   Privacy ArchiveJuly 10, 2006Irish Challenge EU Data Retention
It's only procedural (Ireland was one of the first countries to introduce compulsory data collection for its ISPs), but it might delay European implementation of logging.
July 05, 2006Government Accountability Office Leaks Personal InfoGoogle Lists "Privacy Concerns" as Threat to Future Profitability
Its 10-Q statement includes the worry between proprietary document formats, spammers, and clickfraud.
June 26, 2006AT&T Rewrites Rules: Your Data Isn't Yours
The perils of privacy policies, as spotted by the SF Chronicle.
Template for News Stories on Government Data GatheringJune 07, 2006Anti-Trust, Anti-Privacy
ACLU asks the FCC to hold the AT&T-BellSouth merger, until the allegations of NSA data mining are investigated.
May 31, 2006Gonzales Says ISP Logging Needed in War Against Terrorism
"'We want this for terrorism,' Gonzales said, according to one person familiar with the discussion."
IBM Exploits Data Retention Laws
Sold to corporations in the U.S. for HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, but capable of far more -- IBM sees a bright future for the 56Tb "TotalStorage Data Retention 450."
May 21, 2006DaVinci Code? Try the Da Xerox Code
Make magazine documents the concealed printer dot code used by Xerox, and uncovered by EFF last year.
May 18, 2006Another Way to Register Gun Owners?Keylogging the Coworkers
Eighteen percent of companies use a keylogger (or "hacking tool") on their own staff.
May 15, 2006Journalists' Telephone Records Are Fair Game
No such thing as a private source when you use the public telephone system.
May 09, 2006Catalog of Security Bungles
Ryan Singel lists the goofs the TSA has committed in the last year, including high-flying diplomats and octogenerarian "terrorists."
Terrorist Watch List Follies and My Time in the TSA's Constitution-Free Zone
Ars Technica's Hannibal loses some rights at the airport.
April 27, 2006Can Foreign Governments Be Trusted With Your Travel Records?
Privacy International blows the whistle to the EU about US plans to re-use foreign citizens airline passenger records.
Is US Proposing a Global ID System?New Hampshire Stands Against Federal ID Cards
Will other states refuse to comply with the Real ID guidelines?
April 18, 2006Data Retention Comes to the USA
As always: Europe passes compulsory collection of ISP data, so now the US government wants it, too.
April 14, 2006Does OK Spyware Bill Give Carte Blanche to EULAs?
An Oklahoma bill would enshrine in law software's ability to root through your hard drive, if you click the "Agree" button.
Some Worries as San Francisco Goes Wireless
New York Times points to EFF's concerns with Google's pan-Francisco Wi-Fi.
Wiretapping on the Increase in EuropeApril 05, 2006Historical Precedent for EFF vs AT&T
Shayana Kadidal points to two landmark 18th century cases that mirror our wiretapping case.
March 22, 2006Court Subpoenas Deleted GMail MessagesSelf-Destructing RFIDs With Cell Phones
The kill code for RFIDs can be extracted by remote power analysis -- possibly even using a mobile phone.
FBI Pushed to Consider Warrantless Physical Searches
After 9-11, the FBI was told that "black bag jobs" could be legal, says US News.
Let the World See Your Tax Data
IRS will allow preparers to sell your tax data, says the Philadelphia Inquirer
March 17, 2006Google's Gaffe Reveals Internal Secrets
There's a delicious irony in Google formulating plans to store gigabytes of user data, and then accidentally leaking their own.
March 03, 2006Center for Democracy and Technology Releases Report on Digital Surveillance
Proposes stronger privacy protections in light of new technology.
U.C. Berkeley Deems Google Desktop 3 Unsafe
Campus security warns that "Search Across Computers" could put private data on Google's servers.
February 17, 2006Google Desktop Banned in Universities, Hospitals
Data stored at Google for any length of time is "too long", says administrators.
February 16, 2006Patriot Search
A search engine that lets you report yourself to the authorities -- before someone else does.
Anonymizer Offering Free Software to Chinese Citizens
Maybe Google and co. could expand their downloadable software collections?
February 01, 2006FCC says AT&T, Alltel apparently violated privacy requirementJanuary 31, 2006Evading the Google Eye
MIT Tech Review interviews EFF Chief Technologist Chris Palmer about how to protect your privacy.
Evading the Google Eye
MIT Tech Review interviews EFF Chief Technologist Chris Palmer about how to protect your privacy.
