Misdirected spyware infects Ohio hospital
It was a bad idea from the start, but even as bad ideas go, this one went horribly wrong.
It was a bad idea from the start, but even as bad ideas go, this one went horribly wrong.
A proposed settlement between Google and book publishers and authors will give huge new advantages to students, minorities and disabled people, supporters said Thursday.
If Google digitizes the world's books, how will it keep track of what you read?
The prospective buyer of the file-sharing site The Pirate Bay is planning to implement a system that lets copyright owners remove content from the site in a quest to make it legal, Global Gaming Factory X said on Wednesday.
Reports about Palm keeping track of Pre users have shown how location services can backfire, and the importance of making users aware of how information is used.
It was supposed to be a discussion on privacy – part of Privacy Awareness Week last week in Wellington – but the audience and moderator Diane Edwards had to work to keep that focus.
LexisNexis acknowledged Friday that criminals used its information retrieval service for more than three years to gather data that was used to commit credit card fraud.
Facebook, the world's most used social-networking site, will soon move ahead with revised rules for how it operates following a row with users earlier this year.
Yahoo said Wednesday it will anonymize most of the data it collects about people's Web searches after three months, a move that could put further pressure on competitors Google and Microsoft to do the same due to privacy concerns.
A judge’s order preventing publication of the names of two defendants in a murder prosecution on the internet has been less than successful, according to Law Commissioner John Burrows.
The Privacy Commissioner is concerned about the amount of personal data being gathered by Wellington’s Snapper electronic travel and purchase card and is asking the company to rewrite its privacy policy.
Online privacy protection should be a hot topic for general public debate, says Don Hollander of the 2020 Trust, but it threatens to become locked in rarefied discussion within small specialist groups.
The $US1bn suit brought by entertainment company Viacom against Google, as the owner of YouTube, has sparked furious comment about YouTube users’ privacy being invaded, as well as more thoughtful analysis about whether an IP address can be considered “personal information”.
Debt collectors colllect huge amounts of personal data and that creates potential risks.
With the renewed focus on privacy in both New Zealand and Australia, Melbourne-based health software company TrakHealth has had to defend the approach it took to a public health patient-tracking system it recently developed for Brazil.