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Telcos and information privacy

Filed in Information Privacy on Dec.05, 2008

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With the economy in the tank, breach of privacy is not going to be a priority in Obama’s administration to do list. It will be quite difficult to make it a priority when Obama has signed a bill indemnifying telcos from suits due to privacy breaches.
During the presidential election campaign, Verizon employee gained [...]

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Skype and Information Privacy

Filed in Information Privacy on Oct.08, 2008

According to an SF chronicle article by Peter Svensson (Oct 3, 2008, pg. c4) “A Canadian researcher (Nart Villeneuve) has discovered that the Chinese version of eBay Inc.’s Skype communication software snoops on text chats that contain keywords like “democracy”. “
In other words, the Chinese version of Skype was used for surveillance of text [...]

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