January 27, 2006Logging and the Law
Representative Markey proposes a bill to regulate search engine privacy.
No Results Found--Did You Mean "Sorry?"
MSN's search team gives their reasons for handing over user data to the DOJ. None-too-happy users comment.
United States Versus Google Over Search Data
Danny Sullivan's useful guide to the legal documents on Google's fight with the DOJ.
Your Face is Ours Forever
Lauren Gelman notes that Facebook sneaks itself an irrevocable, perpetual non-exclusive license to all of its student users' content.
State of the Anonymous Web
The New York Times notes the increasing interest in anonymous Net access, and gives Tor top marks.
Hacking a Bit of Google Privacy
If you worry that Google is tying your searches to your cookie, Don Marti has a Perl script for you (we do similiar proxy filtering on EFF site searches).
January 20, 2006EPIC Sues Justice Department for Surveillance Documents
The privacy group applied for an expedited Freedom of Information Act request hours after the NSA wiretapping program was revealed, and are suing to get a quick response.
January 18, 2006The Google Robot FAQ (Last update: November 1st, 2030)
"Again, we take great measures to ensure no privacy is ever invaded. Even if there is a Google Robot next to you, it doesn't mean he records everything you say. You can think of him as a quiet neighbor doing gardening work."
Christopher Hitchens vs NSA Wiretapping
A supporter of the administration's war against terror explains why he has joined the ACLU's wiretapping case.
Filtering Your Rights Away
Nart Villeneuve shows how filtering Net content--any filtering--can quickly overreach.
January 10, 2006Hoofnagle's Consumer Privacy Top 11
EPIC's Chris Hoofnagle gives a laundry list of the quickest, easiest ways you can protect your privacy.
January 09, 2006"Pretexting isn't Lying." Pretexts Cell Phone Privacy Invader
Companies that steal your phone records do so by pretending to be you. But that's not lying, apparently.
January 06, 2006Finding Subversives with Amazon Wishlists
How to data-mine with a few scripts, and a lot of publicly available data.
Reality Mining
MIT data-mining experiment shows just how much you can learn from a sprinkling of traffic data.
Telephone Call Records For Sale
Now everyone with $110 or more has the opportunity to invade privacy.
December 12, 2005UK Building a Database of Its Own Kids
Britain is planning a $400 million centralized database to hold details of every child in England and Wales.
December 08, 2005Court Checks the ID of Secret Air Travel Law
EFF founder John Gilmore gets another day in court in his fight to travel across the US without being required to show ID.
December 05, 2005Denver Rally for Bus Protestor
Davis, who was charged for not showing ID on a public bus, is being arraigned on Friday 9th: there'll be a rally outside the Denver U.S. Courthouse in support.
December 02, 2005Losing Face with FaceBook
Perceptive college article on the privacy dangers of government access to social software sites.
November 30, 2005Security Flaw Allows Wiretaps Evasion, Study Finds
Matt Blaze discovers that a tone box can turn off wiretapping equipment.
November 22, 2005EU Recording Industry Wants ISPs to Store, Hand Over Private Data
The international equivalent of the RIAA is lobbying the EU to expand data retention (an extreme power proposed to catch terrorists) to include all crimes: especially catching online infringers.
November 18, 2005Bill to Protect Identities of Women in Domestic Violence Shelters Introduced
Currently, all homeless shelters have to provide information on their clients to the federal government. Now an exception may be carved out for women who may be hiding from their partners.
November 04, 2005Echelon and Color Laser Printer Dots hit USA Today
Any solace that your privacy worries are now mainstream?
November 03, 2005The Illustrated Guide to Printer Dots
The German Financial Times provides a nice figure explaining secret color laser printer watermarks (in German, alas).
November 01, 2005Statewatch's Annotated Guide to EU Data Retention
Everything you might want to know collected in one place--just like the proposal asks.
October 24, 2005CALEA Goes to College
Schools are balking against the costs of wire-tapping their students.
October 20, 2005Identity Theft With Four Easy Keystrokes
UK politician claims Brits will be able to view - and edit - their national ID card info online using a PIN number.
October 12, 2005Hardest Job in the World
The Privacy Officer at the Department of Homeland Security steps down, after a brave but tough time.
October 06, 2005It's Hand Over Your Details to the Feds and Airlines Day
From now on, foreign and domestic travel agencies have to collect and hand over passenger information to the US government.
September 26, 2005Will the Real ID Please Stand Up?
