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IT trainer offers master's degree for hackers
In an effort to produce the next generation of chief security officers and IT systems defense experts, an online training company is offering a new master's degree program in security science.

Indian Hotmail users invited to express themselves
Microsoft unveiled over 250 custom domain names on Thursday that will allow Indian users of Windows Live Hotmail to choose personalized e-mail addresses that reflect the name of their favorite town in India, their favorite sport, movie and sports celebrities, and even their personality.
September 27, 5:54 a.m. PDT

Security experts pitch 'culture of data'
The companies that are having the most success in advancing their data security efforts today are those that are finding a way to protect sensitive information without getting in the way of business users, industry experts maintain.
September 25, 2:53 p.m. PDT

Google calls for global online privacy standard
Search giant Google will propose on Friday that governments and technology companies create a transnational privacy policy to address growing concerns over how personal data is handled across the Internet.
September 14, 6:12 a.m. PDT

Keyloggers proposed to fight terrorism in cybercafes
An organization in Mumbai, India, has proposed that police use key-logging software at cybercafes to keep track of communications between terrorists.
September 12, 6:12 a.m. PDT

Forrester security show stresses risk management
Enterprise security decision makers have long been more likely to be swayed by flashy new technologies than by the notion of comprehensive IT restructuring to protect data and other corporate assets, but the situation is evolving rapidly, according to experts participating in Forrester Research's ongoing Security Forum.
September 5, 11:33 a.m. PDT

FBI: Enterprises need counterintelligence
The Chinese government has denied involvement in a series of hacks carried out against IT systems at the Pentagon in June this week, but the threat of technology-driven espionage has forced the FBI to push businesses and academic institutions to better prepare for such attacks.
September 4, 3:45 p.m. PDT

Get paranoid: Information brokers are bungling your data
Anybody who requests a background or credit check on you -- or provides them to others -- has a ton of sensitive information about you that (a) may not be accurate and (b) is highly vulnerable to spills. That includes data brokers, credit bureaus, banks, insurance companies, cell carriers, and your employer.
August 27, 3:00 a.m. PDT

Get paranoid: Zombies abound
We are in the midst of a zombie epidemic that shows no signs of slowing. During the second half of July, the volume of spam e-mails containing variations on the Storm worm increased tenfold. The result? A zombie network estimated by IT security company SecureWorks at more than 1.7 million PCs -- big enough to do serious damage to the Net.
August 27, 3:00 a.m. PDT

Get paranoid: Your Wi-Fi net is wide open
Got a secure Wi-Fi connection? Good for you. But your neighbors may not be so lucky.
August 27, 3:00 a.m. PDT

Get paranoid: The Feds are on your tail
If the National Security Agency is spying on you, you're probably connected in some way to a terrorist investigation -- even if it's just because you invited your neighbor Ahmed over for a barbecue.
August 27, 3:00 a.m. PDT

Get paranoid: Google knows what you searched last summer
Not long ago, Google was the cuddly search engine that could. Now it's a bona fide data monster, and your personal information is its meat.
August 27, 3:00 a.m. PDT

Get paranoid: Your boss is watching
Ever get the feeling your boss -- or your boss's IT department -- is lurking through the network, spying on you? Odds are quite good your instinct is right. And the bigger the organization, the more likely it monitors employees' e-mail, IM, or Web surfing.
August 27, 3:00 a.m. PDT

Get paranoid: You are your own worst enemy
Got a MySpace page? LinkedIn résumé? Facebook profile?
August 27, 3:00 a.m. PDT

Get paranoid: There's a spook in your inbox
Remember when the CIA was a dark, malevolent force lurking in the shadows of our lives, tapping our phones, reading our mail, and planting explosive devices in Castro's cigars? Well, they're baaaack. Only now it's the National Security Agency, and they're snooping into your e-mail, cell phone conversations, and Lord knows what else.
August 27, 3:00 a.m. PDT

Get paranoid: Hollywood wants to terminate you
No, the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America aren't spying on you. They've got people for that, specifically companies such as BayTSP and SafeMedia, which infiltrate peer-to-peer networks so they can record file swappers' IP addresses and the types and number of files they're sharing. An IP address isn't proof positive of your identity, but it's good enough for most civil suits -- unless, of course, it belongs to a dead person or someone who doesn't actually own a computer.
August 27, 3:00 a.m. PDT

