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- Google, CDT call for more searchable government
- It's time -- high time -- for government agencies to make their websites much more friendly to web search engines. That's what Google and Wikipedia plan to tell a homeland security Senate committee Tuesday, according to the Washington Post. The Center for Democracy and Technology and...
- Tags: Google Inc., Search Engine, Agency, Privacy, Center For Democracy And Technology, Wikipedia, OMB, Advertising & Promotion, Government, Wiki, Marketing, Online Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- IRS plan for sites to report sales data troubles privacy advocates
- President Bush is proposing that websites like eBay be required to collect personal data on their customers and share it with the IRS. The Center for Democracy and Technology is trying to rally opposition to the measure, ComputerWorld reports. The move is part of an effort by the U.S....
- Tags: IRS, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- Census Bureau posted personal info of 63,000 people
- This may come as surprise to no one but the Census Bureau inadvertently posted on a public Web site the Social Security numbers of 63,000 people who received financial aid, census officials reports the Washington Post. Although the Social Security numbers were removed from the site, there are still...
- Tags: Security, Privacy, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- Canada, Mexico travel cards under privacy attack
- Canada, Mexico travel cards under privacy attackRID and CheckoutMy grocery clerk told me that eventually I would be able to pass my basket over the counter and everything in the basket would be itemize and tabulated. It was a reason she was retiring. But I can not wait. I want...
- Tags: U.S. Government, RFID, card
- Discussion threads 2007-04-23
- AT&T hack exposes 19,000 identities
- AT&T hack exposes 19,000 identitiesAnd yes the sheepcontinue to accept mediocrity when it comes to their personal data! But hey! They got their nice shiny new cell phone! ]:)What system architecture?I am rather curious because I am guessing that AT&T are not using Windows for their commerce servers.You mean CRACKERS?Please...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Cable, Network technology, AT&T Corp., privacy policy
- Discussion threads 2006-08-29
- VA data in hard-to-read format
- It looks like those thieves of the VA data may have a harder time than expected accessing that data. The Post reports that the social security numbers of 26.5 million vets was stored in a standard format that requires special software and training to access. An internal memo written...
- Tags: Social Security, SECURITY, Mark Whitney
- Blog posts 2006-06-01
- NYU spyware workshop
- This looks to be a great event and I wish I was going to be there, but I don't think that will happen. Details here. It's on March 16-17 at Furman Hall on the campus of New York University School of Law. The March 16 session, "Spyware in Context"...
- Tags: spyware
- Blog posts 2006-02-28
- Anti-Spyware Coalition workshop and other news
- Where did the time go? My apologies for the lack of blogging. I've been traveling and without internet access part of the time. I was all set to blog last night and the internet connection went down at the hotel where I'm staying. At any rate, hopefully...
- Tags: spyware, workshop
- Blog posts 2006-02-14
- CDT pulls the trigger on 180solutions and CJB.net for deceptive and unfair business practices
- The Center for Democracy & Technology CDT has just announced complaints filed with the Federal Trade Commission FTC against adware company 180solutions and its partner CJB.net. From the press release, which can be found here PDF:In a detailed complaint, CDT outlines a pattern whereby 180Solutions, through a complicated web of...
- Tags: CJB.net, 180Solutions
- Blog posts 2006-01-23
- Anti-Spyware Coalition news
- The Anti-Spyware Coalition has announced the final agenda for the public workshop to be held on February 9, 2006 in Washington, DC. I’m really excited about this workshop, especially since I’m on a panel. The speakers include important folks like Deborah Majoras Platt, the Chairman of the FTC, Susannah...
- Tags: spyware, anti-spyware
- Blog posts 2006-01-19
- NSA places illegal cookies on computers
- Coming on the heels of spying and evesdropping authorized by the administration, the NSA has been accused of illegally placing "cookies" on visitors' computers to track their web surfing.Newsday reports: "Considering the surveillance power the NSA has, cookies are not exactly a major concern," said Ari Schwartz, associate director at...
- Tags: NSA
- Blog posts 2005-12-28
- Sony's DRM software called spyware by antivirus vendor
- Well, isn't this interesting. Antivirus vendor Kaspersky has labeled Sony's rootkit technology, used in copyright protection software on some CDs, as spyware. ZDNet writer Matt Loney explains more in his write up. On the Kaspersky Analyst's Diary at Viruslist.com, roel wrote on November 2:In short, Sony BMG...
- Tags: software, Mark Russinovich, Sony Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-11-04
- Spyware tricks part II: follow the money trail
- Yesterday I wrote about my experience with spyware installations and noted that spyware pushers are using more devious methods to foist their software on users and making it increasingly difficult to remove. I asked what is spyware about. The answer: money. Let's examine the money trail. Ben...
- Tags: spyware
- Blog posts 2005-09-20
- Group delivers definition of spyware
- Group delivers definition of spywareI am so much relieved now that they defined it....``The group, made up of makers of anti-spyware software, will release a proposed definition of spyware and a common lexicon, said Ari Schwartz, an associate director at the Center for Democracy and Technology, which has led the...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, spyware, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-07-12
- From the ashes of COAST
- A new coalition of antispyware companies, called the Anti-Spyware Coalition, has formed, and I think it has a decent chance of success. It won't suffer the fate of COAST because it's not going to admit adware makers as members, limiting groups that can be members to antispyware companies, consumer watchdogs,...
- Tags: Coast, spyware, anti-spyware
- Blog posts 2005-06-06
- The missing glue in the fight against malware
- While at Interop in Las Vegas, I was treated to dinner by representatives of Tenebril, developers of the anti-spyware product SpyCatcher. At the table to convince me that the practically unknown security solution provider is a player to be reckoned with in the anti-spyware market were its newly installed...
- Tags: Tenebril, Zone Labs Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-05-09
- The remedy for spyware--not anytime soon, part II
- Updated 5/16: Yesterday I blogged the early morning session of the CNET Download.com-hosted spyware event (MP3 files of all the panel discussions are here--registration required), concluding that the two sides--adware/spyware purveyors and their antitheses--are not far along in formulating a truce that would reduce at least the non-rogue/organized crime induced...
- Tags: Claria Corp., adware
- Blog posts 2005-05-04
- Spyware bill moves to Senate
- Spyware bill moves to Senateabout timehope it bites as well as it barks - 10 -15 years in prision for in ceoexec oking the development of this stuff, same for the developerit should be treated as a virustrojan as that is exactly what it isWon't do any good...Most Spyware...keylogging, password...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, U.S. Senate, spyware, Schwartz
- Discussion threads 2004-09-22
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