A leading cyber privacy campaigner is warning that corporations are incompetent when it comes protecting their customers' personal data. Simon Davies of Privacy International was responding to news revealed at the end of last week that AT&T...
The latest US initiative to tackle self-regulation of data protection, BBB Online, has come under attack from privacy groups for giving its stamp of approval to a company accused of violating federal privacy law.
Internet giants have joined forces to create a group dedicated to promoting online privacy. The group, known as Privacy Partnership 2000, includes competitors such as America Online, IBM, Microsoft and Intel.
Microsoft has confirmed it is to employ long-time privacy activist Caspar Bowden in a move that suggests Microsoft is - or at least is trying to look like it is - taking security and privacy seriously.
The Information Commission has come under more fire today from privacy campaigners flabbergasted by what they claim is the Commission's lenient stance on protecting data. Writing in the Telegraph today, Simon Davies, director of pressure group...
Over 30 civil liberties and privacy groups have demanded a suspension to the deployment of radio frequency identification (RFID) tagging systems until a number of issues surrounding the controversial technology have been addressed.