MIT's eCitizen project has launched a blog to examine the Real ID Act.
Eurocrats Against Data Retention
The EU's privacy watchdog is not convinced that Europe's proposed mandatory data retention is necessary.
September 12, 2005Yahoo Chief Admits to Handing Over Dissident to Chinese Authorities
Yahoo says its hands were tied. For them, that's a figure of speech. For the dissident, it's just the beginning.
August 30, 2005Your Medical Records Here
Sample medical insurance leads available for purchase. Includes info. on the treatment for AIDS and your smoking habits.
Tufte on Google and Privacy
The information design guru suggests that users just might want to regularly hide their Internet Protocol (IP) addresses.
August 25, 2005Snooping con Tutti
How lax wiretapping controls in Italy make hundreds of private conversations public knowledge.
August 12, 2005ID Cards: Think Nationally, Fight Locally
James Moyer on how to persuade states to nix REAL ID.
July 15, 2005Euro Telcos: We Put the Customer Second, Right After the Big Record Companies
BT and Eircom did not oppose a request to reveal the identities of their customers by Irish record industry.
July 11, 2005Our Blogger Discrimination Policy
Reeling university professor dislikes reading the blogs of people he interviews, prefers hiring people whose weirdnesses he will only subsequently discover.
June 30, 2005The Other Kind of File Sharing
Local law officers will soon have access to the FBI database, with DEA and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms to come.
June 28, 2005120GB Hardware Drive Encryption
Nice to see a secure storage system where the user still keeps the keys.
June 22, 2005Gilbert, Sullivan, and ID Cards
A fine musical "tribute" to the plans to introduce ID cards in the UK (Flash).
June 20, 2005UK's Home Office Claims Nobody Writes to Complain About ID Cards
Only 20 people? Well, if they're lonely, *that's* easy to correct.
Feds Regularly Ping Librarians About Your Reading Habits
According to the NYT, since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a request for information comes in on an average of once a week.
June 17, 2005Gonna Get a Dell; Gotta Tell the Government Why
A Dell sales person asks what a customer is planning to do with a server, claims PATRIOT made him do it.
June 16, 2005Take My Privacy, Please!
Ted Koppell with a bit of schtick arguing that private data-collection hurts privacy more than PATRIOT.
ISPs Encouraged to Spy on Their Customers
ISPs are being pressured to retain their customer logs for use by law enforcement.
June 14, 2005Conservatives Against PATRIOT Expansion
Conservative Republican leaders are showing concern about the push to expand PATRIOT's surveillance powers.
Fisking the President
The Washington Post on the misleading numbers the President is using to justify renewal and/or expansion of PATRIOT powers.
June 11, 2005People Don't Criminally Leak Medical Secrets - "Covered Entities" Do.
The US government gets out of prosecuting individuals for selling private medical info, saying the HIPAA crime only applies if you're a bad institution.
June 03, 2005When You Search with Google, Google Searches You
Speaking of Google and privacy, CNN has an apropos piece on Google's endless data retention policy.
June 02, 2005Tor Named One of PC World's 100 Best Products of 2005
The EFF-sponsored anonymizer is one of the seven security products that made the list. We're honored.
April 28, 2005Kids Like Cattle? Deploying RFID in America
Scientific American with an editorial on the disturbing prospect of RFIDs for people-tracking.
While We're on the Subject of Karma
Whereas Verizon stood up for its customers' privacy rights, rival Comcast turned over a customer's name to the RIAA -- without court authorization. Now the customer is suing.
April 07, 2005Data-Mining Booster to Head Privacy Board
Paul Rosenzweig, a vocal proponent of the maligned & abandoned Total Information Awareness project, has been appointed to head the Department of Homeland Security's privacy board.
PATRIOT Act: 108 Sneek-N-Peeks
In hearings on the USA PATRIOT Act's sunset provisions, the Bush Administration disclosed that the Act's controversial "sneek-n-peek" searches - done without ever notifying the subject - have been conducted 108 times.
March 30, 2005Banks Forced to Come Clean on Privacy Gaffs
Federal finance agencies have issued new rules that force banks to notify customers when their private information has been exposed. That seems obvious -- right, TSA?
TSA Puts Lies in the Sky
A government report has found the Transportation Safety Administration deceived the public and Congress about its role in obtaining the personal information of 12 million air travelers.
