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    Big data, metadata, and traffic analysis: What the NSA is really doing

    Posted July 26, 2013 - 4:57 pm

    The NSA doesn't have to intercept and read all your messages to know what you're doing -- and neither do many Internet businesses.

  • What can employers really see on a BYOD smartphone or tablet?

    Posted July 19, 2013 - 4:18 pm

    The move to a BYOD workplace means an employee's work life and personal life coexist on a single device. As employees are asked to sign strict user policies, are they also signing away their right to privacy? Here's a look at what a company can and cannot see on personal devices.

  • Solving BYOD's privacy problem

    Posted June 24, 2013 - 2:51 pm

    The BYOD policy at a California law firm earned the CIO the nickname of Big Brother. However, the sarcasm stopped when he sprang into action and saved the day when an attorney's smartphone was swiped. The case represents the love-hate relationship workers and IT management have with BYOD.

  • Our Internet privacy is at risk -- but not dead (yet)

    Posted April 23, 2013 - 11:19 am

    Legislation, stealth technologies, and emerging data privacy markets are proving that the battle for our Internet privacy has only just begun.

  • Security through obscurity: How to cover your tracks online

    Posted November 5, 2012 - 4:26 pm

    From Tor to steganography, these six techniques will help obscure the data and traces you leave online

  • How to fight back against privacy pirates

    Posted May 7, 2012 - 7:27 am

    Have you Googled yourself lately? Is the information about you accurate or full of inconsistencies, both of which can be devastating?

  • How secure are your Facebook apps?

    Posted April 28, 2012 - 7:00 am

    How well do Facebook apps protect your privacy? Before you download something new and agree to share information, check out how Privacyscore rates its first.

  • ITwhirledRSS

    This week in pictures: Apple's new iPad arrives

    Posted March 16, 2012 - 5:16 pm

    Also: Congress wants more privacy details from Apple, Big Brother (NSA) gets bigger ears, AI program 'Angelina' builds video games, the FBI asks Google for help breaking into a pimp's Android phone, and much, much more!

  • What is deep packet inspection?

    Posted February 1, 2012 - 4:40 pm

    It's easy to turn a deaf ear to the controversy surrounding recent copyright protection bills like the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) or the PROTECT IP Act, which threatened to curtail free speech on the Internet by allowing the U.S. Department of Justice to blacklist and block access to websites suspected of copyright infringement. Most of us don't visit websites suspected of illegally distributing copyrighted material, so blocking us from accessing them seems harmless. But should your ISP ever be legally obligated to prevent you from accessing restricted websites, it will have to find a way to monitor your online activity, and that could cause your

  • Are you at risk? What cybercriminals do with your personal data

    Posted January 26, 2012 - 2:49 pm

    When hackers attack a company's systems and steal your personal data, what risk does that pose to you and other victims? How much is your name and email address worth to cybercriminals anyway? Here's what's really at stake.

  • 5 hot technology policy agenda items you need to watch

    Posted January 6, 2012 - 8:55 am

    From providing more spectrum space for wireless providers to battling online piracy to creating cybersecurity policy to protecting intellectual property, expect things to heat up in Washington this year. So pour yourself a cup of coffee and read on to learn how lawmakers will impact the tech world in the year ahead. .

  • ITwhirledRSS

    Down and out in EULA-ville

    Posted November 17, 2011 - 11:59 am

    End user license agreements are extremely long, terribly hard to grasp, and written to cover so many aspects of every single way you might use this thing you're just starting to use that it's both humorous and pointless in its incomprehensibility. But they can get you in a mess of trouble. Is there any way out of this foggy morass?

  • ITwhirledRSS

    Google's 5 biggest hits (and misses)

    Posted September 26, 2011 - 10:29 am

    It's not all lying and spying in Googleland. The search/advertising giant wouldn't be the behemoth it is today if it didn't do a few things right.

  • What your IT pro knows about you

    Posted July 11, 2011 - 10:32 am

    For many small companies, the IT staff is a single person or even a consultant brought in to handle the business's computing upkeep. Either way, the question of what your IT person knows about the inner workings of the company is well worth asking -- because the IT person may know far more about your company, employees, and personal information than you ever thought possible.

  • Survey: The best privacy advisers of 2010

    Posted February 7, 2011 - 11:38 am

    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?

  • Top 12 tech embarrassments of 2010

    Posted December 22, 2010 - 11:55 am

    The year in tech had plenty of highs -- and plenty of lows. Here are 12 mortifying moments we won't soon forget.

  • Top 10 stories of 2010: Living in the post-PC world

    Posted December 7, 2010 - 10:32 am

    The top stories of 2010 show that the PC for many people around the world has already become just one of several devices used to tap the Internet and a world of applications for entertainment and business -- and that increasingly, the main Internet access device is not a PC.

  • The paranoid's guide to facebook

    Posted November 17, 2010 - 3:02 pm

    Over half a billion people use Facebook around the world. It is the single largest phenomenon of human connection in history, not to mention the biggest thing ever to hit the Web, and a source of enjoyment for millions. But it's becoming more and more of a love-hate relationship. We love using Facebook and other online social networks, but we hate the ever-increasing privacy and security concerns.

  • Privacy advocates fear massive fed health database

    Posted November 4, 2010 - 11:28 am

    The U.S. Office of Personnel Management wants to collect (and store) healthcare claims of millions of Americans. How concerned about privacy should you be?

  • Security laws, regulations and guidelines directory

    Posted November 3, 2010 - 1:16 pm

    This directory includes laws, regulations and industry guidelines with significant security and privacy impact and requirements. Each entry includes a link to the full text of the law or reg as well as information about what and who is covered.

  • The 25 Worst High-Tech Habits (and How to Fix Them)

    Posted November 1, 2010 - 11:12 am

    Good citizens of technological America, this story is not for you.

  • 5 comments from Google's CEO on privacy

    Posted October 26, 2010 - 9:50 pm

    Google CEO Eric Schmidt is getting a lot of attention lately, not so much for the company's ubiquitous search engine, but for what he has been saying about privacy.

  • The Intimate Social Graph

    Posted October 14, 2010 - 11:02 am

    The privacy of the intimate social graph rests on the vagaries of localized judicial interpretations of a creaky 24-year-old law.

  • Location-Based Services: 5 Myths Debunked

    Posted August 25, 2010 - 9:07 am

    With location-based services such as Facebook's Places come many misconceptions about risks. Here's a look at what's true and false regarding location-based technology.

  • IT pros: Lurking legal gotchas and how to avoid them

    Posted July 19, 2010 - 10:34 am

    Ignorance and seemingly innocent activities can subject you to fines, lawsuits, and even jail. Here's how to play it safe.
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