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Features
Looking back at the surveillance all around us--from wiretapped phones to security cameras
Aug 19, 2008 |
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Features
What steps do you take to protect your personal information?
Aug 19, 2008
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Features
Google, Microsoft and other providers of Web-based services for managing health care information promise to keep it secure, but privacy policies vary from site to site
Aug 19, 2008 |
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Scientific American Magazine
Introduction to SciAm's issue on Privacy. Our jittery state since 9/11, coupled with the Internet revolution, is shifting the boundaries between public interest and "the right to be let alone"
Aug 18, 2008 |
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Scientific American Magazine
Young people share the most intimate details of personal life on social-networking Web sites, such as MySpace and Facebook, portending a realignment of the public and the private
Aug 18, 2008 |
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Scientific American Magazine
Many issues posing as questions of privacy can turn out to be matters of security, health policy, insurance or self-presentation. It is useful to clarify those issues before focusing on privacy itself
Aug 18, 2008 |
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Scientific American Magazine
In spite of recent legislation, tougher laws are needed to prevent insurers and employers from discriminating on the basis of genetic tests
Aug 19, 2008 |
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Scientific American Magazine
Security systems based on anatomical and behavioral characteristics may offer the best defense against identity theft
Aug 19, 2008 |
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Scientific American Magazine
Mashing everyone's personal data, from credit card bills to cell phone logs, into one all-encompassing digital dossier is the stuff of an Orwellian nightmare. But it is not as easy as most people assume
Aug 20, 2008 |
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Scientific American Magazine
A privacy activist argues that the devices pose new security risks to those who carry them, often unwittingly
Aug 21, 2008 |
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Scientific American Magazine
As telephone conversations have moved to the Internet, so have those who want to listen in. But the technology needed to do so would entail a dangerous expansion of the government's surveillance powers
Aug 22, 2008 |
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Scientific American Magazine
A versatile assortment of computational techniques can protect the privacy of your information and online activities to essentially any degree and nuance you desire
Aug 20, 2008 |
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Scientific American Magazine
Experts from Sun, Adobe, Microsoft and MacAfee discuss how to protect against more numerous and sophisticated attacks by hackers; security professionals call for upgraded technology, along with more attention to human and legal factors
Aug 22, 2008 |
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Scientific American Magazine
Night-vision cameras, biometric sensors and other gadgets already give snoops access to private spaces. Coming soon: palm-size "bug-bots"
Aug 21, 2008 |
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Features
State Department shows off Cold War-era electronic eavesdropping gadgets
Jul 22, 2008
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Scientific American Magazine
History is ambiguous about government willingness to protect private life, but a few recommendations can help keep its future secure
Aug 19, 2008 |
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News
Eight years after the controversial 2000 presidential election, electronic voting systems still fail to deliver on their promise of accuracy and security
Feb 12, 2008 |
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News
President scores victory in effort to widen scope of federal government's warrantless recon power
Jul 11, 2008 |
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News
A new biometrics system uses the blood network in the palms of your hand to ID individuals
Jun 24, 2008 |
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News
Although a cyber war has yet to be declared, there have been plenty of online skirmishes
Sep 18, 2007
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60-Second Science Blog
Aug 5, 2008 |
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60-Second Science Blog
Jul 18, 2008 |
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News
Deep Siren technology would let submarines communicate with ships and shore without compromising stealth
Jan 18, 2008 |
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News
Edward Davidson reportedly shot his wife and daughters before turning the gun on himself after escaping from minimum-security prison
Jul 25, 2008 |
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News
Does a scheme for stealing personal information from Mac OS X users mean that a few bad Apples are about to spoil the bunch?
Nov 1, 2007
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Scientific American Magazine
Computer scientist Latanya Sweeney helps to save confidentiality with "anonymizing" programs, "deidentifiers" and other clever algorithms. Whether they are enough, however, is another question
Jun 17, 2007
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News
Researchers outline project to send long-distance, ultrasecure messages on Earth via the International Space Station
Jun 9, 2008 |
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News
Researchers warn that implantable medical devices could be vulnerable to cyber strikes
Mar 14, 2008 |
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News
Efforts to untie AT&T's exclusive service-provider agreement with Apple's iPhone are an interesting exercise to prove it can be done. But how many iPhone customers will take advantage of this?
Aug 30, 2007 |
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News
This time, a thief made off with a computer containing unencrypted details of about 2,500 participants in an NIH clinical trial
Mar 25, 2008 |
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Introduction to SciAm's issue on Privacy. Our jittery state since 9/11, coupled with the Internet revolution, is shifting the boundaries between public interest and "the right to be let alone"
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