March 29, 2005RFID Passports Broadcast Your Identity
RFIDKills.com questions the "wisdom" of placing radio frequency-IDs in US passports. The tiny chips broadcast your name, nationality, and passport number to anyone with a compatible RFID reader -- including terrorists, who would be able inconspicuously to pick American targets out of a crowd.
March 17, 2005Microsoft Making Privacy Obvious
The company is standardizing privacy notifications across its sites to encourage user comprehension. We approve.
March 16, 2005Swedish Warez Bust Reviewed for Privacy Gaffs
A recent server seizure at the Swedish ISP Banhof may have gone afoul of the country's strict privacy laws, as the computers contained personal data on more than 20,000 customers.
AOL Revises Privacy Policy for AIM
The new document will drop the "You waive any right to privacy" section.
March 09, 2005ChoicePoint Hires Privacy Chief
It's a little like hiring a quarterback *after* you lose the Super Bowl, but what do we know?
March 07, 2005Michigan Takes the Blue Pill
State law enforcement officials announced that they'll be dropping out of "Matrix," a controversial interstate crime-fighting initiatives with serious privacy problems.
March 02, 2005Gonzalez Urges PATRIOT Act Renewal in 1st Speech as AG
Not much of a surprise, but a disappointment, nonetheless.
Lowering the Bar for Digital Privacy
Bruce Schneier on how today's technical realities expose gaps in how the law protects - or fails to protect - your privacy.
Privacy Advocate Forced to Keep Feet on Ground
Great article on EFF Co-Founder John Gilmore's lawsuit over secret security laws.
Gator to Shed Crocodile Tears for Your Privacy
An executive from Claria, the spyware company formerly known as Gator, will be one of 20 people on the Department of Homeland Security's new federal privacy advisory board.
February 23, 2005ChoicePoint Scandal Exposes Flaws in Privacy Law
A recent security breach at data-collection firm ChoicePoint is highlighting the rat's nest of state and federal privacy laws that covers - or fails to cover - consumer privacy meltdowns.
February 17, 2005Suspicious Wife Uses Spyware on Husband, Breaks Law
A judge has ruled that a woman broke the law when she surreptitiously used spyware to document her husband's extramarital affair.
A Thousand National ID Proposals Bloom
Legislation in the US and abroad is aimed at creating de facto and explict national ID systems - a terrible idea in any form.
February 02, 2005The Search Engine That Knew Too Much
Did you know that Google tracks every search and the IP address from which it was made? The company may not be evil, but privacy advocates worry that the data could be abused by virtue-challenged government agencies.
January 26, 2005Aussie Nat'l ID Comes Under FireJanuary 11, 2005Wish They All Could Be California Privacy Laws
Ryan Singel on how California had a pretty good year for privacy laws in 2004.
No Warrant Needed to Search Employee Computers
A Washington appeals court has ruled that employees don't have an expectation of privacy for material stored on a work computer.
November 18, 2004Prescribing RFIDs
The tiny chips will soon be included in extra-large druggist's bottles, and they're on the way into other consumer goods.
Wal-Mart Special: 460 Terabytes of Customer DataLexmark Makes Spyware?
The printer manufacturer seems to be installing monitoring software on users' computers.
October 20, 2004Playing Politics with PATRIOT
News.com on how election-year pressures are stamping out debate on PATRIOT expansion bills.
October 19, 2004New Passports Will Broadcast Personal Data
The next generation of US passports will have embedded RFIDs, and new reports suggest that the information the chips broadcast won't be encrypted. That means anyone with an RFID reader will be able to passively scan you, pulling the most intimate personal data right out of your pocket. Unbelievable.
Online Chat with Verizon's Counsel
The Washington Post hosts a chat with Sarah Deutsch, the rock star attorney who helped Verizon protect its customers' privacy from Big Content.
October 13, 2004Supremes Decline to Hear Appeal in RIAA v. Verizon
Meaning that music companies will have to continue to obey laws that protect the privacy of Internet users.
Employers Monitor "Cyberslacking"
This article looks at the emergence of employers who spy on workers to keep them from - heaven forbid - using eBay on company time.
October 12, 2004Gov't Funds Chat Room Surveillance
The serious implications for privacy aside, we've seen some chat rooms in our day, and we're pretty sure that these findings will be *hilarious.*
"No-Fly List" Has "No Rules, Procedures"
According to CNN.com, "The 'no-fly' watch list -- billed as a post-9/11 weapon in the United States' war on terror -- lacks guidance on adding and deleting names and a method of consolidating more than a dozen lists maintained by various government agencies."
