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Developers of new applications have to walk a tightrope when it comes to user privacy. There is an inevitable trade-off between utility versus a user's rights. How do we achieve the right balance? iTnews investigates.

Google responds to privacy calls

Google responds to privacy calls

Google has responded to advice from privacy advocates and has added a new link to its homepage.
Staff Writers Jul 8 2008 4:26PM Security
Customers shun personalised marketing e-mails, study finds

Customers shun personalised marketing e-mails, study finds

Marketing e-mails that include customers’ names, hobbies and other personal information could come across as “too pushy”, a U.S. study of e-mail marketing has found.
Staff Writers Jul 7 2008 2:21PM Strategy
British privacy group aims to roadblock Google's Street View

British privacy group aims to roadblock Google's Street View

Google is set to start photographing areas in the UK for its Street View tool this week, but British rights groups are already up in arms about it and are threatening to call on the Information Commissioner to take action against it.
Sylvie Barak Jul 7 2008 8:23AM Software
Web giants spark privacy concerns

Web giants spark privacy concerns

Google and LinkedIn criticised for not protecting individuals' data.
Rosalie Marshall Jul 7 2008 8:19AM Telco/ISP
National health-record privacy law in Congress

National health-record privacy law in Congress

A new law in Congress would require every U.S. citizen to have electronic health records by 2014.
Chuck Miller Jun 27 2008 10:11AM Security
Dutch boffins work on open source smart card

Dutch boffins work on open source smart card

Dutch Boffins at Radboud University in Nijmegen are developing new privacy-protecting smart cards for public transport, using good old open sauce.
Sylvie Barak Jun 20 2008 10:39AM Security
BlackBerry service won't be shut down despite ultimatum

BlackBerry service won't be shut down despite ultimatum

The BlackBerry service will not be shut down in India, despite threats from the country's Government, according to BlackBerry manufacturer RIM.
Richard Thurston Jun 19 2008 10:08AM Security
Social sites need tougher privacy rules

Social sites need tougher privacy rules

Social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace should introduce tougher rules to stop users posting abusive information about other members, according to a survey..
Guy Dixon Jun 7 2008 11:42AM Software
Facebook faces accusations of 22 privacy violations

Facebook faces accusations of 22 privacy violations

The social networking site has been hit by a legal complaint that claims it has failed to gain users' permission to distribute their information.
Richard Thurston Jun 5 2008 9:58AM Security
Google chief exec targeted over privacy policy

Google chief exec targeted over privacy policy

Fourteen U.S. privacy groups have written to Eric Schmidt arguing that Google is breaking Californian law by not including a link to its privacy policy on its homepage.
Richard Thurston Jun 5 2008 9:58AM Security
Privacy issues loom over Google Health

Privacy issues loom over Google Health

As Google launches its Google Health, security experts are concerned that personal medical records are at a greater risk of being breached.
Sue May 21 2008 8:55AM Security
Out-of-the-box architecture needs no code cutting

Out-of-the-box architecture needs no code cutting

Information Gateways and Information Builders have partnered to bring out-of-the-box managed file transfer architecture to Australian enterprises.
Liz Tay May 5 2008 12:40PM Storage
Australian Commissioner: Privacy guidelines needed

Australian Commissioner: Privacy guidelines needed

The Australian Privacy Commissioner, Karen Curtis, has called for feedback from businesses, organisations, government agencies and the public on a draft Voluntary Information Security Breach Notification Guide.
Staff Writers Apr 17 2008 2:26PM Security
Australian Privacy Awards launched

Australian Privacy Awards launched

In an aim to increase the awareness of best privacy practices in Australian businesses, the Rudd Labor government has launched the inaugural Australian Privacy Awards and Australian Privacy Medal sponsored by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner.
Staff Writers Apr 11 2008 10:55AM Security
AIIA backs Swimming Australia in Facebook photo removal

AIIA backs Swimming Australia in Facebook photo removal

Swimming Australia may have copped some flack over the removal of its members' personal photos from popular social networking site Facebook, but according to the AIIA, the sporting organisation was correct in its instructions to the athletes.
Liz Tay Apr 8 2008 2:24PM Software
Setting your own agenda at Sydney BarCamp

Setting your own agenda at Sydney BarCamp

Early on Saturday morning, at the BarCamp Sydney conference, a group of people crowded around the conference scheduling board. Most wore jeans and t-shirts, and all nursed take-away coffee. “Who’s speaking first?” asked one of them. “No one so far – why don’t you give a talk?” asked another. A young man carrying a laptop wrote his name and subject matter on an oversized Post-It note and stuck it on the scheduling board. “There – I’ll give the first talk,” he said.
Kathryn Small Apr 8 2008 12:14PM Software
Google sued for Street View privacy invasion

Google sued for Street View privacy invasion

A Pennsylvania couple are suing Google for posting pictures of their home on Google Street View..
Iain Thomson Apr 8 2008 7:54AM Software
Guest column: What ISPs need to consider when it comes to Web filtering

Guest column: What ISPs need to consider when it comes to Web filtering

As the evolving Web makes managing appropriate surfing and bandwidth use more difficult, it also introduces new security threats that filtering may be uniquely well suited to address. However, the Web content security role makes inaccurate site rating, poor coverage, and delayed rating of new URLs even more costly.
Wayne Neich Mar 25 2008 11:11AM Security
Berners-Lee warns on data privacy

Berners-Lee warns on data privacy

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, father of the internet, has hit out at companies that try and sell customer’s browsing data.
Iain Thomson Mar 19 2008 7:33AM Security
Security vs. privacy

Security vs. privacy

Does anyone today really believe that they can keep their personal information entirely confidential? While some people have personal preferences about how much personal information they are forced to reveal, to function within society requires some exposure of such information.
Tim Mather Mar 14 2008 3:22PM Security

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