items tagged with Privacy
Lazy Ass Google Lawyers: All Your Chrome Files Were Belonged To Us
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Vendors
2008-09-08 05:11:35
In the mad rush to download and install the Google Chrome browser, who actually read the End User License Agreement before agreeing to it? Thankfully a few people did, and discovered that Google had claimed legal ownership of everything displayed by it. But it is the reason why that really makes you want to spit blood and feathers...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Vendors
2008-09-08 05:11:35
In the mad rush to download and install the Google Chrome browser, who actually read the End User License Agreement before agreeing to it? Thankfully a few people did, and discovered that Google had claimed legal ownership of everything displayed by it. But it is the reason why that really makes you want to spit blood and feathers...
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Bad Phorm: Detectives question BT over secret trials
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Telecoms
2008-09-05 11:02:27
File under About Bloody Time. At long last UK police detectives have questioned BT about the secret Phorm trials it carried out without customer knowledge nor consent. Does this mean a formal investigation is to follow?
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Telecoms
2008-09-05 11:02:27
File under About Bloody Time. At long last UK police detectives have questioned BT about the secret Phorm trials it carried out without customer knowledge nor consent. Does this mean a formal investigation is to follow?
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Face recognition comes to Google's Picasa
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-09-03 02:50:25
Google has added face recognition to its Picasa Web Albums service. Is that something to worry about, or should we just sit back and enjoy it?
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-09-03 02:50:25
Google has added face recognition to its Picasa Web Albums service. Is that something to worry about, or should we just sit back and enjoy it?
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Whoops! iPhone passcode bypass a cinch
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: iPhone
2008-08-27 16:27:20
Did you think putting a passcode lock on your iPhone would help keep your personal information safe as well as stopping people from using the phone without permission? Well think again because it turns out that the iPhone is as easy to crack as a soft shelled peanut.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: iPhone
2008-08-27 16:27:20
Did you think putting a passcode lock on your iPhone would help keep your personal information safe as well as stopping people from using the phone without permission? Well think again because it turns out that the iPhone is as easy to crack as a soft shelled peanut.
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One million bank accounts going, going, gone for £35 on eBay
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-08-26 05:55:02
When Andrew Chapman from Oxford, England successfully bid £35 for an old computer on eBay he wasn't expecting to have the details of a million bank accounts thrown in for free...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-08-26 05:55:02
When Andrew Chapman from Oxford, England successfully bid £35 for an old computer on eBay he wasn't expecting to have the details of a million bank accounts thrown in for free...
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Privacy Commissioner lukewarm on data breach disclosures
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-08-24 23:15:42
Is Australia taking privacy seriously? The Australian Privacy Commissioner recently supported the introduction of mandatory data breach notification, but a new publication from her office provides plenty of wriggle room for organisations that want to keep their lapses under wraps.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-08-24 23:15:42
Is Australia taking privacy seriously? The Australian Privacy Commissioner recently supported the introduction of mandatory data breach notification, but a new publication from her office provides plenty of wriggle room for organisations that want to keep their lapses under wraps.
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How secure is MobileMe if used while, well, mobile?
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-08-24 19:01:15
It might seem like something of a silly question, but people are asking just how secure the Apple MobileMe service is if you use it while mobile after learning it has a surprising lack of data encryption functionality...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-08-24 19:01:15
It might seem like something of a silly question, but people are asking just how secure the Apple MobileMe service is if you use it while mobile after learning it has a surprising lack of data encryption functionality...
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Criminal blunder as UK government loses 84,000 prisoners
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-08-22 05:51:11
The UK Home Office has admitted that a memory stick with the data concerning every single prisoner in the country, all 84,000 of them, has managed to escape. Of course, this being the UK government, the data was not encrypted...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-08-22 05:51:11
The UK Home Office has admitted that a memory stick with the data concerning every single prisoner in the country, all 84,000 of them, has managed to escape. Of course, this being the UK government, the data was not encrypted...
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Google Street View: just do it?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-08-12 05:23:06
As individuals fret over homes and private roads being seen on Google’s Street View, is Google taking privacy requests seriously?
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-08-12 05:23:06
As individuals fret over homes and private roads being seen on Google’s Street View, is Google taking privacy requests seriously?
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Google Street View cars caught snooping on school grounds
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2008-08-07 03:20:06
Google's Street View images are supposed to be taken only from public roads, but the camera cars have found their way onto school campuses.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2008-08-07 03:20:06
Google's Street View images are supposed to be taken only from public roads, but the camera cars have found their way onto school campuses.
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Google Street View: Is privacy only for the rich?
