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From InformationWeek, Special Report: Readers Take The Offensive Against Spyware. Includes the following articles: What Is Spyware And Why Should IT Care? Readers Share Their Spyware Strategies Strategy 1: Tools, Tools, And More Tools Strategy 2: Developing Enterprisewide Strategies Download Software Recommended By Our Readers
Google Inc · S-1/A · On 8/13/4. See also this press release, dated August 18: Google Inc. Requests Effectiveness of IPO Registration Statement, which includes a link to the updated prospectus. Related reference: from kottke.org, a link of the recent interview with Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, and from the Financial Times, Comment: …
9/11 Commission Recommendations on Transportation Security, Monday, August 16 2004 – The Testimony of Thomas Kean, Chairman, 9/11 Commission: “Use of these lists [“no fly” and “automatic selectee”] should not be delayed while the argument about a successor to the CAPPS prescreening system continues. This screening function should be performed by the TSA, not the …
Web users bit by fake software – ‘Spyware’ removers frequently a scam. For reference, see Rogue/Suspect Anti-Spyware Products and Web Sites, and the Center for Democracy and Technology’s Spyware resource center that includes links to press releases and associated documents on proposed efforts, state and federal, to combat spyware.
EPIC Urges Privacy Protections for Auto Black Boxes : “In comments, EPIC urged the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to create privacy protections for “Event Data Recorders,” black boxes in vehicles that record crash data. EPIC noted that the boxes can become platforms for broader surveillance and that information collected by them should be subject …
From the Internet Pharmacy and Online Pharmacies Verification website: “To be VIPPS certified, a pharmacy must comply with the licensing and inspection requirements of their state and each state to which they dispense pharmaceuticals. In addition, pharmacies displaying the VIPPS seal have demonstrated to NABP compliance with VIPPS criteria including patient rights to privacy, authentication …
EPA progresses on online public-comment project. See Regulations.gov
From the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse: FACTA, the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act: Consumers Win Some, Lose Some and Fact Sheet No. 6: How Private Is My Credit Report? Revised August 2004.
From AP: Big-time ID Theft A Symptom of Database Culture. This article details the scope and scale of retail credit card fraud and ID theft, crimes which are registering steadily increasing statistics…a downside of the “database nation.”
ACLU press release today: “The release of the 38-page report, entitled The Surveillance-Industrial Complex: How the American Government is Conscripting Businesses and Individuals in the Construction of a Surveillance Society, marks the launch of the ACLU’s Surveillance Campaign, which is designed to regain consumers’ personal privacy rights by mobilizing people to contact prominent companies …
Computer Users Share Private Files with Their MP3s Reference: See What You Share on P2P – A Showcase of Material Found on Peer-to-Peer Networks throughout the World. Here you will find “screen shots” of documents that other P2P users are sharing.
Yahoo enhances toolbar with antispyware tool Yahoo! Toolbar