Get paranoid: Your ISP knows too much
If you think Google knows more about you than your parents do, imagine the kind of dope your ISP could drop if pushed to give up the goods.
August 27, 3:00 a.m. PDT

Pundits on parade: What’s next in tech
You’ve heard of Christmas in July, that classic advertising gimmick designed to lure shoppers into stores despite the oppressive heat and humidity. We’ll, we’ve got New Year’s in August, which invites you to stay indoors and read “The next big things in IT” -- 15 predictions about the future of technology.
August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT

Government-industry security group expands
The Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program (TSCP), an IT security standards consortium that includes heavyweights such as the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and many of the largest government contractors in the world, is looking to broaden its ranks.
August 14, 1:15 p.m. PDT

Study: Search engine privacy policies improving
Search-engine providers have begun to compete with each other on privacy protections, but the U.S. still needs to adopt a national privacy law, says a report from the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT).
August 8, 11:35 a.m. PDT

Taunting the CIO
The Wall Street Journal on Monday ran a special section whose lead article was headlined "Ten Things Your IT Department Won't Tell You." The image on the section cover showed a white-shirted IT guy clutching a keyboard and a tangle of Ethernet cables, looking straight at the reader, with duct tape over his mouth.
August 2, 3:00 a.m. PDT

U.S. spying raises new privacy fears
With confirmation from the national intelligence chief that a domestic spying program extends beyond tapping e-mails and phone calls into other kinds of surveillance, attention is turning to the administration's data mining and other clandestine technologies that could be used against people in the United States.
August 1, 2:22 p.m. PDT

Apps security to dominate Black Hat
Black Hat kicks off this week in Las Vegas with a big shift in focus from Internet viruses to application security.
July 31, 3:00 a.m. PDT

Recovering from identity theft
Our government is working hard to reassure us that identity theft is a figment of our imaginations, but if you’re a victim in one of those not-so-imaginary crimes, there are proactive steps you can take.
July 27, 3:00 a.m. PDT

Microsoft, Ask.com pressure Google on privacy
Microsoft is joining Ask.com in offering new privacy features for Web searchers, and the two companies are now calling on the search and online advertising industry to develop a common set of privacy practices.
July 23, 4:14 a.m. PDT

Identity theft? What identity theft?
Whew! We can relax.
July 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT

Texas state Web site leaks sensitive information
Troy Aikman may not be happy about it, but the State of Texas has made his address and social security number available via the Internet.
July 19, 4:52 a.m. PDT

Health experts: E-health records privacy rules needed
The U.S. needs new medical privacy rules as the country moves toward greater use of IT to store health records, a group of health-care experts said Wednesday.
July 18, 9:01 a.m. PDT

Anti-phishing techniques for the real world
I need to expand my idea of a secure computing ecosystem into the real world. Let me explain.
July 13, 3:00 a.m. PDT

Mounting scrutiny for Google security
Much as the ubiquity of Microsoft's Windows operating system and Office productivity tools has made the software giant a focal point of security research, search giant Google is facing new scrutiny as it diversifies its products and moves further into the business environment.
July 12, 4:24 p.m. PDT

Court dismisses lawsuit against U.S. wiretapping
A U.S. appeals court has ordered that a lawsuit against the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) for a wiretapping program be dismissed because the plaintiffs haven't been hurt by the agency's actions.
July 6, 9:06 a.m. PDT

EU clears Swift to continue giving banking data to US
Financial data transfer company Swift can continue to pass details of European citizens' transactions to U.S. authorities provided the firm signs a formal get-out clause granting it immunity from European data protection laws, the European Commission said Thursday.
June 28, 8:05 a.m. PDT

US, EU close to signing passenger data accord
The European Union has reached a preliminary agreement in the long-running dispute over the handling of personal data about E.U. citizens flying to the U.S., a European Commission spokesman said Thursday.
June 28, 6:56 a.m. PDT

Quickly discover sensitive content
Monitoring systems on the central LAN for personal and proprietary data – something industry analysts estimate 86 percent of companies must do to comply with one or more regulations, such as GLBA, HIPAA, and Sarbanes-Oxley – is already an enormous challenge. Then consider the extra complexities introduced as this content sprawls to remote offices and partner locations.
June 26, 3:00 a.m. PDT

