iPhone SMS Privacy Flaw Discovered
CNET News – San Francisco,CA,USA
Setting the iPhone to emergency call mode allows someone to see incoming text messages even if the passcode lock is turned on. A 12-year-old who uses his …
Government use of biometrics still raises privacy concerns
CNET News – San Francisco,CA,USA
But more widespread use of biometrics, especially by the government, raises substantial privacy concerns that may alarm many Americans and prove difficult …
Overplayed privacy concerns rile Symantec boss
Register – London,England,UK
By John Leyden • Get more from this author Interview Consumers ought to accept that loss of privacy is the price they pay for using internet service, …
OASIS Members Form New Committee toEnable Exchange of Healthcare …
MarketWatch – USA
The OASIS Cross-Enterprise Security and Privacy Authorization (XSPA) Technical Committee will specify healthcare profiles of existing OASIS standards to …
New health-care privacy laws heighten need for HIPAA compliance in …
Computerworld – Framingham,MA,USA
Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law two pieces of legislation that significantly increase state fines for security and privacy violations involving …
Counterterrorist Data Mining Needs Privacy Protection
InformationWeek – Manhasset,NY,USA
A National Research Council report represents an attempt to address privacy concerns that have dogged past counter-terrorist data mining programs like Total …
National Post Editorial Board: Britain mulls a society in which privacy is banned
National Post – Toronto,Ontario,Canada
The damage such a scheme would do to the personal privacy and liberty of law-abiding Britons far outweighs the benefits that might — theoretically …