‘Privacy’ Archives
Irate parents in Pa. say schools use 'peeping tom technology'
FBI investigates, federal prosecutors subpoena documents in MacBook spying case, say reports. The parents of a Pennsylvania high school student have asked a federal judge to bar school district personnel from switching on cameras in school-issued MacBook laptops, calling the security feature "peeping tom technology." In their motion Friday, [...]
ID Theft: Don't Take It Personally
A new study shows that banks, not consumer victims, are increasingly feeling the pain of digital fraud. Identity theft often feels less like a random act of fraud than a personal breach of a victim's secrets. But while consumers feel the sting from having their private data stolen, it's their banks that are increasingly picking up the [...]
Google Hack Raises Serious Concerns
A coordinated hacking campaign targeting Google, Adobe Systems and more than 30 other companies raises serious concerns, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday. In a statement released late Tuesday night, Clinton said that the U.S. government is taking the attack -- which Google said came from China -- very seriously. "We have [...]
Body Scanners Not 'magic technology' Against Terror
The full-body scanning technology being adopted and discussed since the attempt to take down a passenger plane on Christmas Day isn't a "magic machine" that will solve aviation security issues, experts say. "Regardless of the sophistication of the piece of technology, if you can collect the information on how it works and what its technical [...]
The Pirate Bay's Heir Apparent
As the world's biggest file-sharing sites clean up or shut down, all eyes are on Isohunt. The world of peer-to-peer piracy is in turmoil. In April, copyright-flouting icon the Pirate Bay was ordered by a Swedish court to shut down its file-sharing service, and last week the second largest file-sharing destination, Mininova, announced that it [...]
Students and Educators in the World of Digital Citizenship
Digital Citizenship is a concept which helps teachers, technology leaders and parents to understand what students/children/technology users should know to use technology appropriately. Digital Citizenship is more than just a teaching tool; it is a way to prepare students/technology users for a society full of technology. Too often we are seeing [...]
Experts ask Google to Boost Privacy
More than three dozen security and privacy advocates and researchers are asking Google to offer better data protection for users of Gmail and other Google apps and Google said on Tuesday that it is considering doing that, if it does not slow down the apps too much. Users currently can set Gmail to encrypt their session data by default, to protect [...]
