It's very possible. New generations of "Web bugs" provide crackers, hackers and other third-party snoopers ways to explore holes in software and even break through computer "firewalls" to access ...

Last week, we looked at the possibility of privacy on the Internet, and the sad state of current affairs where seemingly every major Internet company wants to deny us that possibility. No matter what ...

Young visitors to a recent educational event at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., tested their digital privacy awareness with an interactive tool created by computer ...

On January 11, 2022, the Israeli Supreme Court, in an expanded panel of nine justices, prescribed a set of rules concerning procedures and judicial discretion on the granting of search warrants of ...

Chances are your privacy settings are something you clicked on once and then basically forgot about it. But it's a good idea to occasionally go back and evaluate your settings to make sure they're ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP)-The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts is offering new policies to schools to help protect student’s privacy using electronic devices. This includes using the ...

Chances are your privacy settings are something you clicked on once and then basically forgot about it. But it's a good idea to occasionally go back and evaluate your settings to make sure they're ...

Geek Note: For lack of questions from you, dear reader Geeks, I turned to a rather unlikely source: my own dear, sweet wife, whom I lovingly refer to as Spouse Peripheral. She sent me a couple of ...

Australian High Court Judge Justice Kirby says computer code is more potent than the law--and that legislators are powerless to do anything about it. Technology has outpaced the legal system's ability ...

2006-08-08 04:00:00 PDT San Francisco-- A federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled today that workers have no legal expectation of privacy on their office computers when their employer has an ...

The National Science Foundation is seeking applications for grants to support research into scientific and technological approaches to privacy on computer networks. Who is eligible: unspecified.