spying
RSS spying5 years ago… Microsoft accused of stealing user information
News Similar instances in the ensuing five years are too plentiful to mention - though few have been as controversial as this with remiss coding, rather than spying, the most common accusation levelled at the Redmond giant. [08 Mar 2004]
Is AOL spying on its users?
News A game distributed with new versions of AOL Instant Messenger does not respect users' privacy, critics say. AOL began offering games along with the latest version of its instant messenger, and now some customers are worried that the... [04 Mar 2004]
Exchange Server hole allows email spying
News Microsoft is investigating what may be a serious flaw in Exchange Server 2003, only a month after the software's launch as part of Office System 2003. The bug appears to affect an Exchange component called Outlook Web Access (OWA), which... [25 Nov 2003]
US ditches anti-terrorism database
News A controversial Pentagon anti-terrorism plan to compile computerised dossiers on US citizens has been quashed after the US House of Representatives eliminated money for the Terrorism Information Awareness project in a new spending bill. [26 Sep 2003]
IT firms shut out spying camera phones
News Samsung and LG Electronics have both barred employees from using camera phones on their research and manufacturing facilities in Korea to protect against industrial espionage and intellectual property theft, [08 Jul 2003]
Email snooping: "I really don't care what is going on in their sordid little lives..."
News In this particular case, spying on my email gave my ex-boss the opportunity to have the last petty word in an argument but it didn't stop the argument in the first place. And the feedback started flooding in. [21 Mar 2003]
Sun, Transmeta and others at centre of international spying case
News A US federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted two men on criminal charges of stealing trade secrets from Sun Microsystems, Transmeta and other computer technology companies with the intention of making and selling processors based on the... [05 Dec 2002]
Human rights enshrined in open source software
News Software distributed under an "enhanced source" licence released this week will be legally prohibited from censoring or spying on users. Crafted by Hacktivismo, a hacking group organised by the Cult of the Dead Cow, the... [02 Dec 2002]
Devil's Advocate: Bedroom terrorism
Comment I have always wondered about the purpose of the questions, which ask things like whether you are entering the US for the purpose of spying. Will the internet breed a generation of terrorists who can cause havoc far from... [26 Nov 2002]
Ericsson employees charged with spying - literally come in from the cold
News In a move that could almost be straight from the pages of a John Le Carre novel, Swedish police have charged three Ericsson employees on spying charges. The allegation is that they had been passing on sensitive... [07 Nov 2002]
Time to boot out the techno time-wasters?
Comment But now Websense and Macrovision have stepped in to try to encourage employers to get busy with the spying and stop their procrastinating employees in their bandwidth hogging tracks. What a week. There aren't enough... [10 Oct 2002]
All you need to know about legal spying
News The government has launched a website to advise organisations on how to snoop on phone calls, email and web activity without breaking the law. Last week it was announced that the government will enforce its controversial Regulation of... [18 Jun 2002]
Microsoft in trouble with regulators again
News Microsoft and Real Networks are under investigation by European Union privacy groups for illegally spying on users via their media player applications. An EU committee, established to advise the 15 EU states on internet... [14 Jun 2002]
Best of Reader Comments: silicon.com's Mr Average vs. the World
News Have you been spying on us? Someone's been spying on us. We wrote: He's aged between 25 and 45, married or living with his partner in the south of England. He banks online and if he drives a car - as he... [10 May 2002]
Microsoft denies spy charges
News Microsoft has denied allegations that it is spying on the movie-watching habits of individual users of its Windows Media Player XP (MPXP). The denial comes after an independent researcher in the US accused the software... [22 Feb 2002]
