When people die in the real world, their online alter egos may live on, creating an unusual situation for those who only knew them through their online presence. The law is only beginning to address this limbo state, and fragmented privacy legislation provides no conclusive answer to the question of who should be allowed to access or delete someone's social networking profile or email correspondence after they die, a panel discussion at the Amsterdam Privacy Conference concluded.
Loek Essers |
08 Oct |
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Former Pirate Bay host PRQ.se went down in the middle of a police raid on Monday, affecting hundreds of hosted sites and thousands of users of PRQ's other services. But the raid and the outage are unlikely to be related, according to PRQ's owner.
Loek Essers |
02 Oct |
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Facebook has complied with most, but not all, of the recommendations that the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) set last year, the agency said Friday.
Loek Essers |
21 Sep |
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Contactless fare cards in the New Jersey and San Francisco transit systems can be manipulated using an Android application, enabling travelers to reset their card balance and travel for free, researchers demonstrated on Thursday during the EUSecWest security conference in Amsterdam.
Loek Essers |
20 Sep |
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The Samsung Galaxy S3 can be hacked via NFC, allowing attackers to download all data from the Android smartphone, security researchers demonstrated during the Mobile Pwn2Own contest in Amsterdam on Wednesday.
Loek Essers |
19 Sep |
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Dutch security researchers hacked an iPhone 4S on Wednesday, showing how a malicious webpage can send all pictures, address book data and browsing history on the phone to a server of the attacker's choice.
Loek Essers |
19 Sep |
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Facebook's store of data about its users holds some surprises, and not just in the sheer quantity of data it is sitting on. Among the surprises it held for me was Słupsk.
Loek Essers |
14 Sep |
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A 23-year-old German man was sentenced to seven years in prison for an online swindle with fake Web shops that caused €1.1 million (US$1.36 million) in damages, a spokeswoman of the lower regional court in Augsburg said on Tuesday.
Loek Essers |
21 Aug |
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McAfee is expanding its mobile security software for Android tablets and smartphones, as it sees an increase in threats targeting Android devices, the Intel subsidiary announced.
Loek Essers |
20 Aug |
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Civil rights activist Patrick Breyer filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights over a German court ruling that identification be required for the purchase of prepaid SIM cards, he said Wednesday.
Loek Essers |
15 Aug |
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The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information reopened proceedings against Facebook's facial recognition technology on Wednesday, the commissioner said.
Loek Essers |
15 Aug |
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Swiss scientists have developed an algorithm that can be used to locate spammers as well as the source of a computer virus or malware.
Loek Essers |
13 Aug |
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China and the U.S. were the two largest sources of Internet-attack traffic in the first quarter of 2012, increasing to account for 16 percent and 11 percent respectively, according to Akamai Technologies.
Loek Essers |
09 Aug |
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In a deal that should help Apple boost its enterprise security offerings, the iPhone maker is planning to buy mobile security company AuthenTec for $8 per share or a little over $356 million, AuthenTec said on Friday.
Loek Essers |
27 Jul |
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Microsoft released the technology preview of a new security toolkit that uses defenses inspired by one of the contestants of its BlueHat Prize security competition, the company said on Wednesday.
Loek Essers |
25 Jul |
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