Gathered at the Legal Futures Conference at California's Stanford University over the weekend, online legal experts have again raised their concerns that the rise and rise of Web 2.0 has come at the expense of individual privacy.
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.
A European Commission advisory group has raised concerns about how Google uses and manages users' search data.
The Federal government has insisted that a new Centrelink debit card is not a precursor to a national ID card, but a policy expert has claimed that it maintains some similarities to the previous government's failed Access Card.
Google is leading the call to create a global standard for how companies deal with private consumer data, but part of the search giant's proposal is that remedies focus on whether harm was actually caused by the information leak.
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Discovering how your favourite search engine protects your privacy is not an easy task, despite recent moves from the major players to make policies more transparent.
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 Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other legislation have made data retention a hot topic. But about the flip side of the coin -- what happens when your data has finally served its purpose?
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ID management expert Phil Libin says critics knocking an upcoming government security program miss the point.
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PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is a respected encryption mechanism for protecting email correspondence. PGPi is available for free, so the main reason for purchasing PGP Personal Security 7.03 would be to obtain the extra features that McAfee provides.
McAfee Internet Security 2009 does a reasonable job, but it also leaves room for improvement.
If you're wary of Google knowing everything about your business and your web site, then Google Analytics is not for you. But for most, it's a useful ally in a challenging business climate.
Of the less well known open source browsers, Maxthon has been gaining attention as the second most popular Web browser in its home state of China. Based on IE's Trident engine, we found it to be highly customisable; however its lack of support makes it difficult to recommend for business.
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