Rights advocacy groups and security practitioners remain on opposite ends of the spectrum on the merits of sharing information as a means to improve cyber security. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center for Democracy and ...
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In what is turning out to be a repeat of last year, privacy rights groups launched an assault against the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), barely a day after the controversial legislation was reintroduced in Congress ...
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Privacy and digital rights groups are overstating the privacy concerns in a controversial cyberthreat information bill introduced this week in the U.S. Congress, the bill's sponsors and leaders of some business groups said. Groups opposed ...
Two U.S. lawmakers have reintroduced a controversial cyberthreat information-sharing bill over the objections of some privacy advocates and digital rights groups. As promised, Representatives Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican, and C.A. ...
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Digital rights and privacy advocates have welcomed Yahoo's decision to provide its users with an option to enable HTTPS (HTTP Secure) for their entire webmail sessions. "We're really happy that Yahoo! is starting 2013 right by letting ...
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Verizon's attempt -- unsuccessful so far -- to secure a patent for a so-called 'snooping technology,' which in this case would let television advertisers target individual viewers based on what they're doing or saying in front of their ...
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The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is set to host the first of several meetings seeking input for its effort to develop new codes of conduct for handling private consumer date on the Internet and mobile ...
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The US Federal Trade Commission said it had updated rules requiring online services to obtain consent from parents if they are aimed at children under 13 or know that they are collecting personal information from young children. But FTC ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office is to investigate claims that Tesco's website does not offer sufficient privacy protections to customers. The UK privacy watchdog's probe comes after security experts raised a number of privacy ...
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Computer vulnerabilities and how they can affect Americans' security are on the agenda for the U.S. Senate, and strong rhetoric is being used to support new legislation. The Cybersecurity Act of 2012 is expected to move to the Senate ...
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The U.S. Senate on Thursday failed to end debate on a comprehensive cybersecurity bill, pushing action on the bill into September and potentially killing it. The Senate voted 52-46 to end debate and move toward a final vote on the revised ...
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The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to approve the extension by five years of a controversial law, that its critics claim allows for the warrantless surveillance of electronic communications like email and phone calls of not only ...
A U.S. judge has indicated she will accept the terms of a settlement deal between Google and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, in which Google will pay a $22.5 million fine for circumventing privacy protections in Apple's Safari browser. ...
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IDG News Service-A U.S.judge has indicated she will accept the terms of a settlement deal between Google and the U.S.Federal Trade Commission,in which Google will pay a$22.5 million fine for circumventing privacy protections in Apple's ...
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IDG News Service-Notices will be sent out to developers of up to 100 mobile apps that are not compliant with California privacy law,starting with those who have the most popular apps available on mobile platforms,the office of the state's ...
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