Who’s watching you? Online fears revealed
Despite lingering concerns about the U.S. economic recovery, Americans worry more about having their online privacy violated (25%) than declaring bankruptcy (23%) or losing …
Worrying increase in surveillance across Europe
A landmark EU-wide study of national privacy safeguards shows a decline in privacy protection across Europe and a steep increase in state surveillance over the lives of …
Android malware records and steals credit card numbers from phone conversations
We often blame users for failing to deny permissions required by malicious applications on Facebook or various mobile platforms, but the truth is that the list of permissions …
Tide turns for US employee privacy?
The issue of consumer privacy is getting more and more attention from media and people in general, as it rightly should. But what about employee privacy? When it comes to the …
Spyware prevention 101
Spyware goes by many names, including adware, malware, crimeware, scumware and snoopware, but no matter what you call it, its purpose is still the same: to creep into your …
“Rare animal gift” scams target FarmVille players
A string of Farmille-themed scams have been popping up on Facebook in the last few days, trying to lure users into completing surveys by using offers of rare animals and Farm …
Facebook backtracks on address and phone data sharing
It seems that enough people have objected to Facebook’s announcement about the imminent change regarding permissions for for address and mobile number that the social …
Unsecured IP cameras accessible to everyone
In the last couple of decades, we have become so accustomed to the idea that the public portion of our everyday life is watched and recorded – in stores, on the street, …
Dating site creates profiles based on information scraped online
Various publicly available information regarding all US citizen is likely to be aggregated and be made available by Gotham Dating Partners, according to an announcement made …
Facebook apps now allowed to harvest users’ address and mobile phone number
The latest step that Facebook took in the long process of eroding our privacy expectations happened on Friday. The social network announced on their Developer Blog that from …
Vodafone’s data security dirty laundry aired in public
Reports that Vodafone’s Australian operation is in the firing line of the country’s Privacy Commissioner, following the apparent placing of billing and call …
Move to electronic health records raises privacy and security concerns
What are the top security and privacy issues facing the healthcare industry in 2011? A panel of healthcare experts representing privacy, trends, technology, regulatory, data …
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