privacy in cheat sheets
Cheat Sheet: Google Chrome
Cheat Sheet In December 2008 Chrome shook off its beta tag with a raft of updates including a revised bookmark manager and privacy changes, including the consolidation of all privacy options into a single dialogue box. [22 Sep 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Data Protection Act 1998
Cheat Sheet The Act is based on a European directive which requires member states "to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of natural persons, in particular their right to privacy with respect to the processing of personal... [28 Aug 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Mobile location-based services
Cheat Sheet Others are also using LBS for fleet management, although there are privacy issues to be dealt with with these services. How can you use a service without using it in a location? Interesting point. However, location-based... [29 Sep 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Wireless mesh networking
Cheat Sheet As with traditional wi-fi before it, wireless mesh networking raises questions of security and privacy. Go on then, mesh networking - why should I care? What's so exciting? A mesh network is essentially a series of nodes... [24 Feb 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Contactless payments
Cheat Sheet There have also been concerns about privacy, as tags such as those based on RFID can be physically tracked and transactions recorded. Contactless payments (CP) - what's that, then? Rather than hand over cash, sign your... [11 Oct 2005]
Cheat Sheet: ID cards
Cheat Sheet Blunkett even suggested recently that supermarket loyalty cards are more of a privacy threat than ID cards. While most of us won't leave very interesting data trails, privacy activists argue it will lead... [22 Nov 2004]
Cheat Sheet: Managed security services
Cheat Sheet There are also knee-jerk concerns about data privacy - the 'will they read my email' reaction - but these are largely non-issues and companies are starting to see beyond such worries and buy into the idea that a... [24 Sep 2004]
Cheat Sheet: Push-to-talk
Cheat Sheet They think teenagers will send messages back and forth where once they might have texted (prompting speculation about cannibalisation of SMS revenues) and families keeping in touch, valuing presence, instant communication and... [09 Sep 2004]
Cheat sheet: Mobile and wireless security
Cheat Sheet Most WLANs can secure data using the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) protocol. OK, let's start with mobile security. Why should I care? I mean there's very little I can do with my phone at the moment except call my wife... [14 Feb 2002]
Cheat Sheet: Web services
Cheat Sheet The biggest problems are without doubt security and privacy. What are web services? In business-speak, web services are all about linking up different websites so they work for customers in an intelligent way. [31 Jan 2002]
Cheat Sheet: Microsoft Passport
Cheat Sheet Privacy and security, dummy. What is it then? Passport is the centrepiece of Microsoft's .NET initiative, which is all about web services. You'll probably have experienced it in its current guise as the authentication... [09 Nov 2001]
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