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Arny Against Spyware
Styrian Governor in California made a big step towards a privacy of personal information by setting fines for sypware, which can be quite a serious privacy threat and not such a small nuisance to PC users. Read more …
If privacy in cyberspace is of any interest to you, go visit my friend’s new website (Slovenian site but has some links to interesting English stuff). Matej is the most devoted and deeply engaged advocate of privacy and surveillance issues of the information age in Slovenia. In the 2003 he published a book, titled Privacy on the Internet (Zasebnost na Internetu). It deals with an uprising problem of privacy in contemporary information and consumer society, and thus especially with the problem of privacy on the internet, which is treated in sociological, legal and also technical sense. There is also a practical aspect to the book, as it describes some concrete examples of possible privacy abuses and some protecting techniques. It was published in Slovenian and English language. But Matej is not only active in his writing. He indeed goes out to Slovenian telecommunication companies that actually violate the privacy laws and fight them. He’s just about to get his doctorate on the subject.
Anyway, the Terminator is going to terminate them all again - the sypware this time!
By | January 1, 2005 | Topics: Uncategorized |