GPS technology is being used in the US to track sex offenders, violent criminals and even children jigging school.
Part 2: No prosecutions under new security laws have been reported, but critics say aggressive investigations and public overreaction have had a chilling effect on personal freedoms.
Google, Yahoo, MSN along with other search and e-mail companies may no longer be acting illegally if they spy on their customers and then share that information with the National Security Agency.
A federal appeals court on Friday handed a major setback to the record industry's legal tactics for tracking down and suing alleged file swappers, in a high-profile case pitting copyright law against the privacy rights of Internet users.
A coalition aiming to erase junk e-mail unites behind the law but stumbles over technology.
Civil liberties groups from both sides of the Atlantic have joined forces to oppose the proposed introduction and cross-border sharing of biometrics and RFID in more than one billion passports worldwide.
The World Wide Web Consortium's Lorrie Cranor urges Webmasters to adopt better privacy regulations. Her message: Now is the time to start acting more responsibly.
IT professionals are gambling with the security of systems, and doing it with the odds against them stacked higher than they can imagine, according to IT security expert Peter Neumann.
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.
Lee Siegel is a cultural critic who has written for The New York Times, Slate and The Nation. However, he is perhaps best known for what happened in 2006 when writing for The New Republic.
Web surfers battling "spyware" face a new problem: So-called spyware-killing programs that install the same kind of unwanted advertising software they promise to erase.
Pop-up advertisements have thrived for years despite numerous efforts to eradicate them, but now online marketers are seriously wondering whether the Web's most detested ad format is about to meet its match: Microsoft.
The Internet's governing technical body gives a stamp of approval to a group intent on creating an open standard for instant messaging.
AOL Time Warner has released a version of its Netscape browser that lets Web surfers suppress pop-up ads, a further sign of declining fortunes for a widely hated marketing format.
Security expert Bruce Schneier argues that constant vigilance, not technology, is the best defence against computer break-ins.
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