Stories tagged "privacy"

The manifold agenda of security sector reform encompasses the convergence of police, intelligence agencies and the military, threatening to melt down the division and balance of powers.

Councils are using anti-terrorism laws to spy on residents and tackle barking dogs and noisy children.

A new voting system uses the Internet, cryptography, and "magic" ink to ensure that everyone's vote is counted.

The New Jersey court said that files on a work-owned computer can be accessed and searched if the company gives permission, even if the user does not.

If there's a candidate for the worst future violator of your privacy, look no further than the company you pay for broadband.

Opposition to a new security database is gaining momentum in France as people return to work after a summer break during which the government authorized the state to store personal information on people as young as 13.

A worker who hacked into his UN diplomat boss's email account has been jailed for three months.

Major Internet companies say that they inform their customers about privacy issues through specially written policies. What they don’t say is that more often than not consumers would need college education to easily wade through the verbiage.

Google's EULA for beta web browser Chrome raises some serious issues about what Google can do with your personal information.

The end user license agreement for Google's new browser, Chrome, apparently gives the company the right to all data submitted or displayed by the browser. But the company now tells Ars it's all a big mistake and that the offending parts are being pulled