Last week, the UK's Greater Manchester Police launched a Facebook application much to the consternation of privacy advocates.
A bill passed in parliament yesterday that allows police to intercept Australians’ telephone, Internet and email communication encourages “lazy policing” and corruption, a civil liberties group has warned.
Privacy advocates vow that they would have serious concerns if Australia followed US moves to allow organisations to track people’s location via their mobile phones.
It looks like the now-infamous case of until recently jailed Russian software developer Dmitry Sklyarov was just the beginning of a broader trend to cast IT professionals in the role of info cop. Software developers like Sklyarov and even help desk and system administration workers, it appears, are being deputised to enforce ill-conceived laws aimed at perceived Web-borne threats to society.
What types of cybercrime occur in Australia and what are the authorities doing to combat the problem? To what extent is this new form of crime impacting on our lives and our livelihood? How exposed is your business to the threat of cybercrime and what can you do minimise the risks? Learn more in the first part or our Cybercrime Down Under special report.
Banks are under a great deal of pressure to keep their systems watertight but sometimes they implement security policies that make no sense and create unnecessary inconveniences for their customers.
Australian Federal Police agent, Nigel Phair, said most Australian organisations sweep security breaches under the carpet to avoid public scrutiny in the courts.
Will corporate leaders broadly adopt the draconian measures in this cautionary tale? Not likely. But once RFID sensors are smart, cheap and pervasive, the potential for abuse will be significant.
US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.
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The Bush administration plans to ask the Federal Communications Commission to order Net telephony providers to comply with a law that would permit police to wiretap conversations carried over the Internet.
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For those organisation who lose hundreds of thousands dollars worth of laptops to thieves each year, the humiliation of the loss is possibly as infuriating a burden to bare as the financial costs associated with it. However these organisations can assuage some of their distress knowing that their problems are shared by one of the world's most powerful law enforcement agencies. In May, thieves reduced the size of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation's laptop fleet by 182, in one operation. If the FBI can't keep its laptops safe from thieves who can?
Microsoft's upcoming Palladium architecture for 'Trusted Computing' may secure PCs, but it also threatens to turn people's computers into spies.
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