Twitter supports “Do Not Track” option
The news was announced by Ed Felten, the US Federal Trade Commission’s CTO, at a New York Internet Week privacy panel, and Twitter has quickly come out to confirm it: …
Most CCTV systems are easily accessible to attackers
The use of CCTV cameras for physical surveillance of all kinds of environments has become so pervasive that most of us don’t give the devices a second thought anymore. …
Kickstarter bug granted access to unlaunched projects
A bug in the private application programming interface (API) of Kickstarter, the popular crowd funding website for creative projects, has exposed details about 70,000 projects …
Adobe privacy solution for advertisers and publishers
Adobe announced enhancements to Adobe TagManager, creating a flexible privacy solution that helps digital advertisers and publishers give consumers notice and control over how …
Fake “Account blocked!” email targets Hotmail users
Hotmail users are once again targeted by phishers. With “E-mail account alert!” in the Subject line, the fake email ostensibly comes from Microsoft. “This …
“Diablo 3 free download” scams target impatient users
Impatient gamers searching for the third installation of the popular Diablo role-playing game, hoping that has somehow been leaked ahead of its scheduled release on Tuesday, …
MySpace charged for violating user privacy, vows to do better
Charged by the US Federal Trade Commission with violating federal law due to having shared its users’ personal information and Web browsing habits with third parties, …
Privacy icons summarize privacy policies
A group of students from Yale University have shared their final project for their Control, Privacy, and Technology course which offers the novel idea of using icons to brief …
Altus Mobile: Mobile location surveillance
Polaris Wireless announced Altus Mobile, a mobile location surveillance application, providing accurate mass location of all mobile devices operating on a cellular network, …
Healthcare concerns over data loss increase
While approaches to patient data protection have evolved over the past several years, the aggressive transition to electronic health records (EHR) and the consumerization of …
FBI wants social networks and IM services to be wiretap-friendly
Worried that technology advances will leave its agents incapable of conducting surveillance of online communications of potential criminals, the FBI is quietly lobbying top …
Government workers unprotected against visual data leakage
Oculis Labs released results from its “Government Worker Privacy” survey on privacy risks for mobile workers. 104 people were randomly surveyed at this …
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