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-08-06 21:14:41
Investigation of the coverage of Google Street View of upmarket parts of Melbourne seem to show that the some of the more swanky areas have not been photographed. Is this because the rich get the privilege of privacy or mere coincidence?
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-08-06 21:14:41
Investigation of the coverage of Google Street View of upmarket parts of Melbourne seem to show that the some of the more swanky areas have not been photographed. Is this because the rich get the privilege of privacy or mere coincidence?
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Bad Phorm: EU demands UK Government response on intrusive web ad tracking technology
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Regulatory
2008-08-06 07:49:35
Controversial behavioral advertising targeting outfit Phorm, whose Webwise ad technology monitors user browsing habits to serve appropriate advertising messages, might have dragged the UK Government into a slugfest with the European Union over a possible breach of strict Euro data laws...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Regulatory
2008-08-06 07:49:35
Controversial behavioral advertising targeting outfit Phorm, whose Webwise ad technology monitors user browsing habits to serve appropriate advertising messages, might have dragged the UK Government into a slugfest with the European Union over a possible breach of strict Euro data laws...
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A view on Google's Street View
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-08-06 05:27:28
If you want to know what a particular urban area looks like without actually visiting it, Google Maps' Street View is about as good as it gets. But not everyone is happy about what's on display.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-08-06 05:27:28
If you want to know what a particular urban area looks like without actually visiting it, Google Maps' Street View is about as good as it gets. But not everyone is happy about what's on display.
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Go ogle the Aussie Street View at Google Maps for yourself!
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-08-04 10:33:54
The controversial “Street View” feature of Google Maps first launched in the US has now come to Australia, raising privacy fears while giving the world a street level view of the land down under. Go ogle it and see what you think!
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-08-04 10:33:54
The controversial “Street View” feature of Google Maps first launched in the US has now come to Australia, raising privacy fears while giving the world a street level view of the land down under. Go ogle it and see what you think!
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Boring couple forces Google into admitting that complete privacy no longer exists
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2008-08-01 09:37:28
Has Google become schizophrenic? It seems that way as with one breath it tells us that it takes our privacy very seriously indeed, and in the next admits that there is no privacy...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2008-08-01 09:37:28
Has Google become schizophrenic? It seems that way as with one breath it tells us that it takes our privacy very seriously indeed, and in the next admits that there is no privacy...
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Majority of online banking sites insecure by design
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-07-24 17:35:58
That is the surprising conclusion of a University of Michigan study which discovered that more than 75 percent of bank sites surveyed had at least one flaw which could make customers vulnerable to financial or identity loss. The findings, which will be presented today at a Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security meeting at the Carnegie Mellon University, suggest that these are design flaws that cannot be fixed with a simple patch...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-07-24 17:35:58
That is the surprising conclusion of a University of Michigan study which discovered that more than 75 percent of bank sites surveyed had at least one flaw which could make customers vulnerable to financial or identity loss. The findings, which will be presented today at a Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security meeting at the Carnegie Mellon University, suggest that these are design flaws that cannot be fixed with a simple patch...
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Dark Knight portends dark days for civil liberties
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-07-18 02:23:00
There is a scenario in the new Batman movie which, although technically absurd, foreshadows a surveillance system that is frighteningly close to reality
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-07-18 02:23:00
There is a scenario in the new Batman movie which, although technically absurd, foreshadows a surveillance system that is frighteningly close to reality
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Just because you are not paranoid doesn't mean they are not reading your Gmail
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-07-09 05:17:30
Ever wondered if someone is reading your Google Mail messages? Well now, courtesy of a new Google privacy tool (oh the irony) you can find out...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-07-09 05:17:30
Ever wondered if someone is reading your Google Mail messages? Well now, courtesy of a new Google privacy tool (oh the irony) you can find out...
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Google Street View could meet Privacy Road Block in UK
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2008-07-05 08:32:34
The privacy related problems just pile up for Google as the first Street View vans are spotted in the United Kingdom and European Data Protection laws are rolled out to greet them...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2008-07-05 08:32:34
The privacy related problems just pile up for Google as the first Street View vans are spotted in the United Kingdom and European Data Protection laws are rolled out to greet them...
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No appeal from Google on YouTube data ruling
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2008-07-05 06:29:39
An appeal by Google against the decision of a federal judge in New York that it must hand over details of every video ever viewed on YouTube to Viacom was not only widely expected, but thought to be pretty much a given. A comment by Google's senior litigation counsel seems to suggest otherwise...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2008-07-05 06:29:39
An appeal by Google against the decision of a federal judge in New York that it must hand over details of every video ever viewed on YouTube to Viacom was not only widely expected, but thought to be pretty much a given. A comment by Google's senior litigation counsel seems to suggest otherwise...
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