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...
Internet start-up SafeWeb has dumped its high ideals about privacy and is out to become a corporate security specialist instead. A SafeWeb spokesman defended the move as an attempt to become profitable now that it has achieved the idealistic vision...
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...
Under a headline that says "not the usual yada yada yada," the privacy warning advises users that one feature of the toolbar technology, called PageRank, could send "information about the sites you visit to Google.
When it came to privacy, the government was keen to give a little with one hand and take back a hefty wodge with the other these past 12 months. Public opinion was divided over the subject, with privacy groups up in arms, online opinion going over...
The Carnegie Mellon Usable Privacy and Security Lab (Cups) monitored the habits of people ranging in age from 18 to 71 who were given money and instructed to buy certain items online while using the search engine PrivacyFinder.org.