While Americans trust their physicians to keep their healthcare information private, they don't extend that same trust to computerized records systems, according to a new survey from CDW.
The Privacy Commissioner’s report into the alleged privacy breach of some four million Vodafone customers’ billing and call records has found failings on the telco’s behalf.
BARCELONA -- John Donovan, AT&T's chief technology officer, is making what he calls "creepy" and "spooky" -- but ultimately useful -- predictions for wireless computing and communications in the cloud in 2020.
According to a USA Today/Gallup Poll released this week, 70 percent of Facebook members are "somewhat" or "very concerned" about their privacy. Take into account the site's <a href="http://www.cio.com/article/508121/Facebook_Bible_Everything_You_Need_to_Know_About_Facebook?page=3">past privacy flubs</a> and it's easy to see why: a <a href="http://advice.cio.com/kristin_burnham/13740/how_to_handle_newest_facebook_privacy_breach_relax">privacy breach</a>, prevalent <a href="http://www.cio.com/article/507502">"scammy" apps</a> and <a href="http://advice.cio.com/kristin_burnham/10398/facebook_privacy_flap_it_takes_two_to_make_this_right">constant change</a> keep Facebook users on their toes.
Mozilla on Tuesday rolled out the eleventh beta of Firefox 4, adding the "Do Not Track" feature it touted three weeks ago to the browser.
U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) today proposed legislation that would make the misuse of airport body scan images a federal crime.
Facebook is threatening to take legal action against the creators of an online "dating" site that features 250,000 profiles of men and women whose photos and personal details were scraped off the social networking giant's site and used without their permission.
Who are the best people and firms at providing privacy advice? It's a question I've been asking since 2006, before privacy was cool. Since then, a plethora of new privacy rules and penalties and a tsunami of new technologies and risks have placed privacy among the top handful of corporate concerns. Doing privacy wrong now takes a bigger bite off the bottom line than it did when I first started asking this question. So have the answers changed?
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will soon begin testing new software designed to better protect the privacy of individuals passing through its full body scanners at U.S. airports.
The U.S. Department of Justice and an organization representing police chiefs from around the country renewed calls on Tuesday for legislation mandating Internet Service Providers (ISP) to retain certain customer usage data for up to two years.
A day after Mozilla said it was exploring a "Do Not Track" feature for Firefox, Google today announced a Chrome add-on that lets users opt out of tracking cookies that monitor their movement and behavior online.
Millions of e-mail addresses and passwords may have been stolen from Trapster, an online service that warns iPhone, Android and BlackBerry owners of police speed traps, the company announced yesterday.
Facebook has disabled a new capability it introduced several days ago that let users share their cell phone numbers and physical addresses with developers of applications they use on the site and with publishers of Web sites they've linked their accounts to.
After a holiday hiatus, spammers have returned to ply their trade boosting bogus products, security researchers said today.
Apple yesterday pulled an iPhone app from the App Store that let users read secret U.S. diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks and follow the controversial organization's Twitter feed.