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Category: Privacy

Boneheads

Don’t Drink and Carry Nude Pictures of Yourself on your Cell Phone

Posted on 5/22/20196/13/2005 by The Internet Patrol

Ah, a fresh entry in our “how to get yourself into trouble with your cell phone” archives, along with videoing yourself having sex and having it turn up in porn shops, and the guy denying a crime involving an AK47 just as his cell phone displayed a photo of him… holding the AK47, and, of course, the ubiquitous upskirting and downblousing,

Email Hosting

ISP RoadRunner Must Give Up Identity of User Claimed to Slander Public Relations Society of America’s Bolton

Posted on 6/14/20056/13/2005 by The Internet Patrol

A New York judge has ruled that Internet service provider RoadRunner must reveal the identity of a customer who sent email to the Public Relations…

Around the World

MSN Joins Google and Yahoo in Blocking Chinese Users from Accessing, Using Forbidden Terms and Content

Posted on 6/15/20056/13/2005 by The Internet Patrol

There’s a hue and cry being raised about Microsoft’s new MSN portal in China not allowing Chinese users to access or share certain “forbidden” sites…

Google and Gmail

Beware Google Archiving Your Entire Google Search History

Posted on 7/13/20056/13/2005 by The Internet Patrol

Google sure does a lot of nifty things with their search and archive capabilities! And one of those things is that it now archives your…

Around the World

Digital Bullying and Cyber Bullying on the Rise

Posted on 8/1/20076/10/2005 by The Internet Patrol

A new report out this week indicates that a phenomenon known as digital bullying, or “cyber bullying” is on the rise.

Privacy

3.9 Million Citigroup Customers’ Data Compromised

Posted on 9/3/20136/6/2005 by The Internet Patrol

In the latest in a rash of incidents in which the personal data of customers of various institutions has been compromised, Citigroup has revealed that…

Around the World

Register All of Your Sex Partners at Shagster.net

Posted on 5/22/20196/3/2005 by The Internet Patrol

They are calling it the “Sex Degrees of Separation” website. Shagster.net is the Friendster or Linked-In of the intimate relationship. Slept with someone? Register them…

Around the World

Corporate Espionage: International Giants Implicated in Israeli Industrial Spy Ring

Posted on 7/25/20055/31/2005 by The Internet Patrol

Talk about spyware versus spyware. Authorities in Isreal have arrested dozens of people, including high level executives of multinational corporations, in what increasingly is developing…

How To - Tips & Tricks

How to Get Rid of Internet Cookies

Posted on 5/22/20195/30/2005 by The Internet Patrol

For some reason we have had a lot of searches this week asking how to get rid of Internet cookies. It’s really quite easy, but to make it even easier, we are going to cover it for you here.

Internet Law

Feds Trying to Gain Wholesale Access to ISP Records Under Patriot Act – Again

Posted on 5/30/20055/30/2005 by The Internet Patrol

The Federal government is arguing, despite rulings by the court to the contrary, that under the Patriot Act they are, or at least should be,…

Email Hosting

Yahoo Sued for Failure to Remove Dirty Pictures of User

Posted on 3/4/20145/28/2005 by The Internet Patrol

According to Cecilia Barnes, men have shown up at her place of employment in Oregon expecting to be able to have sex with her. Which…

Internet Law

Use Encryption – Go to Jail (And Watch that Search History Too!)

Posted on 7/13/20055/27/2005 by The Internet Patrol

Just when you thought that the state of the law with regards to the Internet couldn’t get any more convoluted, a Minnesota appeals court has…

Hacking

Stanford Computer System Hacked – Personal Information of Thousands Compromised

Posted on 7/19/20055/27/2005 by The Internet Patrol

Stanford University has joined that special inner circle – no, not the top tier schools – those which have had their computer systems hacked and…

Privacy

Website Outs Private Information of Public Officials to Demonstrate Privacy Problem

Posted on 5/30/20055/26/2005 by The Internet Patrol

Most of us are concerned about Internet privacy, or the lack thereof, but Betty “BJ” Ostergren is doing something about it. Ostergren maintains a webpage…

Internet Providers

Yahoo Using Web Beacons to Track Users Across the Web

Posted on 7/15/20055/19/2005 by The Internet Patrol

There is a hue and cry being raised across the web about Yahoo’s use of web beacons, which some liken to “super cookies”, and which…

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