September 30, 2004VeriSign Plans to ID Your Kids Online
How do you make kids safe from Internet predators? According to VeriSign and the government-funded i-Safe, you give them hardware keys that verify their age and gender!
September 23, 2004Microsoft Would Like to See Your Registration, Sir
The OS giant is introducing a program that would require customers to provide proof-of-purchase in order to get security patches.
September 15, 2004Chicago Residents Wave Hello to Big Brother
The city recently installed 2,000 surveillance cameras throughout the city.
The Story of Your Life...
...may be digitally recorded and kept on file by the Pentagon, if you're a soldier in the Advanced Soldier Sensor Information System and Technology (ASSIST) program.
September 09, 2004Republicans Oppose National ID
From the official 2004 Republican Party Platform: "As tagging and tracking citizens is inconsistent with American freedom, we oppose the creation of a national identification card or system." We couldn't agree more.
September 08, 2004Gag-Happy Government Wants ACLU to Shut Up
The USA PATRIOT Act allows the government to issue "National Security Letters," which carry a gag-order for the recipient that prevents the disclosure that one has been received. But the DoJ has interpreted this to mean that the ACLU, in its work to examine how the letters are being (ab)used, can't publicly quote from published Supreme Court opinions or refer even vaguely to the circumstances of its case.
Government Wants Arguments About Secret Law Kept...Secret?
EFF co-founder John Gilmore is suing the government over secret laws governing airport searches and ID requirements, but the Department of Justice wants to keep the everyone - even Gilmore's lawyers - in the dark about what the rules actually say.
August 31, 2004Never Have to Ask "What Are You Wearing?" Again!
If these RFID-embedded garments ever take off, that is.
August 29, 2004Uncle Sam Goes Shopping for Big Brother
The Department of Homeland Security has given notice that it's interested in any commercially available data-mining software.
Things Google Knows About You
Thing #1: You google yourself, like, twenty times a week, right? Wrong? Oh, well - guess you'll have to read on for the real deal.
"CAPPS III" On the Way
TSA's "Secure Flight" is the heir to the much-maligned and recently cancelled CAPPS II passenger screening program. It will begin testing in the next two months.
August 04, 2004ACLU Sues to Keep Michigan Out of MATRIX
We're hoping Neo and Trinity won't have to break out the Uzis to keep Michigan residents safe from the privacy-stripping data-mining program.
July 26, 2004Libraries Invest in the Future of Surveillance
Salon explores the benefits and risks of radio frequency identification (RFID) chips in library books.
July 23, 2004Data Company Compromised Again
An Arkansas man was recently indicted for breaking into the servers of Axciom - the world's largest repository of consumer data.
Study Says People Care More About Airline Security than Personal Privacy
The real question is why we're led to believe that the two are mutually exclusive.
July 14, 2004Breaking Down Councilman
Orin Kerr has a wonderful post on why the decision is such bad news for privacy.
July 07, 2004The Law v. Email Privacy
The New York Times weighs in on recent court ruling demonstrating the vulnerability of email privacy.
June 24, 2004Yet Another TSA Cover-Up
The acting head of TSA told Congress that even more airlines were involved in secret transfers of private passenger data in 2002 and 2003. This admission raises the possibility that TSA withheld information from Congress and other government officials while violating the Privacy Act.
June 22, 2004Papers, Please
The Supreme Court recently upheld a Nevada law that makes it a crime to remain silent if a police officer asks for your identity.
June 04, 2004Iceland Supreme Court Freezes DNA Database
The court ruled that Iceland's Health Database Act violates constitutional privacy protections.
Why Google Should Be Good on Privacy
Miguel Helft puts it nicely: Google's "we're not evil" ethos led to its gutsy stand against IPO madness, so why shouldn't it apply those kind of principles to its handling of privacy?
June 03, 2004Babs Ordered to Pay Legal Fees in Bogus Privacy Suit
Ms. Streisand will pay $177,000 in legal fees after suing a retired software engineer for snapping an aerial photo of the section of California coastline where her house happens to sit.
May 25, 2004Northern Flights: Alaskans Fight CAPPS II
Four Alaskans are challenging the controversial data-mining program in federal court.
May 22, 2004U.S. Lubes Passports with RFID Snake Oil
That's the priceless headline of this Register article on the (many) problems with using RFID tags in passports.
