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• Privacy group targets XP

  A group of privacy organisations have detailed a complaint it plans to submit to the FTC, charging Microsoft with inadequate security and privacy provisions in the forthcoming Windows XP and alleging unfair and deceptive trade practices.

• Microsoft to overhaul Passport

  Microsoft has agreed to make sweeping changes to its Passport authentication system as part of a settlement agreement with the Federal Trade Commission.

• FTC chairman develops privacy agenda

  Timothy Muris jumps on board the FTC train as new chairman, striving to make sense of the privacy and antitrust issues that have been occupying the commission.

• Wireless companies opt-in on privacy

  New rules that will soon require US mobile phone companies to track their customers in an emergency will use technology that opens up a host of marketing opportunities, but also potential privacy headaches.

• 130 arrested in Net fraud crackdown

  More than 130 people have been arrested as part of the latest effort by law-enforcement agencies to crack down on Internet fraud, according to the Justice Department.

Features and Case Studies (24)

• Passport to get Web services stamp

  Microsoft intends to lay out a plan to make its .Net Passport authentication service more Web services-friendly.

• When phone meets Internet

  As VoIP use rises, so does the number of questions about it. Here are some of the essentials.

• Net fraud and the truth

  We need to get the facts straight about identity theft and the Internet and stop scaring consumers away from the antidote to a US$47 billion national problem in the U.S.

• The end of e-mail?

  The world's e-mail network is no longer the friendly place it once was and authentication could mean the end for the platform as we know it.

• Heard of drive-by hacking? Meet drive-by spamming

  'Warspammers' are taking advantage of unprotected wireless LANs to send out millions of junk e-mails. What does this mean for enterprises tackling the security issues?

Reviews (4)

• Microsoft plays browser games

  News analysis: Following its recent settlement with AOL, Microsoft has let slip that it will stop making Internet Explorer as a standalone product. But what does this mean for users?

• Palm gadget's true colours fall short

  The handheld maker owns up to what some users had suspected for some time: Its low-end Palm m130 isn't capable of displaying the 64,000-plus colours the company had claimed in ads.

• Spyware cures may cause more harm

  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.

• Microsoft discloses more Windows code

  Microsoft has disclosed technical information vital to allowing third-party developers create software that works well with Windows.

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