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News Companies worried about staff or visitors using camera phones to secretly take pictures in places like swimming pools and changing rooms will soon be able to automatically disable the imaging system inside certain handsets when they... [12 Sep 2003]
Privacy Management for Medical Service Application Using Mobile Phone Collaborated With RFID Reader
White Paper However, the security and privacy problem related RFID application has become a serious issue in real service environment. This paper proposes a customized policy based privacy management architecture... [15 Apr 2009]
Mobile directory - invasion of privacy or invaluable service?
Comment Does the UK's new mobile phone directory go far enough to protect your privacy? What's interesting is that while most of us don't seem to mind having our landlines listed on public directories, when it... [25 Jun 2009]
Liberty Alliance targets mobile spam
News The Liberty Alliance is working on technology to keep mobile phone numbers from providers of wireless content such as ringtones, with the aim of protecting people's privacy. The push for... [21 Jun 2005]
Data retention 'blow' dealt to UK government
News Forcing phone and internet companies to retain this data on all of their customers for years is a huge threat to the privacy of us all. Europe's data protection commissioners have dealt a blow to the UK... [16 Sep 2002]
Mobile snappers 'need to learn responsibility'
News The group's "Camera Phone Code of Conduct" consists of seven rules meant to balance digital imaging ubiquity with privacy and other concerns. Privacy International (PI) warned on Tuesday... [17 Nov 2004]
Bluetooth phone hacking tools 'spreading quickly'
News Tom Watson, Labour MP for West Bromwich East and a Bluetooth-phone user, told ZDNet UK he is concerned about the privacy of consumers and hopes that mobile phone manufacturers will do... [17 Feb 2004]
Database Nation: Privacy Under Attack
Comment Because you weren't paying attention, you lost the chance to buy back your privacy. So the machines are coming, and with them you'll lose just a little bit more of your privacy and your dignity. All this... [07 Feb 2000]
Google's Latitude knows where your friends are
News To protect privacy, Google specifically requires people to sign up for the service. That service doesn't provide location information, but it does provide a mechanism to centralise people's geographic... [04 Feb 2009]
Nokia planning RFID in phones
News One snag facing RFID is privacy concerns. Consumer advocates say the unchecked spread of the devices in libraries and elsewhere could spell disaster for privacy. Nokia director Gerhard Romen said that,... [25 Oct 2004]
Throwing the book at Amazon
Comment This week has in fact been dominated by privacy issues, thanks in part to the Observer's astonishing revelation last Sunday of a plan which, if accepted by the government, would force all communication companies to... [07 Dec 2000]
Personal privacy threatened by Network Solution service
News But privacy laws could be infringed if individuals registering .com, .edu or .net addresses are not informed how their data will be used. Paola Benassi, product operations officer at TrustE, which lobbies for... [16 Dec 1998]
Electronic snooping gets the green light
News Home Office minister Caroline Flint said in a statement: "We are absolutely committed to safeguarding individual privacy.We need to ensure that we strike a balance between the privacy of the citizen and... [15 Sep 2003]
HP developing shopping kiosks of the future
News Though privacy advocates may balk at the idea of a retailer monitoring each shopper's purchases - indeed some already do decry the club card concept - HP said its customers will need to have privacy... [30 May 2007]
EC gives thumbs-up to Clarke's anti-terror email plans
News Barroso added the EC will try to take privacy concerns over the controversial proposals into account: "It is also obvious that data retention raises privacy concerns, and that it has a cost for the... [14 Jul 2005]