SurfSafe vendor, Washington state settle suit for $1M
The operator of two computer privacy services has agreed to pay up to $1 million in refunds to customers to settle charges of using deceptive marketing techniques and selling the customer's personal information.
June 21, 12:10 p.m. PDT

Update: Security risks prompt French BlackBerry ban
French government members and their advisors have been told not to use BlackBerry smartphones, for national security reasons. The ban on BlackBerry devices is just one of the IT challenges facing new National Assembly members as they take their seats following Sunday's elections.
June 20, 8:57 a.m. PDT

U.S. may give ground in passenger data stand-off
The U.S. may be willing to give some ground in a dispute with European regulators over access to trans-Atlantic passenger data, although reaching a compromise before a July deadline remains uncertain.
June 14, 10:32 a.m. PDT

US may require European visitors to register online
Europeans who visit the U.S. will be required to fill out an online questionnaire two days before they enter the country under a proposal being studied by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
June 14, 8:48 a.m. PDT

Diagnosing health care IT
A few weeks ago I stirred up a heap of contention with my column “RIP, electronic medical records?” about the battle at Kaiser Permanente over its pioneering health care digitization megaproject. The comments posted on the column by readers were like an instant replay of the finger pointing and armchair quarterbacking that’s apparently been going on inside that organization -- an interesting skirmish that showed the passion flaring on all sides of this issue.
June 14, 3:00 a.m. PDT

Google adjusts privacy policy -- slightly
Google has decided to make the data it stores about end-users anonymous in its server logs after 18 months, according to a blog posted Monday by the company's global privacy counsel.
June 12, 10:31 a.m. PDT

Euro data protection chief backs Google
Data protection officials from 27 European countries have warned Google it is storing data on people's searches for too long -- but Europe's top privacy guardian, the European Data Protection Supervisor Peter Hustinx, believes Google's efforts to respect the privacy of European citizens in its Internet search software "is not just window dressing."
May 25, 7:29 a.m. PDT

Deepwater churns around unencrypted data
The most sensitive and highly classified data communicated over the nation's internal computer networks remains at risk for exposure, according to key witnesses in the government's investigation into the United States Coast Guard's Deepwater procurement program.
May 17, 11:33 a.m. PDT

Social Security, spyware bills go to House vote
The House Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously approved a pair of bills on May 10 that aim to bolster consumers' protection against misuse of their social security numbers and computer-borne spyware.
May 11, 11:23 a.m. PDT

Building trust in downloads no simple feat
The Truste group's goal of creating an online ecosystem through which software makers are held accountable for the functions of their programs and end users are given the power to keep unwanted applications off their devices won't be achieved easily, according to security researchers and participants in the nonprofit's Trusted Downloads project.
May 10, 5:04 p.m. PDT

Update: Verio to shut off controversial Web site
Privacy advocates are concerned that a move by Verio to stop hosting a controversial Web site points to a growing control of the Web by big business and governments.
April 30, 10:51 p.m. PDT

EU police data-sharing plan draws criticism
Plans by several European Union members states to establish a system for sharing police data have drawn criticism from the region's data-protection watchdog.
April 19, 7:42 a.m. PDT

Yahoo sued over jailing of Chinese dissident
The wife of an imprisoned Chinese dissident has sued Yahoo for divulging information about her husband's Internet activity, which allegedly led to his arrest and torture.
April 19, 4:25 a.m. PDT

Large enterprises still serving up spam
Well-known enterprise companies are still having their IT systems hijacked by spammers despite investing in many different types of technologies aimed at stopping the problem.
April 17, 3:04 p.m. PDT

Bottom line impact of data breaches unclear
Despite the fact that unwanted exposure of consumer data has become a hot-button issue in the media and among legislators nationwide, experts admit that it remains unclear just how much damage the events will cause to the finances and reputations of companies that experience major incidents.
April 13, 3:01 p.m. PDT

Debate lingers over federal data-handling laws
Even as the federal government appears poised to create new consumer data protection laws in 2007, businesses and privacy advocates in the United States remain at odds over the parameters of such legislation and its potential impact.
April 3, 6:59 p.m. PDT

ShmooCon hacker event gets under way
The third annual ShmooCon convention kicked off in Washington, D.C., on March 23 and will run throughout the weekend with a series of lectures and presentations covering a wide range of enterprise security issues.
March 23, 2:12 p.m. PST

