Paul W. Swansen: PrivacyArticles and stuff dealing w/ Privacy issues(Untitled)- November 27, 2002 Slashdot Book Review - Internet Site Security. Mirko Zorz writes "Internet Site Security - what a name for a book. When I first heard about it I was thinking: '1400 pages, 6 CDs,' but when the book came and I began to read through it, I realized how much good information the authors were able to fit into just over 400 pages. We all want 'big books' but with this one, the authors take a somewhat different approach, one that is less connected to software versions and that will endure in...http://radio.weblogs.com/0112897/categories/privacy/2002/11/27.html#a560 (Untitled)- November 27, 2002 The Miami Herald 11252002 In digital world, you must protect your privacy rights. People complain about the lack of privacy in our digital world, and yet they seem all too willing to give away their secrets for a pittance. Maybe it's ignorance about what they're giving away, so let's dispel some of that. I haven't seen this as much in South Florida as other parts of the country, but many stores have discount programs that require you to give the cashier a small card with a bar code as you...http://radio.weblogs.com/0112897/categories/privacy/2002/11/26.html#a544 (Untitled)- November 25, 2002 CNET NEWS.COM - Pentagon drops plan to curb Net anonymity. A Defense Department agency recently considered--and rejected--a far-reaching plan that would sharply curtail online anonymity by tagging e-mail and Web browsing with unique markers for each Internet user. The idea involved creating secure areas of the Internet that could be accessed only if a user had such a marker, called eDNA, according to a report in Friday's New York Times. eDNA grew out of a private brainstorming session that...http://radio.weblogs.com/0112897/categories/privacy/2002/11/24.html#a507 (Untitled)- November 23, 2002 Pentagon confirms development of "Big Brother" test database. "The Pentagon confirmed the development of a prototype database to track consumer and business transactions under an initiative called the Total Information Awareness Program. The goal of the project is to develop a database that will track every consumer purchase and financial transaction to look for suspicious patterns. Red flags... Lockergnome's Bits and Byteshttp://radio.weblogs.com/0112897/categories/privacy/2002/11/22.html#a490 (Untitled)- November 19, 2002 slate.msn.com - Death by Spam - The e-mail you know and love is about to vanish.. One-third of the 30 billion e-mails sent worldwide each day are spam. That's 10 billion daily pitches for herbal Viagra, Nigerian scams, and genital-enlarging creams piling up in our inboxes. Neither legislation nor litigation against spammers has stemmed the tide, and they're not going to have much of an effect in the future, either. It's time to give up: Despite the best efforts of legislators, lawyers, and...http://radio.weblogs.com/0112897/categories/privacy/2002/11/19.html#a469 (Untitled)- November 17, 2002 Privacy Groups Turn Screws on DOJ. The American Civil Liberties Union and Electronic Privacy Information Center hope a federal judge will force the Justice Department to cough up details on how it's using surveillance technology under the USA Patriot Act. By Ryan Singel. Wired Newshttp://radio.weblogs.com/0112897/categories/privacy/2002/11/17.html#a440 (Untitled)- November 14, 2002 CNET NEWS.COM - The Internet faces a free-speech test. The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear challenges to a pair of state laws that require sex offenders to register personal facts in publicly accessible databases, in a legal showdown that could set new rules for access to information in the digital age. The high court will seek to decide whether so-called Megan's laws in Alaska and Connecticut strike the correct balance between shielding a community from criminals and preserving the..http://radio.weblogs.com/0112897/categories/privacy/2002/11/14.html#a418 (Untitled)- November 14, 2002 CNET NEWS.COM - Proposed bill could jail hackers for life. A last-minute addition to a proposal for a Department of Homeland Security bill would punish malicious computer hackers with life in prison. The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday evening voted 299 to 121 to approve the bill, which would reshape large portions of the federal bureaucracy into a new department combining parts of 22 existing federal agencies, including the "Secret Service", the Coast Guard, and the FBI's National..http://radio.weblogs.com/0112897/categories/privacy/2002/11/14.html#a417 (Untitled)- November 3, 2002 PC-radio (A blast from the past) - Selling Online Privacy: Seth Godin and Jason Catlett - October 1999. Has RealAudio, Windows Media Player and MP3 feeds Privacy Digesthttp://radio.weblogs.com/0112897/categories/privacy/2002/11/03.html#a337 (Untitled)- November 1, 2002 CNN.com - Telecoms play both sides. They charge to block calls, sell dialing gadgets to marketers ... For regional phone companies like Verizon, Qwest, SBC and BellSouth, privacy services like Caller ID and Security Screen are a growing revenue source. But the phone companies aren't just trying to thwart sales calls. They're also helping telemarketers make them. Telecoms sell telemarketers high-capacity lines and sophisticated "predictive dialing" machines that have helped unleash a...http://radio.weblogs.com/0112897/categories/privacy/2002/11/01.html#a311 |