Tag: privacy
Obama administration pushes for legislation on student data privacy
By Christi Parsons (TNS) WASHINGTON — The White House began pushing Thursday for legislation to protect the online privacy of students, allowing them to do...
Security flatlines with the discovery of Heartbleed
Whether we like it or not, we put a lot of trust and faith into the systems that carry our personal information. Our phones,...
Supreme court decision on search warrants is chipping at privacy
Body armor. Semi-automatic rifles. Armored vehicles. Lack of warrants. This all currently describes America’s militarized police stratagem. The ruling of Fernandez v. California asserts that warrants...
I.T. warns of potential breaches to prevent monitoring of emails
CSUN continues to closely monitor incoming emails in the midst of persistence by hackers who break into servers. After a cheating scandal hit Harvard, a...
Don’t fool yourself, It’s not private
It's impossible to graduate college without the Internet. It's almost as hard to maintain a social life without it. Search engines are replacing encyclopedias...
Google Buzz lawsuit settlement gives students privacy control
Google Inc. was recently sued and settled a lawsuit concerning alleged privacy violations, according to an e-mail sent on Nov. 2 to all Gmail...
Google Buzz faces privacy backlash
Last week, the Google war-machine released its latest weapon in the microblogging turf-war. Its name, Google Buzz, sounds less like a jolting juggernaut and...