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.: Congress begins major push to update privacy law
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"The U.S. Congress took the first major step today toward updating a 1986 law, crafted in the pre-Internet era of telephone modems and the black-and-white Macintosh Plus, to protect the privacy of Americans who use mobile phones, Web e-mail, and services like Google Docs, Flickr, and Picasa..." [news.com] |
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.: Business 2.0: Privatising privacy
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"Something rather interesting is happening to privacy, in the breakneck world of the internet. It's being privatised. Legislatures around the world are flummoxed by the sheer breadth of the internet-related privacy issues piling up with exponential speed on their doorsteps...." [ABC] |
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.: Hackers Claim to Have PlayStation Users’ Card Data
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"Security researchers said Thursday that they had seen discussions on underground Internet forums indicating that the hackers who infiltrated the Sony PlayStation Network last week may have made off with the credit card numbers of Sony customers..." [NY Times] |
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