In a story that shows the widespread use of social networks around the globe, the Thailand Prime Minister’s Office has requested that the government ministry of Information, Communications and Technology monitor the use of the Hi5 social networking site by Buddhist monks. The request came after allegations that a monk used the internet to lure […]
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Daniel Solove is a George Washington University Law Professor, who specializes in information privacy law, and the author of “The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor & Privacy on the Internet”. In this interesting 30 minute interview with C-SPAN, Daniel Solove discusses a range of legal issues relating to the conflicts between freedom and privacy in […]
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Wired.com’s Threat Level blog has posted news on a white hat phone hacker that goes by Lucky225, who got into Paris Hilton’s voice mail and then called to inform her of his intrusion as well as give her helpful advice for securing her voice mail and cellphone account. Although we are not interested in giving […]
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China is close to completing a $6 billion project that involves the issuing of identity cards to its adult population by 2008. The identity cards come with RFID chips for identifying and tracking people. By the end of 2008 China will have issued between 900 million and a billion of these tracking cards to its […]
The Wired Blog Network publishes a great blog called “Threat Level”. Threat Level is an interesting blog that mixes the topics of privacy, security, political and crime news. The blog publishes timely news on security breaches, censorship, cover-ups, crime, crypto news, cyber security, forensics, computer hacks, telecommunications news, politics, privacy issues, court news etc. You […]