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First, please excuse me for letting my inner Archie Bunker vent a little. If you are anything like me, then you could care less about updating your Facebook page on an hourly basis. Sure, I have a page, but maintaining it is both a bore and a chore (pardon my weak rhyming scheme). What are even wors ...

Google recently announced an approach to provide Wi-Fi Access Point owners an option to opt-out from the Google Location server, thereby addressing specific privacy concerns of certain Access Point owners, and of the users in the coverage area of specific Access Point(s). Location based services ( ...

The current phone hacking scandal has once again propelled data privacy and security issues to the top of the public agenda. While there are many calls for tighter regulation of the press in a bid to prevent any future use of such tactics, I fear such a response may be largely ineffective. ...

In a recently released report titled “Wi-Fi Positioning Systems: Beware of Unintended Consequences”  – by Ontario's Information and Privacy Commissioner, Dr. Ann Cavoukian, and Kim Cameron, a leading digital identity expert – indicates that availability of mobile device ...

We regret that we did not have space to publish this in our upcoming print edition, but we here at Infosecurity nonetheless thought it was important to provide our readers with this feedback we received recently on one of our web news items. Since it is in reference to an online item, we thought we ...

 The main legal concerns related to the cloud model are related to data protection and data security; confidentiality of the information and intellectual property; law enforcement access; cloud service providers (CSPs) professional negligence; subcontracting of cloud services and CSP change of ...

You know that I am not a big fan of the requirement for having all Internet users authenticate strongly. There are people in the security arena who think that this is the only way to fight cybercrime – and in parallel accept that they would kill freedom of speech. I recently had a good discus ...

As you might know, it was time for the Data Protection Day in Europe again. Unfortunately I did not find the videos from this year’s competition, yet but I guess we will find them later on the page and on YouTube. However, we released a study on Privacy that is pretty interesting. Find t ...

When I entered the US this time, I got a brochure on how I could avoid the line at immigration and just get a fast track by registering with the Global Entry Program, a programme, which would pre-screen me and then I just have to register with a machine by entering the US. As I understand, this is a ...