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The FBI has dressed its online wolf in sheep's clothing, changing the name of its controversial e-mail surveillance system, known to this point as Carnivore. Carnivore now goes by the less beastly moniker of DCS1000, drawn from the work it does . . .
Web surfers trading free music and other digital goods over one of the Web's most popular file-swapping networks are sharing much more: sensitive data files that could expose them to identity theft. One of several file-swapping networks coat-tailing on Napster's success, . . .
Imagine being able to trace where your e-mail goes, and where it's forwarded. Say you had a way to verify that the CEO of the Fortune 500 company you've been hounding for a job indeed got the resume you e-mailed . . .
A newly identified snooping technology allows someone sending an e-mail to see what the recipient wrote when it is forwarded on to another user, an Internet privacy group announced Monday. It really is a wiretap and it's "very illegal and very . . .
Super Bowl fans never knew it, but police video cameras focused on their faces, one by one, as they streamed through the turnstiles in Tampa on Sunday. Cables instantly carried the images to computers, which spent less than a second comparing . . .
The North Carolina Democrat's bill stakes out an aggressive position in the debate over Internet privacy, requiring Web sites to reveal their use of technology that commonly runs in the background without the knowledge of the visitor. Most other bills . . .
A showdown is brewing between the technology industry and consumer advocates over what kind of online privacy legislation the 107th Congress should adopt. Consumer advocates and many legislators want a federal law that limits what e-commerce firms can do with . . .
A federal court decision that restricted a DVD-descrambling program ignores free speech rights and should be overturned, eight different coalitions claim. The groups, representing everyone from cryptographers to journalists, have ganged up to attack the ruling in separate amicus briefs scheduled . . .
Despite tighter regulations, European website operators are no better at protecting the privacy of visitors than their U.S. counterparts, according a study released Thursday. Two-thirds of the 751 websites in the United States and Europe surveyed by the advocacy group Consumers . . .
The vast majority of European and US Web sites are failing to protect users' privacy, according to a UK-based consumer interest group Thursday. Consumers International, which represents 263 consumer organisations, says that hardly any Internet sites which collect . . .
The prosecution of a Drug Enforcement Administration officer in Los Angeles on charges of selling data from a variety of restricted databases has privacy advocates again questioning whether government protections on private data are strict enough.
What a precious document is your resume - the deeply personal record of your status and achievement, your whole life contained in a couple of absolutely priceless pages. And on the open market, it is worth about 7 cents. . . .
Having failed to pass any meaningful Internet privacy legislation last year even with a resounding mandate from most voters, Congress cannot afford to miss another opportunity to enact online privacy laws this year, lest the Internet be gridlocked by a myriad . . .
President-elect George W. Bush hasn't even taken office yet, but there's already a battle brewing for his attention between groups that are espousing different approaches for regulating online data privacy. In a letter sent Tuesday to Bush, congressional leaders and . . .
Washington is more eager than ever to get its arms around the Internet, and much of the work of the 107th Congress will revolve around e-commerce and other online issues. For all the conventional hand-wringing over the perceived perils of a . . .
More intrusive than telemarketers who call at dinnertime or the junk mail that floods our mailbox at home, Internet spam -- unsolicited commercial e-mail -- is growing faster than some networks can handle. . . .
"Microsoft Product Activation for Windows" will tie a Windows product key to one specific PC in order to reduce casual copying. In order to "activate" it, a customer will send data about the installation, such as product ID number and hardware . . .
Shopping on the Internet is like signing up for a supermarket saver card or getting that extra 10 percent discount when you sign up for a retail store's credit card. You get some immediate savings, but you are also involuntarily subscribing . . .
The phenomenal rise, and technological sophistication, of workplace surveillance leads the list of the Top 10 privacy stories of the year 2000, according to a Privacy Foundation analysis. Also in the Top 10 are proposed new medical privacy rules; the FBI's . . .
Irish websites will have to adopt "clear and straightforward" privacy policies or face prosecution. Together with other organisations collecting data, they will also face random audits to ensure they comply with data protection laws. . . .