TJX stolen data used in Florida crime spree
Law enforcement officials in Florida have arrested six individuals suspected of carrying out a fraud scheme built around the misuse of credit card data stolen from retailer TJX Companies.
March 21, 9:25 a.m. PST

DHS head: Security and privacy not at odds
The head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Thursday downplayed privacy concerns raised by the government's efforts to create standardized, data-chipped drivers licenses across the country.
March 15, 7:43 a.m. PST

Gates calls for new privacy law
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates asked the U.S. Congress to pass a comprehensive privacy law this year, allowing consumers to control how their personal information is used.
March 8, 4:13 a.m. PST

More IT war stories
Off the Record, the real-world slice of life that graces the last page of InfoWorld, is one of our most popular columns. I know this from reader surveys and from all the e-mail I receive about it. As reader Roland Sickenberger put it recently, “It’s my favorite part of the magazine, kind of like a ‘Dilbert come to life’ thing.”
March 5, 3:00 a.m. PST

Diffie: Privacy laws could hurt the little guy
Whitfield Diffie has been credited with making privacy possible in the digital age. As a co-inventor of public key cryptography, he is one of the most respected contributors to the field of computer security and is in constant demand as a speaker.
February 26, 7:53 a.m. PST

EFF to fight for digital rights in Europe
Consumers in Europe have another group looking out for their digital rights with the opening of a Brussels office by the U.S. nonprofit group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
February 6, 6:33 a.m. PST

Europe preps for battle with U.S. over traveler data
The European Parliament has delayed a vote on how to react to the U.S.' growing appetite for personal information about European citizens, in order to intensify its opposition.
February 1, 7:29 a.m. PST

Women in technology: A call to action
A quick scan of almost any IT department -- from the trenches to the corner office -- confirms it: Women who embrace technology as a lifelong career remain a rare breed. To be sure, opportunity for women in technology has advanced in the past few decades, as have education initiatives aimed at leveling the playing field, but for every woman rising to prominence or embarking on a profession in IT, there seems to be another opting out of her career in technology.
January 29, 3:03 a.m. PST

Back to school: Getting girls into IT
Despite the success of various education initiatives in the past several years, there’s little doubt that the shortage of women in technology begins on the playground. As such, many industry leaders and experts believe the long-term solution to the gender imbalance in IT lies in women technologists going back to school -- way back, to high schools and even elementary schools to mentor young girls, who too often give up on math and science at an early age.
January 29, 3:02 a.m. PST

Activism provides competitive advantage for IT
Encountering another woman working in technology was a rare event for me when I started out in IT many years ago. In the years since, women have made significant strides, sometimes against great odds, proving their mettle as both tech execs and engineers.
January 29, 3:01 a.m. PST

Gender crisis in IT
You don’t need a degree in statistics to recognize that IT is a men’s club. Just walk the floor of any tech conference or, in all likelihood, your own office — XY chromosomes everywhere you look.
January 29, 3:00 a.m. PST

Google antiphishing site exposes private user data
Google has removed a few user names and passwords posted inadvertently to a phishing blacklist it compiles and makes publicly available on the Web, the Mountain View, California, company said Monday.
January 22, 1:04 p.m. PST

Vendors seek Web code of conduct
Major Web companies, educators, and a variety of human rights groups are banding together to protect privacy rights and freedom of expression on the Internet.
January 22, 5:23 a.m. PST

Microsoft, Google promote privacy rights
Microsoft, Google, and two other technology companies will develop a code of conduct with a coalition of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to promote freedom of expression and privacy rights, they announced Friday.
January 19, 4:27 a.m. PST

UK proposes sharing data among gov't agencies
The U.K. government wants to relax data protection laws so it can share people's personal data across different government agencies, but critics are decrying the proposal as another move toward a "big brother" state.
January 16, 8:32 a.m. PST

Technology of the Gods
January is named after Janus, the two-faced Roman deity of beginnings and endings, who reportedly was able to look both forward and back. So for our Jan. 1 issue, we pay homage to the mythological immortal with our seventh annual Technology of the Year Awards, an analysis of where IT has been and where it’s going in 2007.
January 1, 3:00 a.m. PST

