation, against companies and others unhappy with anonymous notes that are critical of . . .

Privacy experts slam snooping code of practice

Privacy experts slam snooping code of practice

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Cyber-liberty experts are frustrated that the Home Office consultation paper offers no guidelines on the legitimate interception of communications. Privacy experts have slammed the Home Office's draft Code of Practice for accessing communications data as a nebulous attempt . . .

Big Brother is watching Britain

Big Brother is watching Britain

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Along with the expanding speed camera network, Britain's CCTV network is the most extensive in Europe, leading to fears about civil liberties. Ever get the feeling someone is watching you? In Britain it is more likely to be true than anywhere else in Europe. . . .

Web Bugs Are Tracking Use of Internet

'Web Bugs' Are Tracking Use of Internet

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Many people who have personal Web pages are unknowingly tracking people who visit and sending the information to third parties, according to a new report. The report -- which will be released today by Cyveillance, which tracks Internet sites for corporate . . .

Guidelines back employee rights to e-privacy

Guidelines back employee rights to e-privacy

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New guidelines that suggest staff may get greater protection against employers snooping on their e-mail and internet use were greeted with concern by industry on Friday. The guidelines on staff surveillance have been set for government departments and agencies. They suggest . . .

Security firms want video-surveillance law

Security firms want video-surveillance law

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Facing a growing public backlash, the security industry called on Congress Wednesday to regulate the use of surveillance systems that match faces of people on the street with a database of known criminals. The developer of a prominent face-scanning system, along . . .

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