The Korean government will implement a set of measures to protect young people from “illegal harmful” information. Steps […]
Category Archive: privacy
The top four U.S. broadcast networks — Viacom Inc.-owned CBS, Walt Disney Co.’s ABC, General Electric Co.-owned NBC […]
ADVISOR –Annotated Digital Video for Intelligent Surveillance and Optimised Retrieval– is a system which automates recognition, reporting and […]
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The UK government is considering to tag trash. A “clean neighbourhoods” bill should to be introduced this autumn […]
Regulations published by Athens 2004 last week dictate that spectators may be refused admission to events if they […]
Auto insurers in the United States and Britain are experimenting with programs that put monitoring devices in customers’ […]
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The Boardbug Baby and Child Monitor set enables parents to keep tabs on their child at all times. […]
Reporters Without Borders is concerned about Mojtaba Lotfi, a theologian and former journalist who was arrested and imprisoned […]
IMWatching lets you enter the screen-names of up to 40 people whose activity on AOL Instant Messenger you […]
The organisations and individuals doing the most to erode personal privacy and liberty in 2004 who have won […]
According to the Sunday Times (front page of the 25 July edition), a national database containing confidential information […]
Last week, the House of Lords, the highest court in England and Wales, decided that police will be […]
Black boxes and global positioning systems are parents’s best friends when it comes to keep tabs on their […]
Vietnam has issued a new directive to curb the online circulation of “bad and poisonous information”. Cybercafes are […]
The American Civil Liberties Union has launched a Summer Surveillance Pizza Delivery Special in which it humorously explores […]
Grupo CDW has launched in Spain earlier this month a security system for kids: the Wireless Teddy Bear. […]
Tennessee intends to launch early in 2005 a pilot project that would fit violent sex offenders with bracelets […]
In Mexico, kidnapping is rampant, crime fighting is a dangerous business and the country has seen a surge […]
The news have taught us that cameras phones are a God-given tool for Peeping Toms. Two websites dedicated […]
As Jonathan Webb –co-founder with Richard Savage of Retail In Action— admits, his company operates in a “grey […]
Future security screening systems will be based on so-called terahertz technology that can see weapons and explosives hidden […]
A Japanese community is implementing a project that would see primary school children tracked by radio frequency identification […]
Josh McHugh from Wired magazine trolleyed around the Extra Future Store, a Metro’s prototype supermarket in Rheinberg, Germany. […]
A team from Medical Automation Research Center of Virginia University has developed an assistive tool that analyzes the […]
A California bill seeking to set privacy standards for RFID technology use in the state of California was […]
Viisage’s FaceFINDER is a real-time video technology that scans crowds of people and matches individuals to selected faces […]
Nextel is offering supervisors a new service to monitor remote employees’ work time, tasks and location status. Using […]
The shortlist for 2004 UK Big Brother Awards has been released. It’s been created by Privacy International, a […]
A student girl from Naples was receiving up to 5 sms spams per day. First she complained to […]
New technologies will become more of a tool for law enforcement as government catches up to the technological […]
Call me naive (or stupid) if I have difficulties to believe that, but since everything is possible in […]
Two U.S. surveys demonstrate how leisure and work are getting increasingly connected. A report by Avaya shows that […]
The Australian Department of Immigration will build a giant database to store digital photographs, fingerprints and other biometric […]
Search marketing firm Overture has launched on Monday in the US Local Match , a service allowing advertisers […]
Reporters Without Borders has awarded this year’s Internet Freedom Prize to Chinese cyber-dissident Huang Qi, who has been […]
Message Labs discovered last week that spammers have started to use a hacking software that hides itself on […]
The Beastie Boys are sellings disks programmed to silently install DRM tracking code on Windows computers, which means […]
Chinese websites, ISPs and other Internet-related organisations across the country are being “invited” to sign a self-discipline pact […]
Precision Dynamics Corp., an automatic-identification wristband system provider based in California, has developped the AgeBand to verify that […]
Peerfactor asks Internet users to distribute on P2P networks (KaZaA, eMule, Morpheus, etc.) music, films, software or video […]