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.
Spanish police have arrested a man suspected of writing a virus that is capable of spying on users through their Webcams and also stealing online bank passwords.
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The world changes fast and many enterprises large and small fail to see the next wave or see it and dismiss it.
Communications minister Stephen Conroy today announced the controversial web filtering blacklist will be scrapped and be replaced with a whitelist-based filtering regime, to be administered by viewer voting through a family-friendly digital TV-only show called 'The White List'.
Pretty soon, the government will be screening and filtering our email as well as making blogs like this one disappear.
Keeping an eye on staff e-mail exchanges, or monitoring their Web surfing activities, is an ethical and political minefield. How are Australian enterprises balancing this emotive issue?
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British Airways chief information officer Paul Coby can justifiably claim more than most of his peers to have had a tough time coping with the economic slowdown and cuts in IT budgets.
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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Microsoft has released a new preview version of its forthcoming OS, but as the final release date approaches, Windows XP has become a lightning rod for the company's many detractors.
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