May 18, 2004Good Idea Alert: Warrants for Data Mining
A panel convened by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is recommending a sweeping policy overhaul to protect people from privacy abuses.
May 06, 2004Used Video Game Shops Collecting Fingerprints
Laws designed to regulate pawn shops are now being used to keep tabs on people who sell DVDs and video games.
May 04, 2004Japan Rethinks Webcams in Class
Officials are nervous because parents are using the images to back up complaints against schools.
Dutch Authority Claims Piracy Data Sharing Illegal
BREIN - the Dutch entertainment industry's anti-piracy association - was recently reprimanded for sharing names, addresses, bank account numbers and IP addresses with the RIAA.
May 03, 2004CA Senate Passes RFID Privacy Bill
This is the first law we know of that explicitly addresses the privacy implications of RFID technology.
More Travel Data Fed to Feds
The Washington Post with an article on yet another late disclosure from airlines about giving up passenger information.
April 28, 2004Another Reason to Order Chinese
Collection agencies are data-mining pizza delivery databases to track down debtors.
April 22, 2004CA Senator Introduces Gmail Bill
The bill requires the "informed consent" of Gmail users before Google scans their mail.
April 20, 2004If the USPS Hired Robots to Read Your MailApril 19, 2004Bush Stumps for the PATRIOT Act
The Prez doesn't want PATRIOT's civil liberties-withering sunset provisions to expire next year.
"Personalization" Puts Web Privacy in (Even Greater) Peril
Microsoft recently released Newsbot, a "personalized" advertising/search tool that joins Google's Gmail and Amazon's A9 in the growing stable of cool tools that rely on your personal data to function.
April 18, 2004Possible Changes to Gmail? Not So Fast
Sadly, it looks like giving props to Google for considering privacy-enhancing changes to Gmail was premature.
April 16, 2004Senators Ask TSA to Come Clean
The agency has been flip-flopping over its role in a passenger data-transfer scandal.
Bad IDea
Bruce Schneier tells us why national ID cards are bad for security.
April 14, 2004GMail - the Good, the Bad and the UglyThis Just In: Another Reason to Love Google
The company is considering changes to Gmail after hearing critics' concerns - a classy move that companies make only once in a google.
April 13, 2004Microsoft Creates RFID Council
A booster club for tiny radio-tracking chips, run by a company known for its security expertise. We feel better about the little buggers already.
Bad Idea Alert: CA Lawmaker Seeks to Regulate Gmail
CA Senator Figueroa wants to do something about Gmail; we're not sure what, but we hope it's not what we think it is. We'll keep you posted.
DHS Seeks Participants for Privacy Group
The Department of Homeland Security is now accepting applications for the Data Integrity, Privacy and Interoperability Advisory Committee.
April 08, 2004Broad Coalition Asks FCC to Leave VoIP Alone
The group focused on economic arguments, opting not to comment on the FBI's request for surveillance access in VoIP services.
Unfriendly Skies: ACLU to File Suit Over No-Fly Lists
The class-action suit will challenge the lists that keep supposedly dangerous people - and those with similar names - permanently grounded.
April 07, 2004Gmail May Violate EU Privacy Laws
Not unlike a certain federal passenger-screening program we know.
France Moves Forward on "Digital Economy" Bill
The controversial legislation increases ISP liability for material that they host and lowers protections for email privacy.
April 02, 2004RIAA Gets Burned in the Sunshine State
An Orlando court ruled that the recording industry can't go after 25 P2P users - who don't know one another - with a single suit. Yet another court reminds the RIAA about that pesky "due process" concept.
Gmail Bad for Privacy? Larry Page Calls Us Crazy
But then points out that the scenarios we envision might be possible and should be investigated.
April 01, 2004Google Wants to Deliver, Read Your Mail
Their new email service reportedly will analyze its subscribers messages and display ads based on their content.
EU Grounds US Request for Passenger Data
The EU Parliament says that US requests for passenger data would violate privacy laws. Really?
March 29, 2004Wal-Mart to Miss RFID Deadline
Citing expense and RFID's technological immaturity, the world's largest retailer will miss its April 1st deadline to have RFID chips in many of the products it carries.
March 22, 2004Airlines Request Privacy Protections Before CAPPS II is Cleared for Takeoff
The list of seven "privacy principles" includes the ability for travelers to see and correct their data.
March 15, 2004TIA Hurts Privacy Even in "Death"
Two projects from Terrorism Information Awareness actually included privacy protections. Too bad they're the only ones that are still dead.
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