EFF sues agency over travel data-mining
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, demanding the agency turn over information about an "invasive" data-mining system used to assess the terrorist threat posed by U.S. travelers.
December 19, 2:24 p.m. PST

Review of reviews
It’s coming up on closing time for 2006. All around us, everyone is going into holiday mode. Not to be curmudgeonly contrarians, InfoWorld will be following suit, taking a one-week break before returning on Jan. 1 with our first print issue of the year. (It’s really only a semi-hiatus; InfoWorld.com will continue to perk over the holidays with a slightly reduced slate of stories.)
December 18, 3:00 a.m. PST

U.S. tally of data breach victims tops 100M
A stolen laptop at The Boeing Co. has pushed a widely watched tally of U.S. data breach victims past the 100 million mark.
December 15, 4:22 a.m. PST

Good ideas take time
Two years ago, I publicly floated the concept that IT should start thinking more like entrepreneurs. What a disaster! I was speaking at a meeting of CTOs, and I mentioned that I’d heard of a few IT departments that were focusing, at least in part, on creating saleable new products and services for their companies. I asked the group what they thought of the idea.
December 4, 3:00 a.m. PST

Groups call for investigation of Microsoft ad service
Two consumer advocacy groups have filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), saying Microsoft Corp. and other Web-based companies are using "unfair and deceptive" business practices to collect data about their customers.
November 1, 11:06 a.m. PST

Redefining innovation
Innovative ideas are a dime a dozen, according to Jim Andrew, senior partner at big-time consultancy BCG. In fact, at most companies, coming up with great concepts for a product, service, or process isn’t even an issue. But turning those ideas into money … ah, there’s the rub.
October 30, 3:00 a.m. PST

Microsoft releases guidelines for customer privacy
Criticized in the past for an initiative that would require the company to collect and catalog personal information about its customers, Microsoft on Tuesday released an internal document about how it protects customers' privacy in the hopes other companies will adopt similar practices.
October 17, 3:31 p.m. PDT

HP's e-mail tracer in widespread use
The tracer software that Hewlett-Packard  investigators used to try to sniff out boardroom leaks sounded like it had been ripped from the pages of a bad science-fiction novel. That is, until the company began talking about it in detail at a congressional probe into the spying scandal.
1:19 p.m. PDT

EU, US to swap air passenger data
European Union and U.S. negotiators have reached agreement on how to share information about passengers flying to the U.S. from Europe, a Finnish government spokesman said Friday. The new deal allows many more U.S. government agencies to access the data, which includes details such as a passenger's name, address and credit card details.
October 6, 1:55 a.m. PDT

Seller of telephone records settles FTC charges
An Internet business that sold people's telephone and credit-card records has agreed to settle charges that it violated U.S. law, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Thursday.
October 5, 8:25 a.m. PDT

Execs quizzed by Euro Parliament about data privacy
Executives from the financial data transfer company Swift and the president of the European Central Bank (ECB) faced tough questions in a European Parliament committee meeting Wednesday, about the illegal sharing of private data with U.S. authorities.
October 4, 4:59 a.m. PDT

Virtual ID card identifies 'Net users
Parents with children who love to chat on the Internet are familiar with the problem of how to keep their kids safe from online predators.
October 3, 12:48 p.m. PDT

EU broadens probe into US spying on Swift banking data
European data-protection officials are broadening their investigation into the alleged transfer of personal banking details by the Swift banking cooperative in Belgium to U.S. authorities, the European Commission said Wednesday.
September 27, 12:54 p.m. PDT

National personality, national identity
Every seven years since 1964, the filmmaker Michael Apted has released another installment of "The Up Series." These films document the lives of a diverse group of Britons from the ages of 7 to, most recently, 49. One of the patterns that emerges is a dramatic illustration of the Jesuit motto that inspired the series: “Give me a child until he is 7 and I will give you the man.” You can clearly see how these kids’ very different personalities were fully formed at age seven.
September 27, 3:00 a.m. PDT

House panel approves electronic surveillance bill
A U.S. House of Representatives Committee has approved a controversial bill that would broaden the U.S. government's ability to conduct electronic surveillance on U.S. residents by making it easier for federal law enforcement officials to get court-issued warrants.
September 21, 7:28 a.m. PDT

Browser lets users surf Internet without a trace
A tweaked version of the Firefox browser that makes Web browsing anonymous has been released by a group of privacy-minded coders.
September 20, 8:37 a.m. PDT

