Privacy
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Articles about Privacy
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Survey says: People do care about their privacy
Finally, someone asked users how important it was to remain private while online. Michael Kassner shares what the research team found, including some surprises.
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Ashkan Soltani introduces MobileScope, an innovative approach to online privacy
There's a lot of debate taking place on how to guarantee online privacy -- but few user-ready solutions. Michael Kassner talks to Ashkan Soltani about a new tool called MobileScope that may change tha...
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Privacy law will bury us under paper mountain, warns data watchdog
The UK's privacy tsar Christopher Graham has said that proposed EU legislation will bury his office in paperwork and restrict its ability to guard against serious misuse of personal data.
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Mobile privacy: Cover yourself, even if users tend not to do likewise
A lesson app developers can learn from the Path privacy kerfuffle is that confirming every data access event is probably a smart move.
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One policy, one Google experience, even more declarations of evil
As soon as you connect a device to the Internet, you are tracked, cataloged, and targeted with "appropriate" advertising. Is that really evil?
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Don't miss developments from Linux.conf.au 2012
TechRepublic Australia is has been covering the Linux.conf.au 2012 conference in Ballarat this week. Here's the low-down on some very provocative sessions.
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Top 10 IT Security posts of 2011
Here are the topics that made the Top 10 list of most-read security posts in 2011.
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Tutorial: SemanticScuttle advanced tips and tricks
Marco Fioretti follows up on his introductory tutorial for SemanticScuttle with some handy tips and tricks for using it even more effectively to store and organize bookmarks online.
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Balancing the needs for online advertising and privacy
Michael Kassner gets schooled on issues surrounding the advertising versus privacy debate. It's not as black and white as you might think.
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And now, an important message from Anonymous
Anonymous has declared war on Facebook with a video that threatens some kind of operation on November 5, 2011. Cyberthreat or PSA about guarding your privacy with more zeal?
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Facebook is not the real privacy threat
Facebook is certainly a good example of a bad approach to privacy policy, but the dangers of Facebook depend entirely on our own failures.
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The privacy covenant is an illusion: How to regain control
Agreement to share information in exchange for protection or services has become an irrelevant formality. Wouldn't it be nice if we could claim enough of a position of strength to make our choice to g...
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When does the group Anonymous go too far?
In this guest post, a TechRepublic member questions whether Anonymous is a harmless bunch of script kiddies involved in petty internet pranking or a dangerous group that's detrimental to the principle...
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The difference between secrecy and privacy as security concepts
WikiLeaks is not the danger to national security that many people think it is. It is merely the superficial manifestation of the real danger: the naive belief that secrecy is security.
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Roundtable discussion: Company-issued phones and liabililty
When a police officer is reprimanded for using a department-issued phone for sexting. This is a legal argument that is sure to raise its head much more. Read what our roundtable of experts has to say.
