Telstra customers will receive the same service telco companies have been providing the law authorities for years, the ability to track people's location by their mobile phone.
GPS technology is being used in the US to track sex offenders, violent criminals and even children jigging school.
Gillette has dismissed complaints by privacy groups that the company plans to use smart tags in its products to track and photograph shoppers.
Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology has generated a lot of interest recently, and promises to generate a lot more in 2004.
At first, the signs are subtle: Your computer is slower than usual, something is different about your browser, occasionally you're redirected to an unfamiliar Web site for no apparent reason.
Will aggregation replace search when it comes to finding useful content on the Web? I reckon so.
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Cases highlighted in recent times prove that Big Brother is well and truly entering the workplace, opening up a whole new can of worms.
Mobile phones are giving employers new ways to check up on employees in the field -- and raising fresh workplace privacy concerns as a result.
Civil liberties groups from both sides of the Atlantic have joined forces to oppose the proposed introduction and cross-border sharing of biometrics and RFID in more than one billion passports worldwide.
Phil Zimmermann, the man who created the PGP encryption product, believes that Moore's Law and surveillance cameras make for a particularly dangerous cocktail.
The United States moves forward with a plan to put RFID chips and biometric data in passports by early next year.
Personalisation has become an accepted part of technological interaction, but what does the future hold?
ZoneAlarm Security Suite puts Norton Internet Security and McAfee Internet Security to shame with its easy-to-use features.
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.
AVG Internet Security 8.0 provides strong protection against malicious Web sites, but its full-system scans sometimes tax system resources and produce false positives.
If you need to make sleeker-looking documents and presentations, Microsoft Office Standard 2007 is a worthy upgrade. But stick to your current software if you don't feel that it lacks anything.
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