Secret IT Business Phil Zimmerman is well aware that his encryption software is as attractive to potential terrorists as it is to human rights groups. When it went after suspected money launderers in Operation Casablanca last year, the U.S. Customs Service used about 80 suspicious activity reports filed by banks under a 1974 law to identify their bank accounts. Anonymity Is Not Always Secure. The recent plans to give ASIO access to taxation and financial transaction records pose little apparent threat to privacy and civil rights, suggests Geoffrey Barker. To Offer Privacy Tools Melissa Stopped At Little Cost.
Congressional reps call for stronger privacy protection, but how to do it causes sparks.
When Privacy Is More Perilous Than The Lack Of It. Hidden in the Microsoft Word document that carried the Melissa virus around the world last week was an innocuous serial number that helped federal agents identify the computer responsible for the program. To Monitor Communications With Electronic Surveillance. Australia - Net Rights Watchdog Slams Code Of Practice. With 'freedom' Big Brother is lurking in the electron.