While promoting the release of its Forefront Identity Manager product set during this week’s RSA conference in San Francisco, Microsoft announced its support for a prototype national ID card system in Germany that is designed to…
Despite the dismissal-as-foolishness that such claims often bring, security start-up vendor InZero Systems is marketing a sort of hardware proxy device that it claims is hackproof. As featured in an article in the March 8, 2010…
The recent ruling in an Italian court against three Google executives finding them criminally liable for violated Italian privacy law by allowing a video to be posted on YouTube predecessor Google Video has been widely criticized…
On February 11, aerospace giant Boeing, leading a team including Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin working for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, successfully completed the first air-to-air demonstration of the Airborne Laser Testbed (ALTB) by destroying…
It’s not everyday that you hear Facebook’s most recent changes to its privacy practices referred to in strongly positive terms (at least by people who don’t work for Facebook), but some leading advocates of more fine-grained…
In a post earlier this week, we noted that generally speaking, anyone in the U.S. wanting to take legal action over the privacy practices of social networking sites like Facebook would have to do so within…
In a public expression of concern (or actually as reported, astonishment) over Facebook’s December changes in privacy policy, default user privacy settings, and the set of user information always made public, European Commissioner for Information Society…
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