Watching out for our own security
Security pros know that there’s no perfect defense against a determined attacker. So when an identity thief strikes, it’s vital to detect the theft. But who’s going to be the detective?
September 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT

Security measures seen doing more harm than good
Many of the security measures put in place after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center in New York are doing more harm than good, said two speakers scheduled to present at the Hack In The Box Security Conference (HITB) this week.
September 18, 4:10 a.m. PDT

Advocacy groups organize to stop surveillance bills
A group of civil liberties and other advocacy groups are urging supporters to contact the U.S. Congress as it moves ahead to approve an electronic surveillance program run through the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).
September 6, 9:20 a.m. PDT

Mandatory translucent data
Back in 2003 I was trying to drum up interest in Peter Wayner’s book, Translucent Databases, which shows how to build and operate databases whose contents are opaque to their operators. Three years later, there’s still no serious discussion of why translucency should be a key architectural principle, or how it might be applied.
September 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT

Keep data confidential -- or else
Multiple laws and regulations exist to protect customer data. The unfortunate consequence of multiple laws governing confidential data and encryption is that none offers prescriptive guidance. Whether encryption solutions and strategies satisfy a particular law is left up to the auditors and lawyers. Still, there are several legal requirements that address confidential data.
September 1, 3:00 a.m. PDT

Encryption fuels security trends
Two new trends in data protection are using encryption to accomplish their goals: controlled rights and self-deleting data.
September 1, 3:00 a.m. PDT

EU/US discord could ground passengers
A failure by the U.S. and European Union to reach a new agreement next month on the provision passenger data for transatlantic flights could ground up to 105,000 people each week, the International Air Transport Association's (IATA) director general said Thursday.
August 31, 4:13 a.m. PDT

AOL reviews privacy policy after shakeup
AOL on Monday announced steps it is taking to prevent another security breach like one in which subscriber search query results recently were posted online.
August 22, 4:26 a.m. PDT

Judge: Government wiretapping program illegal
A U.S. judge has ruled that a U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) program to wiretap telephone and Internet traffic of U.S. residents is illegal and must be stopped.
August 17, 12:41 p.m. PDT

E-government Group forms within Liberty Alliance
A new group within the Liberty Alliance will address government concerns with federated identity projects, the organization said Wednesday.
August 17, 5:31 a.m. PDT

Smart card vendors talk privacy
A group of smart card and smart chip vendors are launching a campaign to talk up the security and privacy features of their products, even as researchers raise questions about their use in passports.
August 16, 12:26 p.m. PDT

Web filter circumvention developer pays people to install
The developer of proxy software designed to defeat Web filters is offering Internet users $10 to install and run his application, as a way to raise its profile.
August 11, 1:18 p.m. PDT

Cisco foots the bill, Microsoft swallows pill
So what are a few search terms between friends? A lot, as AOL found out after it blithely released a database of some 20 million Web searches last week. Although subscribers’ names were replaced with numbers, the searches revealed addresses, Social Security numbers, and “hobbies” — like one guy apparently researching how to murder his wife. That explains AOL’s new proposed tagline: You’ve got manslaughter!
August 11, 3:00 a.m. PDT

Update: AOL reportedly released search data
AOL has apparently released details of Internet searches performed over a period of three months by hundreds of thousands of its subscribers, raising privacy concerns.
August 7, 9:39 a.m. PDT

U.S., AT&T try to shut down spying suit
A suit against AT&T over alleged cooperation with government wiretapping should be dismissed because hearing it would mean exposing information that would help Al-Qaeda, the U.S. Department of Justice argued Friday in federal court in San Francisco.
June 26, 4:38 a.m. PDT

AT&T claims subscribers' data as its own
On Friday, when AT&T Inc. goes into its next court hearing on a lawsuit about alleged spying on its customers, the carrier will also be instituting a privacy policy for Internet and video services that says it owns subscriber account information.
June 22, 12:00 p.m. PDT

Google searching for users' trust
Google's head of mobile services is looking for your trust. Sharing your current location with a data-hoarder like Google might seem unattractive to some people, but greater trust could open the way to a whole range of location-based services, said Deep Nishar, Google's mobile product management director.
May 19, 4:39 a.m. PDT


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