Surveillance-IT

Facebook Privacy Boosted Again After Irish Pressure

New users will be given more education during the signing up process

12 years ago

Theresa May Rebuffs ‘Snooper’s Charter’ Criticisms Before Committee

Home secretary bats away most questions on the Communications Data Bill but has a few wobbles in the face of…

12 years ago

South Carolina Hit By Massive Data Breach

Hackers have stolen sensitive data on 3.6 million taxpayers from the US state of South Carolina, in the latest breach…

12 years ago

British Spy Firm Rejects US Claim It Makes Android Malware

US agency says Gamma International's software is being used by criminals - but the British firm begs to differ

12 years ago

Google May Win, Whether Or Not It Bows To EU Privacy Pressure

Changes to Google's privacy policy may come through in response to the EU regulators. But Peter Judge wonders if they…

12 years ago

Santander In Cookie Security ‘Train Wreck’

Santander customers aren't happy about alleged security failings at the bank

12 years ago

EU Watchdogs Order Google Privacy ‘Upgrade’

Google has to give users more control, says the EU

12 years ago

EU Watchdogs To Outlaw Google Privacy Policy

Unified Google privacy policy is likely to be found illegal

12 years ago

Neelie Kroes Warns On Do Not Track Watering Down

Kroes calls on industry to ensure DNT is not weakened because of advertiser pressure

12 years ago

RSA 2012: Jimmy Wales Set For ‘Snooper’s Charter’ Showdown With Theresa May

Wales tells TechWeekEurope he plans to explain the flaws of 'Snooper's Charter' to home secretary next month

12 years ago

Telefonica To Resell User Location Tracking Data

O2 parent Telefonica has launched a new unit devoted to reselling real-time data on the movements of its users around…

12 years ago

Facebook Bug Adds False ‘Likes’

Shares count as likes, even when shared in private, but only on plug-in counters, but some likes are liking stuff…

12 years ago

Microsoft Upsets Advertisers With IE 10 Do Not Track

Microsoft has provoked fury among advertisers for its default 'Do Not Track' feature in Internet Explorer 10

12 years ago

Facebook Privacy Boosted As French Watchdog Dismisses Message ‘Bug’

French data protection watchdog says claims of a bug revealing private messages on users' walls are nonsense

12 years ago

BYOD Users Fear Employer Snooping

A new survey has revealed that BYOD users have privacy concerns over the snooping habits of their bosses

12 years ago

Survey: Regulation, Privacy Erode Business Confidence In Cloud

Businesses feel cloud computing lacks maturity and shows little innovation, according to a survey by the Cloud Security Alliance

12 years ago

Mozilla Opens Persona For Beta Testing

The password-slaying authentication platform is now available to the public

12 years ago

Iranian Internet Censorship Continues With Google And Gmail Block

Secure services blocked. Is Iran planning a national intranet launch?

12 years ago

Facebook Removes Face Recognition Software In Europe

Social network withdraws facial recognition features voluntarily after Irish audit

12 years ago

US Court Will Not Challenge Facebook Privacy Settlement

US appeals court rejected the claims that £5.8m settlement favours Facebook and lawyers

12 years ago

Stolen Edinburgh Council Laptop Contains Children’s Details

We hope the crook wiped data before fencing the computer, Council says

12 years ago

Chrome Gets ‘Do Not Track’

Google has added the privacy feature to Chrome's latest developer build, with the release version to get 'Do Not Track'…

12 years ago

Mozilla Fixes Firefox 15 Private Browsing Bug

Firefox Private Browsing wasn't so private, but a fix has been issued

12 years ago

Web Firm Provokes ICO Over ‘Ridiculous’ Cookie Law

Cookie law sends firm cookie as it asks ICO to sue it for breaching the regulation

12 years ago

Most File-Sharers Can Be Easily Monitored, Study Finds

The majority of pirates can be tracked within three hours of starting a download

12 years ago

Fujitsu, eBay Lead Big Data Privacy Research Group

The Cloud Security Alliance has formed a working group to investigate big data privacy and security challenges and to form…

12 years ago

Government Spyware Seller Gamma International Hacked

FinSpy seller admits a server containing demo software was compromised

12 years ago