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  • Stolen e-passports worth millions

    Thousands of UK e-passports stolen this week are likely to sell for up to 20m on the black market, privacy experts have said.

  • Australia slides into surveillance society

    According to a new international privacy report, governments around the world are increasingly invading the privacy of citizens with surveillance, identification systems and archiving of private data -- and Australia is no exception.

  • Google considers privacy dashboard

    Google is considering introducing a "privacy dashboard" after the storm of controversy that has greeted its data-retention policies.

  • Yahoo calls for help over Web censorship

    Internet giant Yahoo has called for Internet, communications, and media organisations to work with the US government over Chinese censorship online, the Financial Times reported on Monday.

  • Privacy International demands Yahoo boycott

    The human-rights group is calling for action over claims Yahoo is 'cheerfully sacrificing human rights in return for a cut of the Chinese market'

Features and Case Studies (2)

  • Green light for e-passports

    The United States moves forward with a plan to put RFID chips and biometric data in passports by early next year.

  • One billion passports to get biometrics, RFID by 2015

    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.

Reviews (1)

  • First Look: Gmail

    Google's new Web mail service is free and provides a gigabyte of storage, but also raises privacy concerns. We put the beta version through its paces.

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