Unencrypted data on all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales has gone missing after a Home Office contractor lost a USB stick on which it had been stored.
GPS technology is being used in the US to track sex offenders, violent criminals and even children jigging school.
The risk of Internet piracy has lead Yahoo to take immediate action, while paedophile groups appear to be given free reign to remain online
With a national DNA database in the pipeline, ZDNet decided to take a look at the technology backbone that will support it and the privacy issues surrounding the initiative.
Only three percent of surveyed ZDNet readers believe Internet Service Providers should monitor all user activity, following a parliamentary report that recommends user logs should be kept on customers' online activities.
According to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner's 2007 annual report, Australian consumers should feel pretty safe but that's because it's full of crap.
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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.
E-mails are usually regarded as being primarily an IT issue which is handled by way of backups, but most IT managers haven't prioritised corporate governance, regulatory compliance and the risks associated with actions such as legal discovery. This could cost a company dearly.
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.
Malware is a malicious and destructive form of Web browser hijacking. Combating such an attack requires patience and a set of specific tools, references, and resources. Prepare yourself with this guide.
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.
Spam sent by text message could become a bigger problem than e-mail-based spam unless the industry takes action, according to an independent mobile phone regulator.
Is all the fuss about online privacy justified?
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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?
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