A few years back Google got into fearful trouble by recording the location of WiFi transceivers without asking for their owners’ permission.
Browsing: Data Privacy
The Internet Archive, the online repository of millions of digitized books, wants to shield its readers from other’s prying eyes — like the government’s.
Professional networking giant LinkedIn is the subject of much criticism for its new LinkedIn Intro offering for lapses in privacy and security, and is being described as the equivalent to a Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attack.
In recent months, I’ve started to take my own digital security much more seriously. I encrypt my e-mail when possible, I’ve moved away from Gmail, and I’ve become much more vigilant about using a VPN nearly all the time.
At the Internet Governance Forum 2013 in Bali this week, I caught up with Joe Alhadeff, chair of the ICC Commission for digital economy, and who is also Oracle’s privacy lead.
The Irish High Court is going to review whether the Irish Data Protection Commissioner’s refusal to investigate Facebook’s involvement with the U.S. government surveillance program Prism was lawful.
Security developers have released a stripped-down privacy-friendly browser, Aviator, based on the open source browser core Chromium as used by Google Chrome.
A consumer VPN service called CryptoSeal Privacy has shut down rather than risk government intrusions that could cost the company money in legal fees and threaten user privacy.
To support the start of the UK’s “Get Safe Online Week”, part of Cyber Security Awareness Month, GlobalSign is publishing some useful information to benefit today’s ever increasing online consumer community.
Dave Anderson, Senior Director, Voltage Security, explains how organisations can overcome a common barrier to cloud computing adoption