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Can You Ever Really Maintain Your Privacy?
ABC News – USA
said Jay Foley, executive director of the Identify Theft Resource Center and all-around privacy guru. “All the time.” Just last week, Sens. …
Facebook Privacy Controls Unveiled
Half Life Source – USA
The new privacy controls unveiled will allow users to preserve social distinctions between friends, family and co-workers online. The group privacy features …
Protecting Poll Privacy
Hartford Courant – United States
The old mechanical-lever machines were hard to beat for privacy. A voter entering the booth pulled a lever and became safely ensconced by three walls and a …
Hunter: Privacy? It’s a myth
Knoxville News Sentinel – Knoxville,TN,USA
There is no expectation of privacy in public. At any major intersection of any city, a camera may record your tag number, and you’re instantly convicted of …
Defibrillators open patients up to privacy risks
The Massachusetts Daily Collegian – Amherst,MA,USA
… and pacemakers have improved the odds of surviving a cardiac arrest, but the new devices may expose patients to privacy and security risks. …
Federal panel recommends patient privacy
United Press International – USA
With privacy issues in mind, for example, should a dentist have access to a patient’s records from a psychiatrist? Dr. Marc Overhage, chief executive of …
Privacy dispute outrage
Wellington Times – Wellington,New South Wales,Australia
Inmate Sharon Fitzpatrick’s privacy was allegedly breached when she was strip-searched in front of a male officer after transferring from the Dillwynia …
Privacy alarm over fingerprinting at Heathrow’s’fifth terminal
Times Online – UK
The Home Office denies having told the Spanish-owned airport operator to use fingerprinting as an extra security measure and the privacy watchdog says that …
Can you keep a medical secret?
Indianapolis Star – United States
To best protect their privacy, Overhage said, patients should pick doctors and providers they trust. “They should be confident that the providers and those …
At-home tests can offer privacy and convenience
Asbury Park Press – Asbury Park,NJ,USA
A little bit of the doctor’s office is now available in the privacy of your own home. At-home tests for pregnancy and blood sugar have been around for years …
MJ Genealogical Society – Privacy Commissioner
Discover Moose Jaw – Saskatchewan, Canada
There will be a presentation from the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner. The topic will be The Freedom of Information and Protection of …
re: Will the Inspector General Protect Your Privacy?
Lew Rockwell – Burlingame,CA,USA
Tom, I noticed that the State Department’s laughably low-tech computer system alerted the bosses if a politician’s or celebrity’s file was accessed outside …
Casino employees have privacy rights, too
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ndianapolis Star – United States
To do so would violate their constitutionally guaranteed right of privacy and possibly even their safety. The same constitutionally provided safeguards …
But Cling If You Must To The Illusion Of Privacy
InformationWeek – Manhasset,NY,USA
But my contract with TechWeb limits my self-righteousness to certain decibel levels, which, frankly is quite smart when the subject is data privacy. …
US Pres privacy breach
Sky News Australia – Australia
‘If anyone’s privacy is breached they deserve an apology at the very least.’ Senator McCain said. A full inquiry is now underway into what exactly took …
Mucca: I’ve got right to privacy
The Sun – London,UK
By EMILY SMITH HEATHER Mills made a bizarre plea for privacy yesterday as it emerged she wants her marriage secrets exposed on a money-spinning tour of US …
Passport Security Breaches Show Privacy Vulnerabilities
ACLU (press release) – New York,NY,USA
The only question is: Does the Bush administration have the will to investigate its own employees for privacy violations?” Sparapani said that if there was …
The “New Privacy“
O’Reilly Radar – Sebastopol,CA,USA
The discussion here is yet another independent confirmation of the new definition of privacy that’s emerging in American culture. …
State Dept. privacy practices seen as ‘satisfactory’ in report to …
Computerworld – Framingham,MA,USA
In that report, the State Department got a “satisfactory” rating for the quality of its Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) processes, as well as its adherence …
Passport system breach highlights shortcomings in agency privacy …
GovExec.com – Washington,DC,USA
This incident is “no great shock to the privacy community,” said Ari Schwartz, vice president and chief operating officer of the Center for Democracy and …
Help Wanted: Adults on Facebook
CNNMoney.com – USA
First, the adults: Facebook this week took on LinkedIn and other popular networking sites for working professionals with a new set of privacy controls that …
Facebook Beefs Up Privacy Options, Intros Online Chat
TMCnet – USA
By Raju Shanbhag Concerned about security for users, especially minors, social networking Web site Facebook (News – Alert) this week introduced new privacy …
Students exercise right to academic privacy
Rapid City Journal – Rapid City,SD,USA
But the 18-year old said next year, she plans to pay her own way and might take advantage of the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, …
Two sacked for Obama privacy breach
MWC News – Vancouver,Canada
Obama’s campaign has called the incident an “outrageous” invasion of privacy and demanded a full inquiry. Sean McCormack, a state department spokesman said …
NY Online Privacy Push
Huffington Post – New York,NY,USA
He told me the bill is “part of [my] long-term focus on privacy.” He’s also introduced, for instance, a constitutional amendment that would create a right …
Global Insight: Two Approaches To Privacy
RFID Solutions Online (press release) – Erie,PA,USA
The European Commission (EC) recently published a draft RFID Privacy Recommendation that, if adopted, would effectively deny the use of RFID for post sales …
Even celebs are entitled to health privacy
Los Angeles Daily News – Los Angeles,CA,USA
BRITNEY Spears might not elicit much public sympathy, but she has good reason to be upset about having her privacy violated during her January stay at UCLA …
Facebook and March Madness raise privacy concerns
Chicago Tribune – United States
If you recall, Facebook was widely criticized by privacy experts when Beacon launched because the service told your friends what you were up to on other, …
Would a National Biometric Authentication Scheme Work?
Slashdot – USA
They say the system would safeguard privacy and people’s personal data far more effectively than paper-based IDs. They also reference the troubled Real ID …
State Department warns American spectators at Olympics not to …
The Associated Press –
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department is advising Americans planning to attend the Olympics in Beijing this summer that they should take care and be …
Simon Davies (of Privacy International, and 80/20 Thinking) on Phorm
Guardian – UK
The founder of Privacy International responds to criticisms of his role in Phorm’s present publicity. The following comments come from Simon Davies, …