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Privacy breaches are shaping as the new pandemic infecting business stability, reports Conrad Walters. (more...)
Facebook?s ties to Microsoft go back to 2006 when they first signed an advertising deal. A year later they took a $240 million investment, and the advertising relationship was extended this year. Those ties may explain why Facebook was willing to ignore its own privacy policy in March 2008 and give Microsoft access to Facebook user emails. Despite shutting down Plaxo and Google products that tried to access Facebook users over privacy concerns, they were ok with sending and displaying emails to Microsoft to let users invite Facebook friends to Windows Live Messenger. (more...)
(gigaom.com) -- Within the year, cable companies are going to invade your privacy Google style. Canoe Ventures outlined its strategy today at the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco, where David Verklin, the CEO, outlined the cable industry?s answer to the competition from online video. The vision wraps compelling features for consumers around a hidden advertising and data gathering agenda. Within 100 days, better targeted advertising will be rolled out in some markets, and within the year consumers will see new features. (more...)
Fifteen American netizens have sued behavioral ad targeter NebuAd and several of its data pimping ISP partners, alleging wiretapping, packet forgery, and browser hijacking. (more...)
A new social networking site allows you to track where your friends are in the real world. But, asks lawyer Patrick Van Eecke, does this new craze for 'social mapping' take privacy law into unchartered territory? (more...)
If you think you're making a private call, or sending a discreet message, think again. Under an anti-terrorism law passed in late 2001 in the wake of the atrocities of September 11, details of every website visited and the transmission of every email sent and every phone call made in the UK can be retained and made available to authorities. This may give individuals privacy concerns but for telcos and internet service providers faced with the consequent storage and retrieval requirements, it is cause for financial concern. (more...)
Email security is about a lot more than just using a good password on your POP or IMAP server. Perhaps the most important part of email security is ensuring you don?t shoot yourself in the foot. (more...)
There are plans to deploy "black boxes" in UK ISPs? networking hubs so that the government can capture and record every website that UK citizens visit. A similar operation is in full swing in the United States, where the NSA has hooked up their own "black boxes" to American Internet Service Providers' (ISPs) networks to capture "questionable content" passing through these networks. Unlike the Americans, who only examine questionable content, the UK government is planning to develop a database to hold the contents of all messages passing along their nations? telecommunications networks. (more...)
Along with arresting newspaper editors, the state security apparatus is restricting access to websites, and the internet itself (more...)
A researcher has found that Google's JotSpot service ? which allows users to collaborate on online documents - exposes user names and email addresses to anyone on the internet. However, the search giant said the problem is due to administrator users not making the settings private. (more...)
Surveilstar(www.surveilstar.com), a new emerging monitoring software, was released and made its entrant into the field last quarter. Produced by Anvsoft Company, its name "surveilstar" is referring to the meaning of "the super star of employee surveillance solution". (more...)
For centuries adults have been deriding young people for their laziness, venality, sexuality, shallowness and lack of moral fibre. Now they've added another item to the classic list of youthful failings: a lack of respect for their own privacy. (more...)
When you look at your BlackBerry, you see a gadget full of important email, contacts and other files. Increasingly, authorities see admissible evidence. (more...)
The information commissioner has criticised the mishandling of personal data by the private and public sectors, in the light of hundreds of data breaches reported to his office over the past year. (more...)
His rant was reported by the Guardian newspaper and a debate in the blogosphere ensued. Stallman argues that users will lose control of their programs, their data and their privacy. (more...)
A new generation of digital tracking technologies can now follow your every move, unleashing a world of personalised adverts. Privacy campaigners are furious. But embracing these tools may be the only way to save the media from bankruptcy (more...)
A researcher at Microsoft's closed-door Blue Hat summit last week demonstrated how seemingly mundane information available online about an individual or a business can be used against them in a targeted attack. (more...)
Congress approved the FISA Amendments Act after a bruising battle this summer, and President Bush has signed it into law. Now comes the hard part: proving the constitutionality of the controversial law that essentially gives telephone companies legal protection from more than 40 civil lawsuits claiming the carriers provided customer telephone and e-mail records of millions of U.S. citizens--often without a warrant or subpoena--to the government. (more...)
Every year we Brits get an early Christmas present when, during the annual Queen's Speech to parliament (this year it will take place on December 3), we are allowed to know the legislation that our democratically-elected and duly accountable government, in its infinite wisdom, has decided to present for passage into law during the next session. (more...)
2008 November 02:
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2008 March 30:
The domain ProtectedSpeech.us is now available as an address
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2008 February 17:
Novo Ordo announces Sub Rosa
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2008 January 13:
Novo Ordo announces NoName
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2008 January 05:
Novo Ordo moves its servers to Panama in preparation
for new product offerings.
2007 November 10:
Novo Ordo begins alpha testing anonymous email service.
2007 October 16:
Novo Ordo goes live!