Well As Well As Windows . The device can penetrate even heavy clothing to detect respiration and movements of as little as a few millimeters. This Laptop Will Self-Destruct . Washington Post - Credit Firm Told to Stop Selling Data . A federal appeals court in the District has ruled that one of the nation's largest credit bureaus must stop selling lists based on loan information from credit reports, a decision legal specialists said yesterday affirmed the government's authority to guard the privacy of financial data.
Marketers use the lists to profile potential customers and target promotions.
Computerworld - Privacy advocates say amended spam bill lacks teeth . But then some trade associations complained, and shortly thereafter the bill was amended in a congressional committee, stripped of some of its enforcement strengths. Privacy advocates now say the changes have taken the teeth out of the bill, and they are lining up to fight back. In the age of computer networks that connect everyone and everything, privacy threats once seen as the stuff of science fiction now loom large, from individual identity theft to data trade wars between nations. Feds fail to protect privacy on Web sites .