With George Orwell’s book, 1984, it seems as if the topic of Big Brother is always popping up. Many people are curious as well as intimidated about new technological methods of monitoring services. Well, with this new technology, it almost seems as if the machines determine what is appropriate/inappropriate behavior. It may […]

I thought this was pretty interesting with knowing the background of people in general and their privacy concerns online. In the past, there have been many people and groups stating that people did not really care that much about their privacy online, which to me seems pretty odd. Whether or not these conclusions […]

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term “cracker”, it simply consists of people breaking into computers for illegal reasons and malicious intent. So when you hear the government goes to crackers for help, you can’t help but wonder where the government will go to for help. The case where the […]

There’s a nice feeling that comes with being anonymous on the web. Ads and websites have troubles tracking you, which gives you a nice sense of privacy on the web. That’s where the Tor network comes into play. Many people constantly use it on a daily basis to stay anonymous on the […]

Did you know that Google can link the searches you made right back to you? If this comes as news to you, you’ll be happy to hear that Google is going to start anonymizing the data they collect from users. While they will still be able to pinpoint you for your searches, they […]

While the article is primarily focused on Canadian residents, I would not be surprised at all to hear more articles like this in the United States. Then again, US credit card companies such as Visa are already working further securing their cards by embedding chips so that theft and counterfeiting becomes extremely difficult. It just […]

It all has to do with their WGA, or Windows Geniune Advantage. Everyone who has a Windows OS has probably stumbled into this, but what they might not know is that it will always phone home to Microsoft, no matter if you accept or cancel the installation. The purpose of this is to […]

While Google was able to quickly patch the security vulnerability in their popular Desktop software, a risk still remains. The risk does not have to do with a vulnerability though, it has to do with the software itself. Just the idea of intermixing the Web and someone’s private hard drive together screams security […]

If you are one of those people who are concerned about your privacy online, this should definitely get your attention. A representative from Texas has recently introduced a bill which is supposed to combat child pornography, but it will also make ISPs track their users. The information that ISPs would track on you […]

It happens all the time; hackers and identity thieves dive into your trash and recycling to gather sensitive and confidential information. The odd thing is that things have really not been changing. While businesses encourage all their employees to recycle every time they can, they never discuss what to do with the information […]