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.
Hewlett-Packard has announced a settlement with Business Week and New York Times reporters on whom the computer maker spied during a hunt for a boardroom leak.
The US National Security Agency and President Bush's wiretapping program may or may not have violated the US Constitution -- we may never find out for sure because the case was thrown out of court last week on "narrow procedural grounds".
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.
The German government wants to create Trojans that will spy on suspected criminals.
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.
In what could prove to be one of the great second acts in Internet history, erstwhile king of spam Sanford Wallace takes centre stage this week as exhibit A in a federal crackdown on invasive online advertising software.
Can a national ID card protect Australians against terrorist attacks? And can citizens' details be protected by Public Key Infrastructure? We look at the types of hardware and software employed to combat terrorism, and how ports and other critical infrastructure are protected.
Like it or not, network administrators these days must take on the added task of playing Big Brother, monitoring employees' use of the computers and network. Here are 10 of the most effective ways to keep an eye on what your users are doing.
The United States moves forward with a plan to put RFID chips and biometric data in passports by early next year.
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