Corporate spies are using covert JavaScript code within email to track the contents of sensitive financial communications. That's the warning from managed service provider Activis which said that it is seeing increasing use of malicious JavaScript coding to create Web bug that spy on Internet traffic. These Web bugs can be embedded into HTML based emails before they are sent. The code then acts to covertly copy the original sender each time this email is forwarded on within the recipient's system.
Net sparks call for privacy laws .
Americans want laws to protect their private information, even at the cost of restricting public access and free press, a new survey shows. Such privacy fears, fueled by the availability of information on the Internet, could lead to new restrictions that handcuff journalists, said Ken Paulson, executive director of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University. A center survey, done with the American Society of Newspaper Editors, which met this week in Washington, found that people were as concerned about privacy as they were about such issues as health care and the future of Social Security. All rights reserved. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.