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UK Government Postpones Controversial Mother Of All Databases

Desire Athow — Thu, 16 Oct 2008

The Home Secretary may be carving in to growing demands to reconsider rolling out a scheme that would pave the way for a gigantic database and said that the law will be debated in 2009, rather than for the end of this year

Tor for Windows 0.2.1.6 Alpha

Desire Athow — Wed, 08 Oct 2008

Tor is a toolset for organizations and people that want to improve their safety and security on the Internet. Using Tor can help you anonymize Web browsing and publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and other applications that use the TCP protocol

T-Mobile Loses Data Of 17 million Customers But No Bank Details

Desire Athow — Mon, 06 Oct 2008

In a startling revelation T-Mobile has admitted that it lost records of nearly 17 million German customers which contained their personal details including email addresses and phone numbers

Average privacy policy takes 10 minutes to read, research finds

Team Outlaw — Mon, 06 Oct 2008

Website privacy policies take on average 10 minutes to read and sometimes run into thousands of words, researchers have found. While some are short, others would take over half an hour to read, researchers said

BT Starts New Trial Of Phorm Ad Tracker System Tomorrow

Desire Athow — Mon, 29 Sep 2008

BT will start running a new trial of the often decried Phorm scheme also known as BT Webwise with customers being "selected" on an anonymous basis to participate in the trial via a specially setup webpage that will appear as soon as they open their web browser

Controversy Still Hampers Phorm Technology As Police Drops Investigation

Desire Athow — Fri, 26 Sep 2008

The City of London Police have decided to drop their investigations into BT and Phorm over secret trials of the controversial ad-monitoring and tracking system last year, arguing that no criminal offence had taken place

Company Internet Explorer snooping made easy

Steve Gold — Thu, 25 Sep 2008

Interesting to see Bill Detwiler over at TechRepublic making a video on how to easily investigate reports of inappropriate usage of the Web within companies

German Net usage is changing people's sex lives

Steve Gold — Tue, 23 Sep 2008

I was quite intrigued to read in yesterday's Daily Telegraph about how a survey amongst Germans has revealed that porn is changing people's sex lives in ways that could never have been foreseen.

Privacy chief approves of sharing criminal records if privacy beefed-up

Team Outlaw — Mon, 22 Sep 2008

Europe's privacy regulator has said that he will back a pan-European criminal records system only if specific data protection measures are put in place. Because the system deals with crime and security, EU data protection law does not currently apply to it

Porn surfers move on up to social networking says Aussie author

Steve Gold — Thu, 18 Sep 2008

I was more than a little intrigued to read last night that Bill Tancer - a well-known Internet guru in Australia (it says here) - says that down-under Netters are eschewing Internet porn in favour of social networking sites.