Privacy

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  • Crypto for the people

    In Steven Levy's new book, paranoid freedom fighters armed with weapons of encryption face off against Big Brother.
    By Andrew Leonard January 24, 2001

  • Is John Ashcroft a geek's best friend?

    The pro-life, pro-Confederacy, pro-guns attorney general nominee is also pro-privacy.
    By Damien Cave January 5, 2001

  • The medical privacy debate

    Do Clinton's new guidelines go far enough?
    By Dawn MacKeen December 21, 2000

  • Mano a mano with John McCain

    At a committee hearing on online privacy, the senator asks me some tough questions and doesn't like what he hears.
    By Simson Garfinkel October 6, 2000

  • Defanging Carnivore

    A security specialist explains why his open-source version of the FBI's snooping technology is a victory for privacy fans.
    By Sean Dugan September 25, 2000

  • A bug in the legal code?

    By Damien Cave
    By September 18, 2000

  • Put that silicon where the sun don't shine

    By Katharine Mieszkowski
    By September 11, 2000

  • Salon Technology on "Beyond Computers"

    Salon Technology writers talk about online privacy and kiddie-porn hysteria.
    By August 31, 2000

  • Leggo my data!

    Web surfers want privacy online, but a new study shows they can't tell a cookie from a Cocoa Puff.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski August 21, 2000

  • Can a labeling system protect your privacy?

    One good look at the White House's implementation of P3P throws into question the value of the whole privacy initiative.
    By Simson Garfinkel July 11, 2000

  • Stalked by my birth mother

    I didn't want to be her baby, not now, maybe never.
    By Beth Broeker May 8, 2000

  • They know where you live

    While you're busy bickering about what happens to personal data online, the post office is selling your new home address to junk mailers.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski April 20, 2000

  • The privacy police?

    TRUSTe CEO Bob Lewin explains how even sites selling personal data can get the nonprofit's privacy seal of approval.
    By Lydia Lee March 13, 2000

  • "Opt-in rules!"

    How does 24/7 Media CEO David Moore target ads without raising the ire of privacy activists? He asks permission.
    By Lydia Lee March 6, 2000

  • Should your boss know about those visits to the shrink?

    Employers sniffing through medical records, would-be forgers having UPS deliver your signature -- Simson Garfinkel reveals a world rife with privacy violations in "Database Nation."
    By Thomas Scoville March 1, 2000

  • You said what?!

    ENow wants to track every word you type in a chat room and peruse the results to divine the "global collective consciousness."
    By Janelle Brown February 25, 2000

  • Seductive seafood

    Spicy, tangy and oozing, cebiche makes a great aphrodisiac. At least that's what Jorge whispered to me, across the table from my parents.
    By Michele Back February 25, 2000

  • "Excuse me, are you human?"

    How do you know your new e-mail pen pal isn't an intelligent agent?
    By Simson Garfinkel January 25, 2000

  • Your boss may be monitoring your e-mail

    Personal computers were supposed to liberate the workplace. So why do so many companies use them to spy on workers?
    By Maura Kelly December 8, 1999

  • Honesty is the best policy

    RealNetworks is the latest company to expose personal data but escape action by TRUSTe. Does the privacy watchdog ever bite?
    By Kaitlin Quistgaard November 9, 1999

  • Is the Net in your locker room?

    Privacy abuses abound on the Internet -- but so far, the government doesn't appear to care.
    By Maura Kelly November 2, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    Do Web sites want a community they can't control? Plus: Misplaced sympathy in Matthew Shepard murder; Mr. Blue should recognize teen's privacy.
    Letters to the Editor October 27, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    Why the GOP likes big, bad Pat Buchanan; the sex industry needs Susie Bright's enlightenment; e-mail is no place for a secret!
    Letters to the Editor September 13, 1999

  • Holey Hotmail

    If the biggest free e-mail service can't keep our mail private, forget about moving all our data onto the Web.
    By Scott Rosenberg September 1, 1999

  • The sounds of science

    British electronic musician Scanner's illicit phone taps examine the technology of communication and the vanishing border between public and private space.
    By Andy Battaglia August 5, 1999
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