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Articles tagged with: Privacy and Encryption
RSA: The fundamental challenge of security versus privacy
A fundamental tension exists in balancing individual privacy rights and the collective right to security, Gary McGraw, CTO of application security vendor Cigital said at the RSA Conference Tuesday. more
Using Mobile Phones to Monitor Road Traffic Congestion
..nto the system so no data that can be tied to a particular phone will be created, transmitted or stored. This "Privacy by Design" system strips the traffic data from individual device identifiers, uses banking-grade encryption techn more
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Virgin Media Censured for the Loss of 3,000 Customer Details
The UK's Information CommissionerÃ's Office (ICO) - which regulates data protection and privacy issues - has found Virgin Media in breach of the Data Protection Act following the loss of an unencrypted CD containing the personal details of over three thousand customers. more
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Possible Solution to Indian BlackBerry Security Problem
..conditional on the Department of Telecommunications taking full responsibility for any loss of privacy or data leakages. The Economic Times says that RIM has agreed to hand over the private keys used to encrypt BlackBerry emails to the Indian go more
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Using GPS Handsets to Monitor Road Traffic Problems
..w how real-time traffic information can be collected from the GPS feed, while preserving the privacy of the devices' owners. The experiment was carried out to test the traffic data collection and aggregation system, while studying the trade-of more
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