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Seeking to use a novel approach to the problem of patrolling the lengthy border between the U.S. and Mexico, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has proposed using remote cameras that would be connected to the Internet, allowing regular citizens the opportunity to help watch for border-jumpers. Perry has proposed...
If you're a woman, you are 25 times more likely to hear filthy come-on lines while online than if you are a man, according to a new study. The research by the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering demonstrates that chat room participants with female user names received 25 ti...
Search engine users concerned about the government's new interest in search term data were relieved by a Federal judge's ruling on Friday. Judge James Ware of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, said Google must provide the government with 50,000 Web addresses in its sea...
Google has introduced a new version of its desktop software that gives users the ability to find information on any PC and then share it with others. Called Desktop 3, the application takes data residing on an individual's PC and stores it on Google's central computer for a limited time. The search ...
Following Thursday's revelation that the Bush Administration has ordered search-engine providers to turn over usage records, citizen rights advocates and attorneys have voiced alarm over what many say is an unprecedented invasion of privacy. The administration has said it needs to survey this data i...
Court decisions recognizing the CAN-SPAM Act, which is now almost two years old, have been few and far between. However, recent actions have made up for lost time, say proponents of the law. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the Fifth Circuit Court's summary judgment that the University of T...
Sony BMG Music Entertainment has reached a tentative settlement with consumers who filed a class action lawsuit over the music giant's digital rights management (DRM) software on CDs, according to documents filed in New York federal court on Wednesday. The settlement will likely be considered in a h...
Following the example of the United Kingdom, San Francisco officials have installed two surveillance cameras in a high-crime area. This popular trend is perhaps only the beginning of an "always on" surveillance society. Compared with the 4.2 million cameras installed in the UK, San Francisco's two ...
Microsoft's latest effort to validate the legitimacy of Windows copies and thwart software piracy has been hit by a hack published online that illustrates easy bypass of the new software scheme, known as Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA). Microsoft is requiring the validation process for all updates a...
The man who helped safeguard e-mail with his Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) desktop encryption program is now at work on ensuring no one can eavesdrop on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) conversations. Phil Zimmermann was scheduled to demonstrate his VoIP security program at Black Hat Briefings, an In...
The past several weeks have seen an onslaught of articles regarding privacy, identity and security. Most of them bemoan the fact that we all have too many passwords, they are difficult and costly to manage, and that "there must be a better way!" Suggestions have ranged from password-reset and passw...
New electronic privacy laws are forcing businesses to rethink how they handle their digital data. The retail industry is now regulated by new privacy laws aimed at reducing the growth of identity theft and consumer fraud. Congress passed The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act, known as FACTA,...
An array of state legislatures are moving forward with measures this year to regulate automobile event data recorders -- the so-called "black boxes" that monitor vehicle speed, seat belt use and other safety data, according to experts. According to a report by Pam Greenberg, an analyst with the legi...
The Liberty Alliance today announced it will write specifications designed to enhance the privacy of mobile messaging, a lucrative, but insecure way of selling content. The alliance is a consortium of industry representatives working to create online authentication standards. The newly formed allian...
The Federal Trade Commission today launched "Operation Spam Zombies," a campaign to encourage Internet service providers (ISPs) to crack down on compromised computers within their networks that are being used to spew spam onto the Internet. These "zombie" computers -- so-called because they're remot...
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