Privacy Roundup #0013 • August 2007
August 2007 was dominated by the rampaging Storm Worm, the swelling cost of the TJX card breach, and a run of leaks and laws that showed how casually personal data was still being handled.
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Privacy in the digital world covers how personal data is collected, stored, and used. Posts in this category discuss ways to protect your information online, privacy tools, and related concerns. As more of life moves online, understanding privacy becomes more important.
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Privacy Roundup #0012 • July 2007
July 2007 was dominated by the fight over how long search engines and phone companies may hoard our records, while spammers and ransomware crews sharpened their tools.
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Privacy Roundup #0011 • June 2007
June 2007 saw Google branded the web's worst privacy offender while data breaches, wiretap rulings and new surveillance laws sharpened the debate over how much our digital lives reveal.
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Privacy Roundup #0010 • May 2007
May 2007 showed how loosely guarded data leaks everywhere, from the record TJX card theft to British DNA records, MySpace, ID cards and a spear-phishing raid on company bosses.
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Privacy Roundup #0009 • April 2007
April 2007 was dominated by Google's swallowing of DoubleClick, a wave of botnet and phishing trouble, and fresh cracks in the technologies meant to keep personal data safe.
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Privacy Roundup #0008 • March 2007
March 2007 was dominated by the record-breaking TJX card heist, fresh doubts over UK identity and passport plans, and a steady drip of malware, phishing and tracking that put personal data under siege.
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Privacy Roundup #0007 • February 2007
February 2007 saw the TJX card breach balloon, British anger at vehicle tracking surge past a million signatures, and fresh doubts cast over Vista, biometric passports and lost government discs.
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Privacy Roundup #0006 • January 2007
January 2007 opened the year with the record TJX card breach, the first Storm worm spam floods and fresh fights over data retention, surveillance and software that watches its users.
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Privacy Roundup #0005 • December 2006
December 2006 closed the year with British surveillance plans, fresh data breaches and a wave of phishing, spyware and wiretap scandals.
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Privacy Roundup #0004 • November 2006
November 2006 was the month the surveillance society moved from warning to inventory, as watchdogs counted Britain's cameras and databases while passports, fingerprints and phone records leaked at every turn.
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Privacy Roundup #0003 • October 2006
October 2006 turned on the movement of personal data, as RFID, biometric passports, surveillance trojans and leaky call centres all pressed against the limits of consent.
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Privacy Roundup #0002 • September 2006
September 2006 was dominated by the Hewlett-Packard pretexting scandal, alongside a Facebook backlash, fresh demands for data retention, and a steady drip of surveillance and breach stories.
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Privacy Roundup #0001 • August 2006
August 2006 was dominated by AOL's reckless release of search logs, fresh proof that biometric passports could be cloned, and a steady drumbeat of lost laptops and expanding state surveillance.
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