Biometrics: privacy concerns over scope creep
Privacy Commissioner sees risk of fear, privacy invasion and identity theft, but wants to avoid regulation
Privacy Commissioner sees risk of fear, privacy invasion and identity theft, but wants to avoid regulation
Long-suggested amendments to the Privacy Act have yet to be adopted by government and are unlikely to make it into a bill for some time.
New Zealand investigators sidestep concerns of Australia's privacy commissioner
Motive and context become relevant when publishing online
Job seekers who go to online sites to look for employment run a considerable risk of having their personal information improperly sold, shared or used for profiling purposes.
Overreaction to 9/11 is causing a swing back to privacy protection
An email to a collegue qualifies as a “private communication”, secure from unauthorised interception under the amended Crimes Act, even though the sender may reasonably expect it to be intercepted by spam filters and inhouse moderators of acceptable content, says IT lawyer Michael Wigley.
The Auckland Council for Civil Liberties has “grave concerns” over the atmosphere of increased tolerance to privacy invasion that has developed in the year since September 11.
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I find it hard to believe that in an era when we're talking about cellular networks capable of transmitting data at speeds faster than dial-up modems, when we're promoting e-commerce as a viable if not necessary activity, when cellphone penetration rates are topping out at 60% of the population, most of whom find them an everyday, can't-live-without-it device, that the Canadian government has given its security forces the right to jam their transmissions during the G8 summit to help stop protestors getting organised.
Companies that release customer data as a result of security mistakes could find themselves in the cross hairs of the US Federal Trade Commission, especially if that release points to poor security practices.
The FBI is investigating how someone made off with 13,000 credit reports from a credit reporting agency, Experian Information Solutions, during a 10-month period by posing as a Ford Motor Credit employee.
“We have deliberately not introduced more sophisticated search mechanisms"
"We applaud the decision to stop the practice"
Ihug's new pricing plan for its broadband satellite-based Ultra package has attracted a lot of attention, however its sign-up page has worried some users.